Slavery

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Pan-Africanism is a worldwide intellectual movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all people of African descent. Based upon a common fate going back to the Atlantic slave trade, the movement extends beyond continental Africans, with a substantial support base

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Source: AA Studies Research Guide

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COVID-19's hydra challenges to 'burdened' South Sudan

June 21: Virus outbreak could spin ‘out of control’ in South Sudan

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Botswana coronavirus: successful mandatory cross border testing

Total confirmed cases = 60

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Nigeria coronavirus: 20,244 cases; daily new cases drop below 500

Confirmed cases = 19,808

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Debonair’s, Steers units record Sh5m loss in Kenya

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Source: Business Daily

UN rights body to probe US over racism against African - Americans

June 19: UN rights body to report on racism after Floyd killing

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

African immigrant population in U.S. steadily climbs

African immigrants make up a small share of the nation’s immigrant population, but their overall numbers are growing – roughly doubling every decade since 1970, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau

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Source: Pew Research Center | Nonpartisan, non-advocacy public opinion polling and demographic research

Nigeria: Why Nigeria's African Swine Fever Outbreak Will Hit Farmers Hard

Nigeria is in the throes of a fresh outbreak of African swine fever which has affected 145,000 pigs in Oke Aro, West Africa's largest pig farm

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Source: allAfrica.com

African Americans in New York City

African Americans constitute one of the longer-running ethnic presences in New York City. The majority of the African American population largely claims descent from West and Central Africa by way of importation to the American South via the Atlantic slave trade (and a rarer presence of those

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Dakar, Senegal (1857- )

Dakar was the political center of French West Africa and is the capital of modern Senegal. Located on Cape Verde, the westernmost point of the African mainland, Ndaxaru, known by its French name, Dakar, has been occupied at least since Europeans began to explore the area. The French, attracted by

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Nigeria

The Federal Republic of Nigeria /n aɪ ˈ dʒ ɪər i ə/ ( listen), commonly referred to as Nigeria, is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean. It

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Media Watch: Kenya to consolidate spike in tech use during COVID-19

Ethiopia restores internet to western Oromia after 3-month blackout

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More Latinas Are Choosing to Identify as Afro-Latina

When Aisha Cort walks into a convenience store with her rich brown skin and tiny dark locs, she knows she has the power to cause confusion by speaking

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Covid-19: AU hails 'African jewel' as continental medical supplies platform launched

African leaders have lauded the launch of the continent's first medical supplies platform as the "jewel in the crown of Pan-African

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Black UK protester statue removed from pedestal in Bristol - Black News Channel

By JO KEARNEY and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BRISTOL, England (AP) — Officials in the English city of Bristol on Thursday removed a statue of a Black Lives Matter activist that was installed on a pedestal once occupied by a monument to a 17th-century slave trader. Artist Marc Quinn created the

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Rejected for being gay, Alain LeRoy Rocke became the Father of the Harlem Renaissance

Alain LeRoy Locke was a longtime Howard University professor, art critic, writer and

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

History of the African Slave Trade

Although slavery has been practiced for almost the whole of recorded history, the vast numbers involved in the African slave trade has left a legacy which can not be

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Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano , (born c. 1745, Essaka [in present-day Nigeria]?—died March 31, 1797, London, England), self-proclaimed West African sold into slavery and later freed. His autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by

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Source: Brittanica

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Racism in the United States

Racism in the United States has been present since the colonial era. Legally or socially sanctioned privileges and rights were given to white Americans but denied to Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic and Latino Americans. European Americans (particularly the

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Reverse Freedom Rides: When segregationists tricked blacks from the South into moving north

A segregationist publicity stunt spearheaded by George Singelmann of the White Citizens Council in New Orleans, the Reverse Freedom Rides program was to trick hundreds of African Americans from the South into moving

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Bid to slash semen price by 60pc for mass production

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Lake Nyos: The deadly lake in Cameroon that once claimed over 1,700 lives overnight

Lake Nyos in Cameroon has been described as one of the deadliest water bodies in the world, responsible for a deadly natural disaster that took the lives of many as well as domestic animals on August

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

NDEMO: Economics of race in Kenya’s tech sector

Economics of race in Kenya’s tech sector

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Source: Business Daily

Will Evariste rescue Burundi from economic ruin?

President Evariste Ndayishimiye faces a daunting diplomatic task ahead as he works to mend relations with neighbouring countries and the international community if he is to rescue Burundi’s struggling

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Source: The East African

African immigration to the United States

African immigration to the United States refers to immigrants to the United States who are or were nationals of modern African countries. The term African in the scope of this article refers to geographical or national origins rather than racial affiliation. Between the Immigration and Nationality

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Rare 'ring of fire' solar eclipse to dim Africa, Asia

Skywatchers along a narrow band from west Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, India and southern China will witness the most dramatic "ring of fire" solar eclipse to shadow the Earth in years on

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Schooled By Youtube: In Memory of Malcolm X….Unapologetic & Uncompromising

Schooled By Youtube: In Memory of Malcolm

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The sad tale of Dambudzo Marechera, the only African Guardian Fiction Prize winner

Dambudzo Marechera, a Zimbabwean novelist, short story writer, playwright and poet won critical acclaim for his collection of stories entitled “The House of

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

D.C.'s Go-Go music explained in a documentary 'The Beat Don't Stop'

New York City is the birthplace of Hip-Hop and Electro beats, and many of those styles birthed out of its gritty streets have shaped the way people think about East Coast urban

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