A powerful 1970s moment in Uganda 🇺🇬
Princess Bagaya greeting Idi Amin — a snapshot that continues to spark debate, curiosity, and reflection decades later. History lives in moments like these.
What are your thoughts on this era?
#UgandaHistory #AfricanHistory #PrincessBagaya #IdiAmin #ThrowbackAfrica #1970s #HistoricalMoments #EastAfrica #TBT #HistoryMatters
Let's boycott and stop capitalizing france, the uk, spain, portugal, holland/netherlands, belgium for murdering etc African peoples and brazil, japan, russia. for murdering etc non white peoples.
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#blackhistory #africanhistory #brazilianhistory #europeanhistory #blackmastodon
Kenyans mourn one of last Mau Mau rebellion leaders http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TQz0nZ #Kenya #MauMau #AfricanHistory #Resistance #IndependenceMovements
Heute vor 40 Jahren starb Cheikh Anta Diop in #Dakar – eine Erinnerung an den streitbaren & umstrittenen senegalesischen #Historiker & Anthropologen, Physiker & Politiker:
▶ Brigitte Reinwald, »Die Sorge, #Afrika seine Wirklichkeit zurückzugeben« – Biographische Anmerkungen zu #CheikhAntaDiop, #WerkstattGeschichte 9/1994, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/afrika-europa
#histodons #Postcolonial #AfricanHistory #Afrocentricity #Anthropologie #Anthropology #Senegal
Africa: How Murtala Muhammed's Legacy for Nigeria and Africa Has Thrived for Five Decades: [This Day] Five decades after his assassination, General Murtala Ramat Muhammed has remained one of Nigeria's most consequential leaders. As the country prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of his passing on February 13, renewed reflections on his short but defining rule highlight how he reshaped Nigeria's dom http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TQlFvT #MurtalaMuhammed #Nigeria #AfricanHistory #Leadership #Legacy
The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife (Nick Broomfield S. Africa Documentary) | Real Stories
🦁🏛️ The pylon of the Lion Temple at Naga demonstrates how ancient Nubian rulers used monumental architecture to express sacred authority and kingship.
Lions framed space, power, and protection in stone.
#AncientHistory #Nubia #AfricanHistory #Brewminate
https://brewminate.com/the-pylon-of-the-ancient-nubian-lion-temple-at-naga/
BTW, there's a sale on this audiobook right now:
https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9780063335448-an-african-history-of-africa
Africa: Dynamics of 60 Years of Recidivist Political Instability: [This Day] Africa is like a beautiful damsel any good gentleman can seek to court by all means because Africa is beautiful in various ramifications. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TQRfZP #Africa #PoliticalInstability #RecidivistPolitics #AfricanHistory #Leadership
Africa: Has Africa Come of Age Now?: [This Day] On Sunday, January 11, it was exactly 50 years that former Head of State General Murtala Mohammed made an anti-imperialist statement at a summit of African leaders in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. He was killed in an abortive coup on a Lagos street 33 days later, on February 13, 1976. He was succeeded by General Olusegun Obasanjo. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TQMbN4 #Africa #AfricanHistory #MurtalaMohammed #Leadership #AntiImperialism
CPA Tourcoing Le Chateau du Congo www.cpaphil.com/prod... #Tourcoing #ChateauDuCongo #ColonialHistory #BelgianCongo #HistoricalPostcard #VintagePostcard #AfricanHistory #ColonialArchitecture #HeritageSite #OldPhotography #Early20thCentury
CPA Tourcoing Le Chateau du Congo
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CPA Militaria Congo Officier de la force publique
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#VintagePostcard #CPA #MilitariaPostcard #CongoHistory #ForcePublique #ColonialMilitaria #MilitaryHistory #AfricanHistory #HistoricPostcard #AntiquePostcard #PostcardCollectors
The story of religion in Africa isn’t one of erasure, but of adaptation. 🌍🔥
Traditional African religions and Christianity blended through syncretism, creating spiritual systems rooted in survival and continuity.
Africa: The History of the Zambezi River Is a Tale of Culture, Conquest and Commerce: [The Conversation Africa] The Zambezi is Africa's fourth longest river, flowing through six countries: Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, where it becomes the largest river to flow into the Indian Ocean. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TPlhzX #ZambeziRiver #Africa #AfricanHistory #Culture #Conquest
Credit @__african__motivation
Miriam Makeba speak 🗣
#africa #afrique #african #afro #afroamerican #blackamericans #__african__motivation #miriammakeba #westafrica #southafrica #northafrica #eastafrica #centralafrica #africanhistory #africandiaspora #europe #whitesupremecy
The One-Eyed #African Queen Who Defeated the #RomanEmpire
Cocky male monarchs underestimated #QueenAmanirenas for her gender, her race, and her disability. Each time, they did so at their own peril.
Adhiambo Edith Magak
Sep 22, 2021
Excerpt: "The legendary Roman emperor #CaesarAugustus was on the Greek island of Samos, preparing for an important expedition to Syria, when he received envoys from the Kingdom of #Kush, in present-day #Sudan. Journalist Selina O’Grady records in her book And Man Created God that the ambassadors presented Augustus with a bundle of golden arrows and relayed this message: 'The Candace sends you these arrows.' (Candace was the Latinized spelling of #Kandake, the Kushite term for 'queen.')
"They added that the emperor had two options for how to view the offering: 'If you want peace, they are a token of her warmth and friendship. If you want war, you will need them.'
"For an African queen to give such an ultimatum to the most powerful man in the world would have been considered a serious insult. After all, #Augustus had almost single-handedly transformed #Rome from a republic to an empire, and the territory he now reigned over stretched from as far as northern Spain, through to parts of central Europe, and all the way to Egypt. His legions wore bronze breastplates and wielded spears, swords and javelins, all much superior to the hatchets the #Kushites carried as weapons. In addition, Kush had many natural resources — such as gold mines, iron and ivory — that could have enriched the treasuries of Rome, enticing Augustus to attack, even without the insult.
"But this Kushite queen — whom the Greek geographer and historian Strabo of Amasia described as 'a masculine sort of woman and blind in one eye' — had proved to be a formidable foe for the 'son of god,' the title given to Caesar Augustus on Roman coins. He received the bundle of arrows from the envoys and promptly signed a peace treaty.
"In truth, this was not so much a treaty as it was a surrender. Augustus submitted to all of the demands made by Queen #Amanirenas, including that the Romans withdraw from all Kushite territories they had occupied and pledge that they would never again seek to collect taxes or tributes from her kingdom.
"It was a remarkable concession for the world’s most powerful man, demonstrating just how feared and respected the one-eyed queen truly was."
Read more / listen:
https://www.narratively.com/p/the-one-eyed-african-queen-who-defeated-the-roman-empire
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/PGd0v
FEATURED JOB: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, AFRICAN AMERICAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES, University of California - Davis
#education #academia #history #africanamericanhistory #africanhistory
Moroccans mark 50th anniversary of Green March into Western Sahara http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TP768Z #GreenMarch #WesternSahara #Morocco #AfricanHistory #Colonialism
