hey it’s saturday, lets pretend to be a slave for a couple of hours [branding...
According to reports, ‘visitors to Memory Village would decide whether they wanted to be spectators or participants during a twelve-hour day. The latter would receive traditional African clothing and...
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AFRICOM heads for the Gulf of Guinea
The US Africa Command, AFRICOM is reportedly on it’s way to the Gulf of Guinea. I am beginning to feel as if we’ve been projected back in a time machine to the day the Portuguese emissary, Diego de...
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Anastácia Escrava, Muzzled wounds of slavery
Santa Anastacia, Anastácia Escrava, an Angolian princess, kidnapped and forced to become the mistress of her white master in Brazil. There are no words for the horrors and torture, Anastacia had to...
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Al Akhdam out-castes
The NYT publishes a story that highlights the low status of Black people in the Middle East and one of the least discussed histories of Africa and the Arab speaking world, Arab-led slavery. This...
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Billie Holi-DAY
A group of us including Marian of Marian’s Blog have re-named the March 17th Irish holiday “Billie Holi-DAY” to celebrate the forgotten Black people with Irish ancestry wherever they may be. Most...
View ArticleReally, now, why is Africa poor?
Nice excuses do you have more concocted for the next 100 years or so? I mean its been over 50 years and using the same excuse does not attract pity anymore. I mean take the case of India for example,...
View ArticleUK court archives on African history
The central criminal court in London, the Old Bailey has published court records from 1674-1913 online. The database includes records on the lives of Africans and their descendent’s in London. The...
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Africans in Mexico
Haiti is well known as the sight of the first successful slave revolt which resulted in independence in 1804. But African slaves, brought to Mexico by the Spanish in the late 16C , also have a history...
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Black August, birthdays, prisons & assassinations
Nehanda Abiodun celebrates her 58th birthday in Cuba. Like her friend and fellow activist, Black Panther Assata Shakur, Abiodun has been living in exile in Cuba where she set up a branch of the Black...
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Afro Descendants: Brazil “Quilombo Country”
The Afro-Brazilian film “Quilombo Country” is now available to watch on line for 94p or $1.49 I haven’t watched it yet but I have watched some of the short video clips on history, dance and and land...
View ArticleJackson family slave memorial theme park combo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7858010.stm Hello all. I’m testing the waters after a long hiatus from the blogging world. If you haven’t come across this link already you might want to take a look....
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Calabar slave museum
Slavery has always been a near-taboo topic of discussion between Africans and Blacks in the Diaspora. In discussions about slavery, inevitably, the issue of sharing blame always arises. Did Africans...
View ArticleComments: Why Africa is poor
25 Comments http://sotho.blogsome.com/2006/06/20/why-is-africa-poor/trackback/ (This link leads to the original blog post generating the buzz below) 1. I most heartily agree with all of that, only I...
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The Kunlun Servants & African Merchants in Ancient China
In my previous post I mentioned that I had read somewhere that two slaves given as gifts to the a Chinese Emperor by an Arab delegation were the first Africans to enter ancient China. This may have...
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“The last word has not been spoken”– Beah Richards
I’ve watched Beah Richards in many films and I remember reading somewhere about her poetry. But I never knew she was a feminist, wrote powerful political poetry speaking truth to power; was a...
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African migrant workers: trafficked, trapped & left to die on the high seas
I wrote this post in July 2006 but the thousands of African migrant workers who have been displaced and left to die on the high seas after fleeing Libya, reminded me that this is not a new story. I...
View Article“Petrification”– excessive strong adherence to tradition……..being unAfrican
Fanon on Petrification Douglas Ficek (in Living Fanon, p. 76), writing on Fanon and petrification, reminds one that, by “petrification”, Fanon meant an excessively strong adherence to tradition in the...
View ArticleThe Arrogance or Ignorance of Privilege
The 25th of November to the 10th of December marked the annual 16 days of activism against gender based violence, a period designated by the United Nations for continuous lobbying and advocacy,...
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Haiti: From AIDS to Aid, an [Un]Humanitarian Story
The third anniversary on January 12, 2013 of the earthquake in Haiti was marked yet again by a flood of new reports, opinions, facts and figures: a repetition of the past two years in terms of the lack...
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Black History month in unGrand Britannia :
Some excerpts from Black History month in unGrand Britannia : Many people are aware of the Black Panther movement in the US but how many know of the British Black Panthers which had a brief 10 year...
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