Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa
Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa was born on November 17, 1952, in Johannesburg, South Africa, the second of three children of Samuel and Erdmuth Ramaphosa. His family...
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Idi Amin Dada Oumee
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Idi Amin Dada Oumee, often simply known as Idi Amin, remains one of the most notorious figures in modern African history. As the third president...
Segregation in Canada
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A Historical and Contemporary Perspective Segregation in Canada, while often overshadowed by the more overt Jim Crow laws of the United States, was a pervasive...
Lennox Raphael
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A Life in Art, Activism, and Exile Lennox Alison Raphael (September 4, 1939 – November 27, 2023) was a Trinidadian-born poet, playwright, journalist, painter, and...
The West Indian Syndrome
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To Be or Not to Be an American Negro by Lennox Raphael Based on available excerpts, citations in scholarly works, and previews, here’s a comprehensive...
The Stick Boys of Ethiopia’s Banna Tribe
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Grace on Stilts In the sun-baked expanses of Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley, where the Omo and Weyto rivers carve through arid savannas and marshy lowlands,...
The Egypt Plantation
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Thomas Thistlewood’s Domain in Jamaica The Egypt plantation, located in Westmoreland parish in western Jamaica, was the primary site of Thomas Thistlewood’s operations as a...
Thomas Thistlewood
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Thomas Thistlewood (1721–1786) was an English-born planter, slave owner, and prolific diarist whose life in colonial Jamaica provides one of the most detailed—and disturbing—windows into...
Why Didn’t Europeans Use Their Own Local Workforce for Plantations Instead of Enslaving Africans?
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The transatlantic slave trade, spanning from the 15th to the 19th centuries, forcibly transported an estimated 11-12.5 million Africans to the Americas, primarily to work...
Europe’s Colonial Legacy
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A Case for Immigration as Historical Reckoning Europe’s history is indelibly marked by centuries of colonial expansion, during which powers like Britain, France, Spain, Portugal,...