History
Rosa Parks: A Black heroine
African-American activist Rosa Parks (1913-2005) famously stood up for the Civil Rights Movement by sitting down in a segregated section of a Montgomery, Alabama...
Tribute to Patrice Lumumba: His last letter
As Africa this week pays tribute to Patrice Lumumba, one of the continent's greatest men of all time, Afrik-News.com brings you an excerpt of...
The ancient coin that gives impetus to China-Africa trade
An ancient Chinese coin that dates from the 15th century, discovered on the northern coast of Kenya, reveals the existence of advanced commercial and...
Nigeria at 50: A celebration of brute life, penury and disillusion
As Nigerians celebrate 50 years of nationhood today, the promise of
independence- a nation of free people living at peace with itself and
neighbours, undergirded by...
Algeria’s Timgad Roman ruins: A “Numidian Pompeii”
The Timgad archaeological site spreads its sumptuous ruins across the Aurès mountains. Listed as a World Heritage site by UNESCO, the ancient Roman city,...
Brazil prioritize relations with Africa
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has made Africa a priority in Brazil’s foreign policy; to help the developing continent build a future...
Rwanda: Political and linguistic change under a prominent leader?
The horrors of the 1994 Rwanda genocide came ended when the RPF- led by U.S. trained Officer Paul Kagame defeated the genocide perpetrators and...
Sahel’s Islamic heritage gets a lease of life
Revered documents of medieval Islam have been getting another chance at life in Africa’s Sahel region. And the site of a great 14th-century mosque...
The great African Meroë empire at the Louvre Museum
Meroë is one of the great kingdoms of ancient Sudan. Next to it was Egypt, another great kingdom. For several centuries, especially the late...
The lost Kingdom of Ife, found in Europe
People of different shades of life have been trouping into the British Museum to see some of the most fascinating display of arts produced...
Harking back to the ghosts of District Six
On the 20th anniversary of the release of Nelson Mandela Stefan Simanowitz reports on the opening of a new theatre rising from the ashes...
Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Fighting and Writing for Justice
Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a fearless anti-lynching crusader, suffragist, women’s rights advocate, journalist, and speaker of international stature. She stands as one of our...
Brown v. Board of Education: The Law, the Legacy
When the Negro writer Ralph Ellison learned of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in May 1954, he exclaimed to a...
Before Rosa Parks there was Claudette Colvin
The American Civil War ended slavery without ending racial prejudice. In the decades that followed, Caucasian Americans passed hundreds of laws (primarily in the...
Rosa Parks: Mother of Civil Rights
Rosa McCauley Parks is known today as the “mother of the civil rights movement” because her arrest for refusing to give up her bus...
Sojourner Truth: Abolishionist and proponent of women’s rights
An ardent abolitionist and a proponent of women's rights, Sojourner Truth (Born: c. 1797; Died: November 26, 1883) found her voice in the early...
Black History Month: The automatic bread-making machine
A century ago, bread bought in stores was handmade, a time and labor-intensive process.
That changed when an African-American food executive from Boston,...
Nelson Mandela’s short walk to freedom remembered
Twenty years ago today, Olive Petersen was part of a 500,000 strong crowd that gathered in front of Cape Town's City Hall to await...
Black History Month: A legacy of struggle and triumph
Each February, Black History Month honors the struggles and triumphs of millions of American citizens over the most devastating obstacles — slavery, prejudice, poverty...
Agora, or an Egyptian revolution
Spanish director Alejandro Amenabar transports the viewer to Egypt in the late fourth century AD, a time when followers of the last ancient Egyptian...
Black African presence in Mexico: A pictorial delight
'The African Presence in Mexico: From Yanga to the Present’ is an exhibition that throws a pictorial light on the history of the black...
The N’ko Alphabet: Literacy by and for West Africans
In October 2009, I came to Mali to learn to read. This may come as a surprise since West Africa is supposedly the world’s...
Coffee: The Ethiopian gift to the world
Kawa, espresso, Turkish coffee, milk shakes, what else? A lot more! The terms used to describe this dark brown concoction are many. The most...
After London and Paris, Venus regains her dignity, but how much?
She was called The Hottentot Venus, for her civil status she was Saartjie (Sara) Baartman. Sent back to South Africa, her homeland, to be...
Ex controversial Sudanese president Jaafar Nimeiri dies
Jaafar Nimeiri, a Sudanese president who halted one of Africa's most brutal civil wars in the 1970s but restarted it a decade later by...
Clint Eastwood – Spike Lee : Racism, Omission or Fact
By the look of things, Clint Eastwood and Spike Lee are no where near conceding to each other as to whose “historical accuracy” is...
15th Century Florence, Apartheid and Xenophobia
The historical Bonfires of the Vanities were curious affairs, in which the more of one's wealth one destroyed in the ritual fire, the higher...
An Ecstasy of Folly, Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity
Who is a true prophet ?
Who has real access to divine realms of knowledge ?
Early Christian communities accused each other’s prophets of...
The Forging of Races
Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600–2000
Colin Kidd University of Glasgow
Colin Kidd University of Glasgow
This book revolutionises our...
Africa’s Political Rhetoric
I am a neophyte in what concerns the analysis of forms of governments and my colleagues must be glad that this article is finally...