Peter Tosh
Peter Tosh, born Winston Hubert McIntosh on October 19, 1944, in Grange Hill, Jamaica, was a pioneering reggae musician and a vocal advocate for social...
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Bob Marley
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Robert Nesta Marley, born on February 6, 1945, in the rural village of Nine Mile, Jamaica, emerged as a transformative figure in music, becoming a...
Rastafari
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Rastafari also spelled Ras Tafari, is a religious and political movement, that began in Jamaica in the 1930s and was adopted by many groups around...
West Indies
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West Indies, Spanish Indias Occidentales, French Indes Occidentales, Dutch West-Indië, crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles (3,200 km) long separating the Gulf of...
Haile Selassie I
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Haile Selassie I, original name Tafari Makonnen, (born July 23, 1892, near Harer, Ethiopia—died August 27, 1975, Addis Ababa), emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to...
The kingdom of Dahomey
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Dahomey, is a kingdom in western Africa that flourished in the 18th and 19th centuries in the region that is now southern Benin. According to...
The scramble for Africa
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The scramble for Africa, a British term coined in 1884, describes the more than twenty-year period when European powers explored, partitioned, and conquered nearly 90...
The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885
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The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 is a pivotal moment in European colonization and the subsequent partitioning of Africa. This conference, convened by German Chancellor Otto...
Benjamin Bradley – The Forgotten Pioneer of Steam Power
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When we think of the history of steam engines, we often think of names like James Watt, Thomas Newcomen, or George Stephenson. These inventors and...
Herman Branson
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Born on 14 August 1914 in Pocahontas, Virginia, Herman Branson was a biophysicist and university president who co-discovered the alpha-helix protein structure. He received a...