The traditional African roots of twerking [Videos]
WEBFeb 14, 2018 · The word was even added to the Oxford dictionary in 2015. Twerking may have gotten its name from the bounce craze of early 1990s New Orleans, but its origins are decidedly African. As Kelechi ...
5 African traditional ceremonial dance styles explained
WEBMar 1, 2018 · As the New Encyclopedia beautifully explains, “In Africa, dance is a means of marking life experiences, encouraging abundant crops, honoring kings and queens, celebrating weddings, marking rites ...
The Truth Behind Black Africans with Blue Eyes - Face2Face Africa
WEBMay 31, 2016 · Professor Hans Eiberg and his team studied this at the University of Copenhagen. They studied the genes of 800 men and women with blue eyes and concluded that all of them had the exact same gene ...
Africans who played an active role in the Transatlantic slave trade
WEBBetween 1525 and 1866, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to North America, the Caribbean and South America, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. Only about 10.7 million survived ...
The real story of the last days of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
WEBAug 27, 2018 · Haile Selassie, born Ras Tafari Makonnen, was everything from monarch to the returned messiah as believed by the Rastafari movement which reveres him as God incarnate. He was also the Chairperson ...
The shocking history of enslavement of 1.5 million white …
WEBMay 30, 2018 · The Barbary pirates captured and sold hundreds of thousands of white Christians into slavery in North Africa from the 16th to 19th century. Learn about the history, causes, and consequences of ...
How did Africa really get its name? - Face2Face Africa
WEBJun 24, 2018 · For a long time, the origin of the name “Africa” has been a subject of dispute as many historians have not been able to come to an agreement on how the continent got its name. The word ...
How black people were eliminated in Argentina throughout history
WEBJun 22, 2018 · This was compounded with the emigration of black people to Uruguay and Brazil, where they felt more welcome. Such systemic elimination of Africans in Argentina has put their population at 149,493 ...
Interesting things about the Somba African tribe
WEBSep 25, 2018 · Learn about the Somba people, also known as Batammariba, who live in Togo and Benin and have a tradition of elongating their penises and building mud houses. Discover their culture, history ...
How this enslaved man was made to serve as a breeder to …
WEBMar 18, 2021 · Charles McGruder was forced to have children with other enslaved women to increase his owner's slave populations. He had up to 100 children and many descendants with the surname McGruder in Alabama.