The traditional African roots of twerking [Videos]
WEBFeb 14, 2018 · The word was even added to the Oxford dictionary in 2015. Twerking may have gotten its name from the bounce craze of early 1990s New Orleans, but its origins are decidedly African. As Kelechi ...
5 African traditional ceremonial dance styles explained
WEBMar 1, 2018 · As the New Encyclopedia beautifully explains, “In Africa, dance is a means of marking life experiences, encouraging abundant crops, honoring kings and queens, celebrating weddings, marking rites ...
How Michael Jackson struggled with vitiligo and turned white
WEBAug 29, 2018 · The celebrated American singer, songwriter, and dancer, who was one of the most popular entertainers in the world, was diagnosed with vitiligo in 1984. He came public with the condition in 1993 on ...
The real story of the last days of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
WEBAug 27, 2018 · These pieces of evidence ascertain the rumours and justify the belief that Haile Selassie, the last emperor of the 3,000 years old Ethiopian monarchy who ruled for half a century, was indeed ...
How did Africa really get its name? - Face2Face Africa
WEBJun 24, 2018 · For a long time, the origin of the name “Africa” has been a subject of dispute as many historians have not been able to come to an agreement on how the continent got its name. The word ...
The story of Anthony Johnson - Face2Face Africa
WEBJun 5, 2018 · The history of slavery in the Americas has always been marred by its deep racial past. So much so that stories like those of Anthony Johnson, a black man who was one of the first people to legally ...
Africans who played an active role in the Transatlantic slave trade
WEBBetween 1525 and 1866, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to North America, the Caribbean and South America, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. Only about 10.7 million survived ...
The little-known story of Donald J. Harris, father of Kamala Harris
WEBNov 17, 2020 · A baby Kamala Harris with her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, and her paternal grandfather, Oscar Joseph, during a visit to Jamaica. (Courtesy of Kamala Harris) “Nevertheless, I persisted, never ...
How this enslaved man was made to serve as a breeder to …
WEBMar 18, 2021 · 95-year-old Lucille Burden Osborne said while growing up in a house that contained family members who had survived slavery, she heard stories about her great-grandfather, McGruder.
The tragedy of Mahlangu, the South African who was hanged by …
WEBJul 4, 2018 · Solomon Mahlangu was a normal high school student who decided to become a freedom fighter in the 1970s due to the brutality and hardships with which black South Africans were being treated by the ...