Mau Mau
The Mau Mau movement in Kenya was a significant nationalist armed peasant revolt against the British colonial state and its policies, as well as its...
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Kikuyu
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Kikuyu, also called Gikuyu or Agikuyu, are Bantu-speaking people who live in the highland area of south-central Kenya, near Mount Kenya. In the late 20th...
Kwame Nkrumah
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Kwame Nkrumah, born on September 21, 1909, was a Ghanaian politician and revolutionary who played a significant role in the country’s struggle for independence from...
Henry The Navigator
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A Pioneering Figure in Portuguese Exploration Henry the Navigator, born Henrique on March 4, 1394, in Porto, Portugal, was a Portuguese prince renowned for his...
Cap-Haïtien
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Cap-Haïtien also called Le Cap, city, northern Haiti. Founded in 1670 by the French, the city was then known as Cap-Français and gained early renown...
Toussaint Louverture
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Toussaint Louverture was a key figure in the Haitian Revolution, which ultimately led to the abolition of slavery and the establishment of Haiti as the...
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a key figure in the history of Haiti and played a pivotal role in the country’s struggle for independence. Born into slavery...
Henry Christophe
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Henry Christophe learned everything he knew from experience. A Negro born into a slave family on the island of Grenada, he never went to school...
Royal African Company
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In West Africa, where the tapestry of history was profoundly woven with Europe’s commercial ambitions, a vibrant gold trade flourished long before the Age of...
Windrush
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‘As we passed through the white cliffs of Dover, it was beyond imagination,’ recalls Edwin Hilton Hall, one of several hundred excited West Indian passengers...