Category : International

Alexandre Sabès Pétion (b. 2 April 1770; d. 29 March 1818), President of Haiti (1807–1818). Born in Port-au-Prince to a mulatto mother and a wealthy...

By Alden Young March 8, 2022 Alden Young is an assistant professor of African American studies and a member of the International Institute at UCLA....

Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, Kenya (Africa) in 1940. The first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree. Wangari...

Julius Malema, in full Julius Sello Malema, (born March 3, 1981, Seshego township, South Africa), South African politician known for his fiery outspoken nature and...

British South Africa Company (BSAC, BSACO, or BSA Company), a mercantile company based in London that was incorporated in October 1889 under a royal charter...

Cetshwayo kaMpande also spelled Cetewayo, (born c. 1826, near Eshowe, Zululand [now in South Africa]—died Feb. 8, 1884, Eshowe), last great king of the independent...

Anglo-Zulu War, also known as Zulu War, decisive six-month war in 1879 in Southern Africa, resulting in British victory over the Zulus. During the second...

Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo succeeded Cetshwayo as king of the Zulu nation in 1884. At the time, Zululand was experiencing a process of national disintegration. After the...

King Hintsa was born in 1789 and died a painful and brutal death on the 12th February 1835 along the banks of Nqabara river (Lower...