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GERMANY CALLED IT A COLONIAL WAR. HISTORY CALLS IT GENOCIDE. SO WHY ARE WE STILL AFRAID TO TALK ABOUT IT? GERMANY CALLED IT A COLONIAL WAR. HISTORY CALLS IT GENOCIDE. SO WHY ARE WE STILL AFRAID TO TALK ABOUT IT? Let me say something that might make some people uncomfortable. When Africans fought to defendContinue reading “GERMANY CALLED IT A COLONIAL WAR. HISTORY CALLS IT GENOCIDE. SO WHY ARE WE STILL AFRAID TO TALK ABOUT IT?”

NOVEMBER 12, 1994: BIANCA ONOH MARRIED EMEKA OJUKWU NOVEMBER 12, 1994: BIANCA ONOH MARRIED EMEKA OJUKWU On November 12, 1994, Bianca Onoh married the former Biafran leader, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, in Abuja. Bianca was 27 years old, while Ojukwu was 61, making their age difference about 34 years.Their rel@tionship had actually begun several years earlier.Continue reading “NOVEMBER 12, 1994: BIANCA ONOH MARRIED EMEKA OJUKWU”

THE TRAGIC FALL OF KWAME NKRUMAH — FROM GHANA’S HERO TO EXILE 💔 THE TRAGIC FALL OF KWAME NKRUMAH — FROM GHANA’S HERO TO EXILE Imagine giving your entire life to the freedom of your people… only to one day be told that you can no longer return home. 💔 Kwame Nkrumah was one ofContinue reading “THE TRAGIC FALL OF KWAME NKRUMAH — FROM GHANA’S HERO TO EXILE”

THE NIGERIAN SOLD1ERS WHO MARCHED 1,700 MILES TO LIBERATE ETHIOPIA THE NIGERIAN SOLD1ERS WHO MARCHED 1,700 MILES TO LIBERATE ETHIOPIA When Fascist Italy inv@ded Ethiopia in 1935, it shocked Africans across the world. Ethiopia was one of the few African nations that had successfully resisted Europe@n coloni@l rule, having famously defe@ted Italy at the B@ttleContinue reading “THE NIGERIAN SOLD1ERS WHO MARCHED 1,700 MILES TO LIBERATE ETHIOPIA”

APARTHEID: THE SYSTEM THAT DIVIDED SOUTH AFRICA BY SKIN COLOR 🇿🇦 APARTHEID: THE SYSTEM THAT DIVIDED SOUTH AFRICA BY SKIN COLOR Imagine waking up every morning knowing that the country you were born in did not give you the same rights as someone simply because their skin was a different color. That was apartheid. FromContinue reading “APARTHEID: THE SYSTEM THAT DIVIDED SOUTH AFRICA BY SKIN COLOR”

KWAME NKRUMAH SURVIVED FIVE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS. 🇬🇭 DID YOU KNOW? KWAME NKRUMAH SURVIVED FIVE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS. But the number alone does not tell the story. The deeper question is: Why did so many people want Kwame Nkrumah dead? Nkrumah was not simply a politician. He had helped lead Ghana to independence in 1957 and becameContinue reading “KWAME NKRUMAH SURVIVED FIVE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS.”

THE HISTORY OF THE TOUNKARA / TUNKARA CLAN THE HISTORY OF THE TOUNKARA / TUNKARA CLAN From the royal traditions of Wagadu to the Manding world Across West Africa, the same ancestral name can appear under several spellings: Tounkara, Tunkara, Tonkara, Toungara, Tongara, Tangara, Tancara, Tunkar, Tunkare, Tunkarl and related forms. The surname Tounkara/Tunkara isContinue reading “THE HISTORY OF THE TOUNKARA / TUNKARA CLAN”

FROM A DESERT BOY TO THE MAN WHO RULED LIBYA FROM A DESERT BOY TO THE MAN WHO RULED LIBYA 🇱🇾💔 He was born in 1942 in a poor Bedouin family, far from palaces and power. His name was Muammar Gaddafi. In 1969, at just 27 years old, he led a military coup that overthrewContinue reading “FROM A DESERT BOY TO THE MAN WHO RULED LIBYA”

DID EZE CHIMA HAVE ARO BLOOD? Myth vs. Historical DID EZE CHIMA HAVE ARO BLOOD? Myth vs. Historical Facts. The true identity of Eze Chima—the legendary 16th-century patriarch of the Umu Eze Chima clans (Onitsha, Issele-Uku, Onicha-Ugbo, and Onicha-Olona)—remains one of Nigeria’s greatest historical debates.While authorities like the Esogban of Benin, Chief David Edebiri confirmContinue reading “DID EZE CHIMA HAVE ARO BLOOD? Myth vs. Historical”

STOP SAYING AFRICA BECAME FREE THE DAY EUROPE LEFT. THAT STORY IS TOO COMFORTABLE. STOP SAYING AFRICA BECAME FREE THE DAY EUROPE LEFT. THAT STORY IS TOO COMFORTABLE. Yes, I said it. The colonial flag came down. African flags went up. African presidents entered the presidential palaces. And we were told: “Congratulations. You are nowContinue reading “STOP SAYING AFRICA BECAME FREE THE DAY EUROPE LEFT. THAT STORY IS TOO COMFORTABLE.”