Queen Amanirenas: The Nubian Queen Who Defeated the Romans

The Romans had been a powerful force in the ancient world, and they had conquered many territories throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. They were known for their advanced military tactics and their ability to defeat… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… The Kingdom Of Kush: History and Civilization of Ancient Nubia
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Kush was also called Nubia because of its: Rich Gold mines. Around 700 BC, two empires ruled the earth – the Assyrian Empire and the Kingdom of Kush.

African women were never seen as sex objects until foreigners influences.
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In pre-colonial worldview, women were never seen as sex objects. That's why many traditional photographs show women posing half-naked with less care in the world as such has been their life. #Africa





Being ashamed of one's body began with the teachings of Christianity and the colonial school system, life styles, introduction of sex through media, Hollywood and such.

"AFRICAN NAIVETY BEGAN IN ANCIENT TIMES"
-Prof. John Henrik Clark

'Never make a stranger suffer and whatever else you may do to a stranger, do not kill him... For he knows not the laws by which you live' -Oba Ewuare of the Benin Empire, 1470 CE.
#Africa There was always the error among Africans that other peoples around the world share the same values with them. According to Historian, Prof. John Henrik Clark, "the African would feed a stranger before he thinks of the children's meal..." It was cultural.

During the Eritrea war of independence over 30% of Eritrean Freedom Fighters during Eritrea's war of independence were women.

The Eritrean War of Independence was a conflict fought between Ethiopian governments and Eritrean independence fighters from 1 Sept 1961 to 24 May 1991. Eritrea had become part of Ethiopia after World War II, upon the defeat of Italy and both territories were liberated from Italian occupation.

This was the history they never taught under AFRICAN HISTORY on MUAMMAR GADDAFI .

Below are 16 things Col. MUAMMAR GADDAFI did under his rule.

1. There was no electricity bill in Libya, electricity was free for all its citizens during Gaddafi's reign. #Africa 2. There was no interest on loans, banks in Libya were state-owned and loans were given to all its citizens at 0% interest by law.

3. Gaddafi vowed that his parents would not get a house until everyone in Libya had a home. Gaddafi and his family lived in a tent during his reign.

Earth Castles, Togo 🇹🇬
The Batammariba people, whose name means "those who model the earth", live in north-eastern Togo and are known for making remarkable mud tower-houses (Takienta) which have come to be seen as a symbol of Togo. #Africa Many of the buildings are two storeys high and those with granaries feature an almost spherical form above a cylindrical base. Some of the buildings have flat roofs, others have conical thatched roofs.

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Why did the African Empires Fall?
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Most African society were mostly focus on spirituality than Military, unlike the European who focused mostly on military and also that believed that "what is mine is mine, and what is yours is mine if I can take it". Mansa Musa went round the world sharing Gold and showcasing is wealth and resources, which attracted most Europeans to come than to Afrika to explore and also try to take these resources by force.
Meanwhile Afrika didn't take military serious unlike spirituality.

The Bantu Expansion & kingdoms
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Is a concurrent dispersal of Bantu languages and Bantu-speaking people from an ancestral homeland situated in the Grassfields region in the borderland between current-day Southern Nigeria and Cameroon (Around the Cross River) c. 3000 BCE – 1500 CE During their initial migration across most of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa, which took place between approximately 5,000 and 1,500 years ago, Bantu speech communities not only introduced new languages in the areas where they immigrated but also new lifestyles.

Ancient African Civilization (Astronomy)
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Based on the translation of 14 Timbuktu ancient manuscripts, Timbuktu astronomical science during the 12th–16th centuries:
They made use of the Julian Calendar, Generally speaking they had a heliocentric view of the solar system. Diagrams of planets and orbits made use of complex mathematical calculations, Scientists developed an algorithm that accurately oriented Timbuktu to Mecca.
They recorded astronomical events, including a meteor shower in August 1583.

African King who Developed writing Alphabet for his Kingdom.
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King Ibrahim Mbouombouo Njoya (1867-1933) of Bamum, Western Cameroon, he had 600 wives and 117 children, with fear that important historical facts of the Bamum could be erased/corrupted... He developed the Bamum alphabet of 70 symbols and a writing system to preserve his kingdom's oral history which the French later destroyed.

Akwa Akpa Kingdom (Ata Akpa)
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Akwa Akpa, known to European as Old Calabar or Duke Town, was an Efik city-state that flourished in the 17th to 19th century in what is now southern Nigeria. By the 19th Century they had become a power on the coast of the Bight of Biafra. The Efik speak a language in the Obolo subgroup of the Niger–Congo language group. Ancient Efik people engage mostly in trading fish, palm oil and palm wine in along the coast mostly with their Portuguese / kongo Kingdom in exchange for guns and clothing in the early 1600s.

The Aksumite Empire
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a trading empire centered in today Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Yemen and Somaliland. It existed approximately 400BCE -10 CentAD, growing from the Iron Age proto-Aksumite period c. fourth century BC to achieve prominence by the first century AD. Prospering thanks to agriculture, cattle herding, and control over trade routes which saw gold and ivory exchanged for foreign luxury goods, the empire's capital was located at Axum kingdom built lasting stone monuments and achieved a number of firsts.

African Sahara Desert History
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The Sahara was once a lush and fertile environment sustaining a diversified human population, fauna, and flora, the Sahara experienced an irreversible process of desertification from 3000 BCE onward. Since then, two events significantly marked the history of the Sahara which is introduction of camel in the 1st cent. A.D. and facilitated occupation by nomads. Today Sahara is the largest desert in the world covering Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritnia, Morocco..

The Rise Of Warri Kingdom
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The Kingdom of Warri is a traditional state based on the town of Warri in Delta State, Nigeria. Warri is an inland port on one of the Niger River channels in the Niger Delta. The Olu (king) of Warri is the head of the Itsekiri people. According to Bini and Itsekiri histories Ginuwa, a prince of Benin founded the Iwerre (Warri) Kingdom about 1480. In the 15th century Warri was visited by Portuguese missionaries.

Queen Idia, The First Queen Mother Of The Benin Kingdom.
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Ending 15th Cent, the kingdom of Benin was plunged into a state of unrest when Oba Ozolua died. He left two powerful sons who were said to have been born on the same day which bring a dispute on who to succeed him. One son, Esigie controlled Benin City, while the other son, Arhuaran, was based in the equally important city of Udo. Neither prince was prepared to yield to the other and soon after, a war ensued. The war severely compromised the kingdom of Benin’s status as a regional power.

Ancient West African kingdoms Arts.
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Ancient West African were skilled potters and metalworkers. Some of them worked with brass, woods,bronze and gold which explain their history. Potters in the kingdom of Nok made sculptures from a clay called terracotta. They created figures of men and women with very large heads. Many of the figures had elaborate hairstyles and wore delicate jewellery. The kingdom of Ife was famous for its sculptures made from brass. Brass-workers made figures of gods, humans and animals.

Today Nigeria is one of Humanities Oldest Locations.
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Credible information gotten from archaeological sites states that Nigeria has an indication of human life that goes back as early as 11,000 BC. The remains of an ancient skulls were found in Iwo Eleru, neighbouring Akure. And also the first and oldest noticeable sign of civilization found in the country was the Nok civilization, which started about 3500 BC–200 AD existed in Northern Nigeria according to its cravens dating.

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African Moors who introduced learning and civilization in Spain.
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The Moors began invading Spain around 711 AD when an African army, under leader Tariq ibn-Ziyad, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar from North Africa invading the Iberian peninsula ‘Andalus’ (Spain under Visigoths). Tarik Ibn Zayid led 300 Arabs and 6700 Africans in conquering Spain around 700 A.D.

A European scholar sympathetic to the Spaniards remembered the conquest in this way: 📸 And second image from Alfonso X description. 📷

Ancient Africans Civilization
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By the 3rd century BC, the city of Carthage on the coast of Tunisia was very wealthy and impressive
It had a population between 700,000 and 1million people. Lining both sides of the streets were rows of tall houses six storeys high founded 800 BC. Carthage was later conquered and destroyed by the Romans in 146 BC. It was rebuilt by the Romans and occupied by early Arab conquerors.

By 1400s they had created a wealthy kingdom with a powerful ruler, known as the Oba. The Obas lived in beautiful palaces decorated with shining brass. The world famous bronzes of Benin Kingdom, carted away by the British in 1897 after pillaging the capital destroying the palace. How the Benin Kingdom bronzes challenged the primitive European and Victorian notions when they were displayed in London in the 1890s..