Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar. The reign of terror
For centuries, Madagascar was an undiscovered island to foreign invaders. By the…
Queen Abla Pokou: The Queen who sacrificed her son to save the people of Baoule tribe.
Abla Pokou founded the Baoule country in the Ivory Coast around 1770…
Iyoba Idia, the Warroir Queen Mother of the Benin Empire.
Esigie, the Oba of Benin who ruled from 1504 to 1550, was…
African History: Major Isaac Jasper Adaka, a freedom fighter, for the people of Ijaw -Nigeria
Before Ojukwu, there was Boro. Before Biafra, there was the Niger Delta…
why the British exiled Prempeh the first to the Seychelles. -African History
The British forced King Agyemang Prempeh I into exile. His time in…
African History: Josina Muthemba Machel a pivotal player in Mozambique’s independence war
Muthemba was a pivotal player in Mozambique's independence war. She was born…
African History: Untold story of Joseph Laroche, the only black man on Titanic 1912
Many portrayals of the events surrounding the RMS Titanic show only white…
African history: Jean-bedel Bokassa, the Central African Republic emperor who eats parts of his victims.
Jean-Bédel Bokassa, longtime dictator and military leader of the Central African Republic,…
African History: He killed my ma, he killed my pa, But i will vote for him. Charles Taylor- Liberia
On April 26, 2012, Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, became…
African History: Mad Dog of the middle east- Muammar al Gaddafi
Content Warning: Discussions of rather extreme violence, sexual abuse included. “I have…
