Controversial actress and Social Media influencer Rosemond Alade popularly called Akuapem Poloo on Tuesday June 30th 2020, celebrated her son’s birthday by going naked in front of the small boy. In a photo cited by African-Research.com on her Instagram handle, the controversial lady said Powerful words to her son recounting her delivery experience. Many Ghanaians […]
Monthly Archives: June 2020
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Doreen Wilhelmina Akua Andoh joined Joy FM as one of the Pioneering presenters at the newly created station as show host in 1995 and has since hosted the station’s brunch time program, ‘Cosmopolitian Mix’ which airs 10am – 12pm Weekly. Arguably the most outstanding female private radio station presenter, Doreen got to Joy FM in […]
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His Majesty Dr. Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, King of Tooro Kingdom in Uganda was born on 16th April 1992. When his father, Patrick David Matthew Rwamuhokya Kaboyo Olimi III passed away on 26th August 1995, the 3-year old Prince ascended the throne on 12th September 1995, entering the Guinness Book of World Records […]
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Toro Kingdom was part of the large empire of Kitara, under the reign of the Babiito dynasty, which dates back to the 16th century. Oral History has it that Prince Olimi Kaboyo Kasunsunkwanzi, son of the king of Bunyoro Kingdom, annexed the southern province of his father’s kingdom and declared himself king of this land, […]
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Jun
July 4, 1968 Accra recorded its heaviest rainfall in 9 years (since 1959). Accra registered a record rainfall of five inches in the last nine years. A spokesman for the Meteorological Services said the heaviest rain ever recorded in the city fell in June 1959, when a volume of 7.56 inches was registered. The rain […]
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Though exact totals will never be known, the transatlantic slave trade is believed to have forcibly displaced some 12.5 million Africans between the 17th and 19th centuries; some 10.6 million survived the infamous Middle Passage across the Atlantic. Though descendants of these enslaved Africans now make up considerable segments of the population in the United […]
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Under German colonial rule, natives were routinely used as slave labourers, and their lands were frequently confiscated and given to colonists, who were encouraged to settle on land taken from the natives; that land was stocked with cattle stolen from the Herero and Namas. When Germany struggled to become a belated colonial power in the […]
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Racism in German history is intricately linked to the Herero and Namaqua genocide in colonial times. Racism reached its peak during the Nazi regime which eventually led to a program of systematic state-sponsored murder known as The Holocaust. (A conscious extirpation of European Jews) According to reports by the European Commission, milder forms of racism […]
PAN-AFRICANISM, RESEARCH
The United States of America Police Departments Have 400-Year History of Racism
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There was no place to hide, no place to truly be safe. Across the U.S., black Americans lived in fear of law enforcement officials armed with weapons who monitored their every behavior, attacked them on the street and in their homes, and killed them for the slightest alleged provocation. These organized groups of white men […]
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Racism, also called racialism, is any action, practice, or belief that reflects the racial worldview—the ideology that humans may be divided into separate and exclusive biological entities called “races”; that there is a causal link between inherited physical traits and traits of personality, intellect, morality, and other cultural and behavioral features; and that some races […]
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There were other models before her, but none crossed over into the mainstream. In 1950s America Helen Williams became the first black female fashion model to do just that. Born in East Riverton, New Jersey in 1937, she was obsessed with clothes from an early age, and began sewing her own garments at the age […]
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The Olmec culture was Mesoamerica’s first great civilization. It thrived along Mexico’s Gulf coast from approximately 1200 – 400 B.C. and is considered the “mother culture” of societies that came later, such as the Maya and Aztec. Many of the intellectual accomplishments of the Olmec, such as a writing system and calendar, were eventually adapted […]
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The Olmec were the first civilization in the Americas {Not the first people}. When they arrived is not known, but a guess of 8,000-4000 B.C. should do. Recent research suggests that the Olmec had their roots in early farming cultures of Tabasco, which began between 5100 BCE and 4600 BCE. These shared the same basic […]
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Jun
The 46-year-old was known to friends as “Big Floyd” and had moved to Minneapolis to find work. George Floyd’s death has sparked protests across the US, with demonstrators desperately calling for an end to police violence. Mr Floyd was an unarmed black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for […]