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“Africa was never 'discovered'. Rather, it was Africans who found that there was a world beyond their shores.” — Dr. Leakey #BlackArchaeology ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽
Jan 22, 2019 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Yasuke – The Real Life Afro-Samurai

(弥助 or 弥介, 彌助 or 彌介)

He was a Samurai of African origin who served under the Japanese hegemon and warlord Oda Nobunaga in 1581 and 1582.

bit.ly/2FV84Pp 400 years ago in Japan, on March 23, 1581, foreigners in large black ships came from a far-off land, seeking to convert the Japanese natives to their religion, along with them was a black page in their employ.
Jan 4, 2019 • 30 tweets • 15 min read
The Gullah: Rice, Slavery, and the Sierra Leone-American Connection

“The #Gullah are directly descended from the slaves who labored on the rice plantations, and their language reflects significant influences from #SierraLeone and the surrounding area.”

glc.yale.edu/gullah-rice-sl… They speak a creole language similar to Sierra Leone Krio, use African names, tell African folktales, make African-style handicrafts such as baskets and carved walking sticks, and enjoy a rich cuisine based primarily on rice.
Dec 30, 2018 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
From African Prince to Mississippi Slave: Abdul Rahman Ibrahima

In the summer of 1829, Abdul Rahman Ibrahima returned to Africa after 40 years of enslavement in the United States. Having obtained his freedom via the agency of President John Quincy Adams, he set off on the voyage that was supposed to take him to his birthplace in Timbuktu, in what is now Mali.
Nov 4, 2018 • 21 tweets • 13 min read
The African Queen Who Put The Fear Of God Into the Roman Empire.

Amanirenas was the queen of the Kingdom of Kush. Her full name and title was #Amnirense qore li kdwe li ("Ameniras, Qore and Kandake").

She reigned from about 40 BCE to 10 BCE.

solarey.net/queen-amaniren… (The Meroitic Stela )

“The Stela is a colossal sandstone stela found at #Hamadab south of the ancient site of Meroë in Sudan. Now kept at the British Museum, the significance resides in the fact that it is inscribed with one of the longest known texts in #Meroitic script.”
Sep 26, 2018 • 34 tweets • 18 min read
How Europe Raped Africa

The Berlin conference of 1884 is where European colonising nations basically carved up Africa. Historians refer to it as “the scramble for Africa”.

#Africa #Europe #WhiteSupremacy The countries represented at the time included Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, #France, #Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, #Russia, #Spain, Sweden-Norway (unified from 1814-1905), #Turkey, and the United States of #America.