Category : International

As Brazil’s sugar economy expanded explosively in the 16th century, the nation’s Portuguese occupiers cultivated a system of plantations that became dependent upon the trafficking...

Bemba, also called Babemba, or Awemba, Bantu-speaking people inhabiting the northeastern plateau of Zambia and neighboring areas of Congo (Kinshasa) and Zimbabwe. The Bantu language of the Bemba has become...

Blaise Compaoré, (born February 3, 1951, Ouagadougou, Upper Volta, French West Africa [now in Burkina Faso]), military leader and politician who ruled Burkina Faso from...

Scholar, playwright, journalist, and African nationalist, Duse Mohamad Ali was born in Alexandria, Egypt on November 24, 1866, to an Egyptian father, Ali Abdul Salam and a Sudanese mother, whose name is...

Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād, also spelled Tarik Ibn Zeyad, (died c. 720), Berber general who led the Muslim conquest of Spain. Mūsā ibn Nuṣayr, the Arab...