Category : International

Menilek II, originally named Sahle Miriam (born August 17, 1844, Ankober, Shewa, Ethiopia—died December 12, 1913, Addis Ababa), was king of Shewa (1865–89) and emperor...

Battle of Adwa, Adwa also spelled Adowa or Italian Adua, (March 1, 1896), military clash at Adwa, in north-central Ethiopia, between the Ethiopian army of Emperor Menilek II and Italian forces. The Ethiopian army’s...

Whether slavery existed within sub-Saharan African societies before the arrival of Europeans is a hotly contested point between Afrocentric and Eurocentric academics. What is certain...

Tens of millions of black Africans were forcibly removed from their homelands from the 16th century to the 19th century to toil on the plantations...

Zumbi dos Palmares was born free in the Palmares region of Brazil in the year 1655, the last of the military leaders of the Quilombo...

The Forgotten Genocide: Remembering the Parsley Massacre In the annals of 20th-century history, countless acts of brutality and violence have been etched into our collective...

Kanaka, (Hawaiian: “Person,” or “Man”), in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, any of the South Pacific islanders employed in Queensland, Australia, on sugar plantations or...

Before the Netherlands abolished slavery in 1863, the country was deeply involved in the transatlantic slave trade. It grew prosperous by selling enslaved people to...

The Shadowy Slave Trade of the Pacific In the sweltering heat of Queensland’s sugarcane fields, a dark chapter of Australian history unfolded—one that echoed the...