History

Banana Island in Lagos is a Billionaire’s Paradise

Banana Island, which is Nigeria’s answer to Paris’s Seventh Arrondissement, San Diego’s La Jolla, New York…

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How the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Created the African Diaspora

The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the capture, forcible transport, and sale of native Africans to Europeans for lifelong…

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How Nelson Mandela Used Rugby as a Symbol of South African Unity

On June 24, 1995, at Johannesburg's Ellis Park Stadium, South Africa won the Rugby World Cup…

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Nelson Mandela released from prison

Nelson Mandela, leader of the movement to end South African apartheid, is released from prison after 27…

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The Rise and Fall of Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s Longtime Dictator

The 93-year-old president’s 37-year rule ended with a military coup. Robert Mugabe, the deposed president of…

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Robert Mugabe

The leader of Zimbabwe since its independence in 1980, Robert Mugabe (1924-2019) was one of the…

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Idi Amin of Uganda

Idi Amin: Early Life and Military Career Idi Amin Dada…

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Muammar Gaddafi

Muammar al-Qaddafi, also spelled Muammar Khadafy, Moammar Gadhafi, or Muʿammar al-Qadhdhāfī, (born 1942, near Sirte, Libya—died October 20, 2011,…

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Mme. Abomah, The African Giantess who was once the tallest woman in the world

Ella Williams (Mme Abomah) was once the world`s tallest lady in the late 1800`s and early…

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The First ever general election in Nigeria

It was the year 1923 when the country faced its first general elections ever. They happened…

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How Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi Of Benin Was Exiled To Calabar

  At the end of the 19th century, the Kingdom of Benin had managed to retain…

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The History of Cameroon

Cameroon gained its name from what Portuguese settlers had named the River of Shrimp, Rio dos…

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PAST GOVERNORS OF LAGOS STATE

  BABAJIDE SANWO-OLU - 2019 - Current Until his emergence as the Executive Governor of Lagos…

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Archibald Grimke, Journalist born

*Archibald Grimké was born on this date in 1849.  He was a Black lawyer, intellectual, journalist,…

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Lynching Attempted in St. Paul, Minnesota

On Sun, 06.02.1895, a Black man was nearly lynched in St. Paul, MN.   Houston Osborne a young…

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