THE G HISTORIAN: June 2014

Monday 23 June 2014

NollyMedia: Nigerian lady found dead in her hostel room in South Africa

Saturday 21 June 2014

George Washington Carver A prominent African

Rise to Prominence

Carver's work at Tuskegee included groundbreaking research on plant biology that brought him to national prominence. Many of these early experiments focused on the development of new uses for crops such as

Richard Nathaniel Wright was born on September 4, 1908 near Natchez, Mississippi. The grandson of slaves and the son of a sharecropper, Wright was largely raised by his mother, a caring woman who became

Oct 3, 2013 via Vanguard News shared the following news n had this to say about it: Gambia pulls out of British Commonwealth-The Gambian government announced Wednesday Oct 2,2013that the former British

OUR CHILDREN AFRICA ARE WISE?

Our children may learn about d heroes of d past. Our task is 2 make ourselves d architects of d future." (Jomo Kenyatta, 1st president of Kenya, 4rm an address given on Kenyatta Day, as quoted in Anita King's

God kept You Alive For A Reason.

Prof. Dora Akunyili... .......died in June 2014
Emir Ado Bayero.............died in June 2014

We Bled Africa

We bled Africa for four and a half centuries. Then we plundered its raw materials; Thereafter, it was said: they [African] are good for nothing.

Abuse Of Authority

Abuse of authority creates a society in which men know most exercise their freedom. The unethical behavior of politicians affects democracy in its foundations. Acts which bear witness to such behavior cannot be

Development Of African

The general observation, the economic development of African countries is lagging behind after decades of independence. However, were applied to the models and ideologies of development. The question is if the

Become Something

Indeed, Africa suffers from an intellectual, demographic and spiritual crisis. Africa dark not only because of bad management and governance of its intellectuals, but because of the evil deeds on that continent also.

Forgiving is not forgetting

Forgiving is not forgetting; it is actually remembering - remembering and not using your right to retaliate.

Sub-Saharan Africa

you have reason to complain Sub-Saharan Africa-but perhaps not for much longer. During the first decade of

Religion

religion is all about what blacks people where leaved with after slavery that made blacks today to be who

Does The European Religion Help An Africa?

does the european religion help an africa?does the american religion help and asia?does religion in other

WHO IS GOING TO BE YOUR DREAM

WHO IS GOING TO BE YOUR DREAM NEXT LEADER IN YOUR COUNTRIES?
someone that let you pray and have all for religion dreams or someone that let you work for the change of life

black people

black people you will pray and take time on religion over the world but you will never got it until you started

My first dream

My first dream to unites africa is to kill african religion..99.99999% africans are religious and 1.9999999 are

Martin jnr,Gadafi,Stephen Biko,Brutus Brutus Ghali,Ajayi Crowther,Malcom X,Fella kuti,Nelson

The Red Sea Was Parted By A Hurricane

The story of Moses is one of the most famous parts of the Old Testament. Over four whole books, we watch Israel’s first prophet grow from an orphaned kid to a crotchety old man stomping around the desert. But it’s in Exodus where the amazing stuff happens—like when God parts the Red Sea to allow the Israelites

Even amid all the iconic tales of Genesis, the story of the Tower of Babel stands out. In nine short lines, it tells us how the uppity men of Earth decided to build a tower so big it could feature as a set piece in MI:5.

We know of the Queen of Sheba from various sources, including the Bible and the Qur’an. Whether she was a queen regent or a queen consort, we do not know. Her full name isn’t ever mentioned, but most scholars

To the Lovedu people of Mpumalanga, South Africa, the Rain Queen is a fundamental part of their culture

The exploits of Anansi, West Africa’s great trickster-god, are described in hundreds of folktales. Usually in the form of a spider, his stories mainly deal with his attempts at fooling humans into stealing or doing

In an Angolan folktale, death is explained like this: heartbroken after the death of his favorite wife Muhungu, Chief Kitamba ordered his people not to speak or eat until she could be brought back to life. The headmen

This remarkable African mammal is usually featured as a goddess in African legends. Worshiped in ancient Egypt as Tawaret, the goddess of fertility and childbirth, she was essentially regarded as a protective and caring deity.

The legendary Zambezi River God, or Nyaminyami, is a dragon-like creature believed to command all life in and on the mighty Zambezi River, the fourth-largest river system on the continent. According to one fable, the

The Biloko are diabolical dwarf-like entities believed to roam the nethermost regions of the rainforest in central Zaire. According to the legends, these beings are restless ancestor spirits who still harbor resentment

According to Akan mythology, all humans lived deep within the earth. One day, seven men, five women, a leopard, and a dog crawled out of a hole made by a massive worm. Looking around them, the astonished

The Bushmen, also called the Khoi or San, are the nomads of Africa. In the last few decades, many have become farmers due to the dangers that our modern life poses to their traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle, but their territory once stretched from the Cape to Kenya. The Bushmen are experts at finding water, and their advice is often sought out due to their precognitive dreams and divining capabilities.

In many African stories, Huveane is the first man, while in others he is portrayed as a conniving deity. For the Basotho and Bavenda peoples of Lesotho, South Africa, he is their creator. After the creation of the earth

Multiple award-winning gospel singer, Kefee Don Momoh, has been confirmed dead. She passed on in the early hours of today, after being in coma for weeks in an undisclosed American hospital.

Africa man is independent

Africans! The road to success is nt straight.There is a curb called Failure,a loop called Confusion; speed

Treat everyone with kindness

Treat everyone with kindness
and
respect, even those who are rude
to you

Finally

To God Almighty= i say thank U
To my true friends= i appreciate

Children of God

I proclaim victory and total breakthrough over
every areas of your life. As you go forth, the favor

beaten ones chest

beaten ones chest and saying to ur
self all is well! All is well!! All is
well!!! has helped so many people
dat ar nt christians in times of
dificulty; wat about dos who ar
chrstians? Imagin u saying to urself
@ d time of difficulties All is well in
Jesus name! All is well in Jesus
name!! All is well in Jesus name!!!
Can u imagine how wonderful it
will be?

EXCELLENCE

0.999999... Approximating towards
EXCELLENCE- De Power of
Preparation.
Abraham Lincoln once said, "I will

My Dear brethren

My Dear brethren, If any One Of Us miss Heaven, It wil b Better dat dat Person was nt Born into dis World.Jesus is knocking at d door of ur Heart, giveHim a Chance ,and stop playing religion, and receive true / TOTALSalvation from SIN .JESUS Love and died

Always talk 2 those who'l gv U a listening ear,who'l b there 2 support yhu in one way or another,and nt evry1 U see,to avoid complicating issues or worsening d matter.

Summon Your Courage

If you summon your courage to challenge something, you’ll never be left with regret. How sad it is to spend your life wishing, “If only I’d had a little more courage.” Whatever the outcome may be, the important thing is

Be known

Be known for pleasing others, espcecially if you govern them...Ruling other has one advantage: you can do

MY PASTOR AND MY WIFE - WHO DO I OBEY?

I'm happily married to a beautiful woman whom I love so much. I work as a personal assistant to the pastor of my church.

Origin

The Swahili language, is basically of Bantu (African) origin. It has borrowed words from other languages such as Arabic probably as a result of the Swahili people using the Quran written in Arabic for spiritual

GIVERS

Givers neva lack & receivers always ask..so u
shudn't ask 4 u 2 get...its complicatin as one can't
giv u wen u didn't ask...how abt dat?

No One Can Make U Feel Inferior

“No one can make u feel inferior without ur consent- dear Africans u r superior n ultimate until u dispose ya self “Wheneva u find urself on d side of d majority,its time 2 pause n reflect weda ya majority status is as a

Plans of Men

Many men made plans bt didn't fulfill dem,dey possessed ideas bt didn't actualized dem,all dis
emanated 4rm their fear of nature n Its inhabitats..ma dear Africans fear nt n all u stand 4 will b an immense success n great achievement of

Late Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Abdullahi Bayero

Alhaji Dr. Ado Abdullahi Bayero (CFR, LLD, JP) (25 July 1930 – 6 June 2014) was the Emir of Kano in Nigeria, from 1963 to his death. Bayero was seen as one of Nigeria’s most prominent and revered Muslim

pump life thru a broken

no one can pump life thru a broken heart.it's like pourin perfum into a broken decanter,no mater wat u put in it,it always leak out again.if ur heart has been broken by life,if ur optimism has died in the fight 2 endure,i

"favour is not free

"favour is not free" it can b provok,it can b activated,it can b created.until u sow d seed of favour never expect to reap it as an harvest.RIGHT WORDS,GD ATITUD activat favour;never write a leter,send an sms,speak words,update status wen u ar angry,it wil cause a TRAGEDY OF LOST FAVOUR.

ITS NEVER TOO LATE

ITS NEVER TOO LATE:u can delvelop into new opprtunities,u can face the sky like the EAGLE,ur dream is not a fantasy,keep the pursuit alive like this ICON MANDELA;d pauper who turns out to be a prince,d bogeyman who proves to be the wizard. his 3 decades in jail cut him off from d surge of materialism & consumerism dat swept thru d western world. It was a tragedy 2 lose d best days of ur life,bt u learned a lot,u had time 2 think-2 stand away from urself from a distance, 2 see d contradiction in urself,2 develop d subtler art of politics,hw 2 relate 2 all kinds of pple.He{mandela}developd himselfso dat wen he eventually came out,he did not end up in an ENVELOP>key
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Sylvester Beloved

Wednesday 4 June 2014

Africa hero Haile Selassie

Haile Selassie

Haile Selassie was emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He was the heir to a dynasty that traced its origins to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Exiled after leading a revolt against Italian forces during

Carlota Lukumi

Carlota Lukumi was kidnapped from her Nigerian tribe and sold into Cuban slavery as a child. She was

Queen Nanny

Queen Nanny was kidnapped from Ghana as a child and sold into slavery in Jamaica. After escaping a plantation with her brothers, she led revolts, helped free hundreds of slaves, and established a settlement

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Nasser was the second president of Egypt and the pioneer of Arab nationalism in the country. He organized the overthrow of the monarchy and was attacked by members of the Muslim community during his work to establish the United Arab Republic with Syria. He was also responsible for much of Egypt’s modernization.

Africa hero Queen Mother Yaa Asantewaa

Queen Mother Yaa Asantewaa

Yaa Asantewaa was the queen of the Edweso tribe in what is today Ghana. She raised an army of thousands against British colonial forces looking to subjugate her tribe. After the colonial forces won, she lived in exile until her death in 1921

Africa hero Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe is a beloved African writer who, in a lecture at the University of Massachusetts, called out Joseph Conrad’s book “Heart of Darkness” as dehumanizing towards blacks. His essay on the subject became an influential post-colonial African work.

Africa hero Patrice Lumumba

Patrice Lumumba

Patrice Lumumba was the first elected prime minister of the Congo Republic. He helped win his country’s independence from Belgium in June 1960. His pan-Africanist vision to unite the Congo resulted in

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Marcus Garvey

Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey did several things to advance black interests in the world, from founding the Universal Negro Improvement Association to launching a huge black economic development campaign

Julius Nyerere

Nyerere was the first president of Tanzania and was known for battling corruption within the country’s

Robert Mugabe

Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe, still is fighting to regain the land once owned by his ancestors. He

These African heroes who stood by their beliefs no matter what, worked to liberate African countries from colonizing forces or to better black interests throughout the world. Some paid the ultimate price with their lives.

10 Things That Made Shaka Zulu A Military Genius

Shaka Zulu is said to be one of the greatest military leaders in African history, and perhaps all of history. There is controversy around the brutality of his methods, and the strictness with which he trained his troops, but in many ways, he improved warfare methods forever. Born in 1787 in what is now South Africa’s

Nigeria’s Igbo Jews: ‘Lost tribe’ of Israel?

A Sabbath service is underway at the Ghihon Hebrew Research synagogue in the Jikwoyi suburb of Nigeria’s federal capital territory.

Fourteen-year-old Kadmiel Izungu Abor heads there with his family. They walk alongside stray goats on a

brief history of SAO TOME

16th century - Sao Tome colonised by the Portuguese, who bring in slaves to work sugar plantations. Becomes important staging post for slave trade.

Portuguese official reads declaration of independence

Portugal granted independence in 1975

1800s - Cocoa introduced. Sao Tome develops into one of world's main cocoa producers.
1951 - Becomes overseas province of Portugal.

Obasanjo Biography

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, the Balogun and Prime-Minister of Owu Kingdom, a retired army General, a one time Military Head of State, and past Executive President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria typifies the Owu man in every respect; a no nonsense breed of people that are propelled by an unquenching passion for excellence that usually renders them badly misunderstood.
Owulakoda features this iconic character on this page…

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo

He was bequeathed to Nigeria through a humble peasant family of lean resources but the story of Africa’s leading state cannot be completely told without several chapters devoted to the remarkable landmarks of Olusegun Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo. In the languid village of Ibogun, located in the present day Ifo Local

How can you adequately describe someone like Col Muammar Gaddafi? During a period that spanned six decades, the Libyan leader paraded on the world stage with a style so unique and unpredictable that the words "maverick" or "eccentric" scarcely did him justice.

His rule saw him go from revolutionary hero to international pariah, to valued strategic partner and back to pariah again.

The origin of the Igbo people is a mystery and a subject of greater controversy, more controversial than that of every other ethnic group in Nigeria and probably in Africa.
There are so many versions of Igbo origin and it is very difficult, or probably impossible to say which is the most real or most acceptable.

Where did the Igbos come from?

By akpomedaye rock, delta State, Nigeria

Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu

“Majority of Igbos are satisfied to accept the Israel hypothesis supported by the triple testimonies of oral tradition, Eri migration and archaeological evidence.”

Where the Igbos migrated from has not been proved beyond reasonable doubt. The ancestry of the Igbos has bothered many people for a long time. Many historians, philosophers, sociologists, archaeologists and anthropologists have raised a lot of dust on this issue. A lot of views have been proffered but yet the origin of the Igbos remained a mirage

It is now over twenty years since Makerere University began awarding degrees in Orunyakitara. The radio stations in Kibaale, Hoima, Masindi, and Kabarole even have special programmes conspicuously entitled, Orunyakitara.

Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom

Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom is one of the oldest Kingdoms in Africa. The Kingdom wielded the strongest military and economic power in the Great Lakes Region between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. At that time, the Kingdom covered much of the current Uganda, parts of Eastern Congo, Western Tanzania, Northern Kenya and small parcels of Burundi and Rwanda. But in the 1880s, the British Colonial Officers, desperate for economic resources, waged war on Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom. The purpose was to weaken the authority, influence and prestige of Omukama Yohana Cwa II Kabalega and destroy the only remaining independent and wealthy Bunyoro Kingdom.

Origin of Buganda kingdom

The region known today as Buganda was known as Muwaawa before the 12th century, a name literary seem to mean a place that is sparsely populated. It is believed that these people come from Abyssinia through the rift valley and the mountains of Elgon.

These people were organized into groups that had a common ancestry and constituted the most important unit in Buganda's culture - the clan. The leader of each of these clans would be a chief and ruled a section of the territory. There were five original clans referred to as Banansangwa simply meaning the indigenous clans

History of the Ashanti Kingdom

Asante Kings (Asantehene)
Nana Osei Tutu (1680 tp 1717),
Nana Opoku Ware I (1720-1750)
Nana Kusi Obodum (1750-1764)
Nana Osei Kwadwo (1764-1777
Nana Osei Kwame (1777-1798)
Nana Opoku Fofie (1798-1799)
Nana Osei Bonsu (1800-1823)
Nana Osei Yaw Akoto (1824-34)
Nana Kwaku Dua I (1834 - 67)
Nana Kofi Karikari (1867-74)
Nana Mensah Bonsu (1874-1883)
Nana Kwaku Dua II in 1884
Nana Kwaku Duah II alias Nana Agyeman Prempeh I from 1888 to 1931,
Nana Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II from 1931 to 1970

Otumfuo Opoku Ware II from 1970-1999. The Asante kingdom was founded by the great King Osei Tutu in the eighteenth century. His fetish priest was Okomfo Anokye, who unified the Asante states through allegiance to the Golden Stool, which miraculously descended from heaven. Okomfo Anokye planted two

CALABAR KINGDOM

Calabar Kingdom also known as Efik Kingdom is an Ancient Kingdom that existed thousands of years before Christ. The City of Calabar was the seat of power of the Calabar Kingdom. According to Obong of Calabar, Edidem (DR./Professor Nta Elijah Henshaw), Calabar Kingdom covered the entire Akwa Ibom State, Cross River State, Western Cameroon, the offshore island of Fernando Po (now Equatorial Guinea), and extended into parts of present Abia State and Imo State (Vanguard, Monday, August 2, 2004, reported by George Onah)

. The indigenes of the old Calabar Kingdom were referred to as Calabar people (even at present day, some

The Bakassi Territorial Dispute

Bakassi was founded around 1450 by the Efik of coastal south eastern Nigeria, and was incorporated within the political framework of Calabar Kingdom along with Southern Cameroons.









Xwédan Artifacts

The Xwédan kingdom with its capital at Savi and port of Ouidah (or Gléwé) was one of the most important trade entrepôts during the emergence of large-scale and sustained trade between Western Europe, the Americas , and Africa ca. 1600 AD. Xwédan kings exchanged captured individuals to traders for European manufactured goods and exotic items from as far away as the Indian Ocean . As this trade reached a zenith in the coastal area of modern-day Bénin, Savi served as a political center for regional administration, a religious center for python (i.e., Dangbe) worship, and an economic hub. Weekly markets near Savi drew thousands, who bartered locally produced goods, or exchanged cowries as currency, for other trade items.