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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.”

HistoricityWhy Did the Yoruba Not “Avenge” Fajuyi, Abiola and Kudirat? — A Question Nigeria Must Dare to Ask HistoricityWhy Did the Yoruba Not “Avenge” Fajuyi, Abiola and Kudirat? — A Question Nigeria Must Dare to Ask There is an uncomfortable question buried deep inside Nigeria’s history:Why did the Yoruba political and military establishment not respondContinue reading “HistoricityWhy Did the Yoruba Not “Avenge” Fajuyi, Abiola and Kudirat? — A Question Nigeria Must Dare to Ask”