The ancient remains of Great Zimbabwe
By Zeb Larson26th September 2022 The ancient city of Great Zimbabwe was an engineering wonder. But archaeologists credited it to Phoenicians, Babylonians, Arabians – anyone but the Africans who actually […]
Ibrahim Njoya, the African king who created his own writing system that was destroyed by the French
May 10, 2018 at 02:37 pm | HISTORY MILDRED EUROPA TAYLOR | Head of Content FULL BIOCLOSE FULL BIO Mildred Europa Taylor is a writer and content creator. She loves writing […]
An essential reading list on Black Muslim history
Aisha Yusuff An essential reading list on Black Muslim history Explore the rich history of Black Muslims in these ten books. [Getty] Date of publication: 18 June, 2020 Book Club: […]
This African king ruled over a democratic nation centuries before Abraham Lincoln
Many years before the colonial invasion of Africa, there existed one of the most powerful kingdoms between what is now modern-day Mauritania and Mali, located at the south of the […]
10 African Civilizations More Amazing Than Ancient Egypt
Unknown to most people, hundreds of smaller kingdoms have popped up throughout Africa’s history, with some eventually growing into powerful empires. These vast nations united Africa, managed wealthy trade […]
Fertile African lands colonisers stole from indigenous communities
by Elizabeth Ofosuah Johnson, at 07:00 am, December 07, 2018 By the 15th century, the Europeans were well established in Africa and started to take the lands from […]
The mysterious Imbangala warriors of Angola who established the Kasanje Kingdom in 1620
The Kasanje Kingdom, also known as the Jaga Kingdom, was one of the biggest and most powerful kingdoms in Central Africa in the 17th to early 19th century. Established […]
The First Muslim-American Scholar: Bilali Muhammad
An unfortunate misconception among today’s American Muslim community is that Islam has only been present in America for less than 100 years. Many American Muslims are children of immigrants who came to the United States from the Middle East and South Asia in the mid-nineteenth century, and thus wrongly assume […]
Trade and the Spread of Islam in Africa
Multiple Trajectories of Islam in Africa Islam had already spread into northern Africa by the mid-seventh century A.D., only a few decades after the Prophet Muhammad moved with his followers from Mecca to Medina on the neighboring Arabian Peninsula (622 A.D./1 A.H.). The Arab conquest of Spain and the push […]