The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea
Before the 17th century, people did not think of themselves as belonging to something called the white race. But once the idea was invented, it...
Category : International
Prince Philip on royal duty: In his own words
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Despite the DoE’s many achievements in a long life of service, some will remember him as a man who was often blunt, sometimes to the...
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
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Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, (born March 20, 1870, Saarlouis, Rhine Province, Prussia [now in Germany]—died March 9, 1964, Hamburg), lieutenant colonel commanding Germany’s small African force...
Sergeant Lincoln Orville Lynch
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Sergeant Lincoln Orville Lynch DFM, a West Indian air gunner serving with RAF No 102 Squadron, photographed wearing his flying kit by the rear turret...
Ganga Zumba
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Ganga Zumba was a leader of the quilombo or the Maroon state of Palmares. The little that historians know about him comes from accounts of the Luso-Brazilian...
Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman
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Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman was born in 1789* at the Gamtoos river in what is now known as the Eastern Cape. She belonged to the cattle-herding...
Timbuktu
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Timbuktu (also Timbuctoo) is a city in Mali, West Africa which was an important trade center of the Mali Empire that flourished between the 13th...
Arthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker
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Astrophysicist Arthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 24, 1936, the only child of Cuthbert Walker, an attorney, and native of...
Dr. Ivan Van Sertima
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Ivan Van Sertima was born in Guyana, South America. He was educated at the School of Oriental and African Studies (London University) and the Rutgers...