Abyssinia, also known as the Ethiopian Empire, was a kingdom encompassing what is now Ethiopia plus, later in its history, ...
Decades later, some of them have begun to return to their countries of origin. Across Africa, nations such as Nigeria, Benin, ...
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In the Republic of Benin, the fight for women’s rights and dignity is gaining momentum. Dahoun Nondjinon Landros Biova, a sociologist and anthropologist who leads the (AFSLR-Benin), is one of the ...
The result of these distortions is that when most people think of Africa’s past, they see only pyramids and pharaohs — and imagine them as white. Meanwhile, kingdoms like Kush, Mali, Aksum, Songhai, ...
Yet, in recent decades, there has emerged in the West a perverse distortion of this impulse: the demand for financial ...
The best monologues breathe life into characters, spark cultural conversations, and leave a lasting impression by stirring ...
The British Vice-Consulate for the kingdom of Dahomey was established to suppress the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The documents collected here comprise principally of the journals of the Vice-Consul, ...
The opening of ‘Nigerian Modernism’ at Tate Modern momentarily readjusted London’s cultural temperature, says Funmi Fetto, ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Eva L. R. Meyerowitz photographs, EEPA 1987-009, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Scotland's Kingdom of Kubala has all the hallmarks of a work of fiction. A king dressed head to toe in African dress, a barefoot queen and a face-painted American "maid" who serves her masters. The ...