Ethiopians do joke about other countries in Africa that, “while you celebrate liberation or Independence Day, we Ethiopians celebrate victory day. ” During the wake of scrambling and partition of Africa, sections of communites and kingdoms resisted the occupation and eventual colonisation by European powers. With knowledge of superior weapons the Europeans possessed, and need […]
Jumba la Mtwana is a Kiswahili word meaning “the large house of the slaves .” The site is located on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya, close to Mtwapa Creek, at Malindi in Kilifi county 15 kilometres north of Mombasa. There are four mosques and four houses in the area that have survived the test […]
Though Madagascar is among the poorest countries in the world, the people are among the most friendly people in the world. Madagascar is the world’s fourth largest island. It’s 587,712 square kilometres in size. A person from Madagascar is called a Malagasy. Madagascar is home to 70 species of lemurs found nowhere else on Earth. […]
5,000 years old brewery have been discovered in Egypt by archaeologists, that could produce thousands of litres of beer in the Abydos, an ancient Egyptian city. The site, in Egypt’s Sohag Governorate likely dates back to the reign of King Narmer around 3,100 BC, Reuters reported. Dr. Matthew Adams, one of the leaders of the […]
The Great Zimbabwe is an ancient City that flourished around 12th to mid 15th centuries in Zimbabwe near Lake Mutirikwe and the town of Masvingo. The Kingdom which the city served as headquarter is subject to controversy. The city is believed to have served as Royal Palace for the local monarch. The city was constructed […]
AFP An Egyptian-Dominican archaeological mission working near Alexandria has discovered mummies from around 2,000 years ago bearing golden-tongued amulets, the Egyptian authorities said on Wednesday. “The mission discovered 16 tombs cut into the rock… in the temple of Taposiris Magna, west of Alexandria” in northern Egypt, the antiquities ministry said in a statement, adding that […]
Ntaganda was born in Rwanda in Virunga mountains range in the Musanze District. He fled to Ngugu-Masisi in eastern DRC when attacks on his fellow ethnic Tutsi started in Rwanda. He joined Rwandan Patriotic Front rebels based in Uganda at the age of 17. Ntaganda acquired Congolese citizenship at some point. In the early 1990s […]
Mobutu Sese Seko was born Joseph Désiré Mobutu on 14 October 1930. Mobutu was supported by Belgian government and USA to depose the government of nationalist Patrice Lumumba in 1960. Mobutu installed the government that arranged for the execution of Patrice Lumumba in January 1961 as he was serving as Chief of Staff of the Army appointed […]
According to the Guinness Book of Records, sultan Moulay Ismail ibn Sharif fathered more children than any other man in recorded history. The exact number remains unknown, but there are reports that his 1171st child was born in 1704, while the Guinness Book of Records notes a slightly lower number – 800 children by 1727. […]
Photo Courtesy of Rich Allela Mekatilili wa Menza was a Kenyan fearless leader, who led her people, the Giriama people to resist the British against exploiting them. She was born in Mutsara wa Tsatsu between 1840 and 1860. She was the only girl among five children and was named Mnyazi wa Menza (Mnyazi, daughter of Menza) […]
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