Amanirenas
1 23 4 56 7 8 9 1011 12 13 There’s a ton of different spellings of her name – Amanirenat, Imminerant, etc – but this seems to be the most common one. The Roman historian Strabo referred to her merely...
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1 2 3 The main source on her is one paragraph in Herodotus’s Histories, which I’ll reproduce here in full: “To avenge her brother (he was king of Egypt and was slain by his subjects who then gave...
View ArticleTaytu Betul
If you know anything about Africa’s interactions with Europeans in the 1800s, you know that things didn’t go great for the Africans. Time and time again, a European “ally” nation would just happen to...
View ArticleNana Miriam
Many, many ages ago, in a time no one could actually pin down for you, the Soroko people of Niger had a problem. Every year, just as they were about to harvest their precious rice, the biggest,...
View ArticleMekatilili wa Menza
The year is 1913. The place is Kenya. The British are behaving badly. What did they do now, you ask? Whip out your “colonial hooliganism” bingo cards: Levied enforced labor on the locals (after...
View ArticleSarraounia
At the closing of the 1800s, France had some of its all-time worst ambassadors plowing through Africa. Paul Voulet and Julien Chanoine, of the predictably-named Voulet-Chanoine Mission, were acting as...
View ArticleThákane
Did you know African folklore had dragons? I didn’t. Nor did I know it had dragon-slaying princesses. Then I read the tale of Thákane. Thákane was the daughter of a great chief. After said chief died,...
View ArticleAmanirenas
1 23 4 56 7 8 9 1011 12 13 There’s a ton of different spellings of her name – Amanirenat, Imminerant, etc – but this seems to be the most common one. The Roman historian Strabo referred to her merely...
View ArticleNitocris
1 2 3 The main source on her is one paragraph in Herodotus’s Histories, which I’ll reproduce here in full: “To avenge her brother (he was king of Egypt and was slain by his subjects who then gave...
View ArticleTaytu Betul
If you know anything about Africa’s interactions with Europeans in the 1800s, you know that things didn’t go great for the Africans. Time and time again, a European “ally” nation would just happen to...
View ArticleNana Miriam
Many, many ages ago, in a time no one could actually pin down for you, the Soroko people of Niger had a problem. Every year, just as they were about to harvest their precious rice, the biggest,...
View ArticleMekatilili wa Menza
The year is 1913. The place is Kenya. The British are behaving badly. What did they do now, you ask? Whip out your “colonial hooliganism” bingo cards: Levied enforced labor on the locals (after...
View ArticleSarraounia
At the closing of the 1800s, France had some of its all-time worst ambassadors plowing through Africa. Paul Voulet and Julien Chanoine, of the predictably-named Voulet-Chanoine Mission, were acting as...
View ArticleThákane
Did you know African folklore had dragons? I didn’t. Nor did I know it had dragon-slaying princesses. Then I read the tale of Thákane. Thákane was the daughter of a great chief. After said chief died,...
View ArticleAmanirenas
1 23 4 56 7 8 9 1011 12 13 There’s a ton of different spellings of her name – Amanirenat, Imminerant, etc – but this seems to be the most common one. The Roman historian Strabo referred to her merely...
View ArticleNitocris
1 2 3 The main source on her is one paragraph in Herodotus’s Histories, which I’ll reproduce here in full: “To avenge her brother (he was king of Egypt and was slain by his subjects who then gave...
View ArticleTaytu Betul
If you know anything about Africa’s interactions with Europeans in the 1800s, you know that things didn’t go great for the Africans. Time and time again, a European “ally” nation would just happen to...
View ArticleNana Miriam
Many, many ages ago, in a time no one could actually pin down for you, the Soroko people of Niger had a problem. Every year, just as they were about to harvest their precious rice, the biggest,...
View ArticleMekatilili wa Menza
The year is 1913. The place is Kenya. The British are behaving badly. What did they do now, you ask? Whip out your “colonial hooliganism” bingo cards: Levied enforced labor on the locals (after...
View ArticleSarraounia
At the closing of the 1800s, France had some of its all-time worst ambassadors plowing through Africa. Paul Voulet and Julien Chanoine, of the predictably-named Voulet-Chanoine Mission, were acting as...
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