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100 Things You Did Not Know About Life in the Songhai Empire

100 Things You Did Not Know About Life in the Songhai Empire Editorial Staff | February 16, 2015 Next Page 1. West Africa’s Niger River provided bigger and better harvests than the Nile. According to Major Felix Dubois, a pioneering French scholar on the Songhai Empire: ‘What the Nile has done for Egypt,…

African Architecture and Great Black Women of History: October 05, 2014

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Archive for October 5th, 2014 African Architecture Editorial Staff | October 5, 2014 | 0 Comments Share More » African Architecture Share: Email Twitter Facebook Pinterest StumbleUpon Google+ Link: × African Writing Systems Editorial Staff | October 5, 2014 | 0 Comments Share More » African Writing Systems…

African Descendants in Dominican Republic: June 16, 2014

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Archive for June 16th, 2014 Editorial Staff | June 16, 2014 | 0 Comments According to Silvio Torres-Saillant, a leading Dominican studies scholar, “Blacks and mulattoes make up nearly 90% of the contemporary Dominican population; Yet no other country in the hemisphere exhibits greater indeterminacy regarding the population‟s sense of racial identity.” The Dominican Republic was…

1.7 million years of Africans in the ancient Arctic

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1.7 Million Years of Africans in the Ancient Arctic Editorial Staff | April 27, 2014 | 0 Comments Verified weaving of wigs (picture B2), nets, cloth, and baskets dates back 27,000 years ago. And link directly below identifies that population as African. Backup Click.…

100 Things You Did Not Know About Africa and Black People

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Many people have a misconception that Africa has no history, however, studies into history and archeological records has proven that Africa has more rich and great history than what the old historians tried to make us believe. A careful reading of the information below compiled by Dr Robin Walkin makes it abundantly clear that African…