Chiedozie Omeje

History

Slave Brokerage: How Early U.S. Newspapers Facilitated The Sales And Purchase Of Slaves

Chiedozie Omeje - May 10, 2022

In the earliest history of US stock brokerage, one stock stood out both in nature and the revenue it generated – humans. The more preferred name for the merchandise was slave, and the stock market were the first US newspapers

History

Edward Nkoloso and His Afronauts Project: Could the USA Have Stolen Their Space Secrets From Zambia?

Chiedozie Omeje - April 30, 2022

Edward Makuka Nkoloso and His Afronauts Project: Nkoloso hoped to beat the United States and Soviet Union's respective space programs at the height of the Space Race.

History

Antonianism: The Catholic Movement That Portrayed Jesus as a Black Man

Chiedozie Omeje - April 23, 2022

The Antonianism Christian movement taught that Jesus and other early Christian figures were from the Kongo Empire and that heaven is for Africans alone.

History

Slavery in the US: How Black Women Resisted Slave Breeding By Using Cotton Roots as Contraceptives

Chiedozie Omeje - March 31, 2022

Throughout the antebellum era, slave breeding was a highly profitable investment. Slaves were scarce. The cheap labor they provided in plantations wasn’t cheap anymore and slave children sold like wildfire. The couple of years following the prohibition of slave importation...

Religion

Jesus and Other Gods Born on December 25

Chiedozie Omeje - December 23, 2021

JESUS AND OTHER GODS BORN ON DECEMBER 25. Coincidence or a Case of Divine Peer Pressure? First, I need to say that I love Christmas and that I want the festival to stay. I have lived long enough to see...

Society & Culture

Transatlantic Slavery: How European Offers of Weaponry Lured African Chiefs into Slave Trade

Chiedozie Omeje - August 3, 2021

Transatlantic Slavery: How European Offers of Weaponry Lured African Chiefs into Slave Trade

History

Project Atlantropa: A German Architect’s Plan To Merge Europe And Africa Into One

Chiedozie Omeje - July 16, 2021

In Sörgel's Atlantropa, white Europeans would rule as the dominant race, using black Africans as a strictly segregated source of manual labor.

Lifestyle

Annie Hawkins: Meet the Woman with the Largest Natural Breasts in the World

Chiedozie Omeje - July 9, 2021

In 1999, Ms. Hawkins made it to the Guinness book as the woman with the largest natural breasts in the world.

Society & Culture

Black Africans With Blue Eyes; Separating Myths From Facts

Chiedozie Omeje - July 5, 2021

The subject of black Africans with blue eyes did not lose this dramatic disposition, considering that it is a rare eye color in a continent where the majority see through brown bulbs.

Society & Culture

Revd Paul Obayi – Meet The Nigerian Priest Saving Igbo Deities from the bonfires

Chiedozie Omeje - June 25, 2021

While some Pentecostal preachers in eastern Nigeria set fire to statues and other ancient artefacts that they regard as symbols of idolatry, one Catholic priest reverend Paul Obayi is collecting them instead.

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