An ancient golden coffin worth $4 million, which is believed to have been looted from Egypt and sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) in New York City, has been returned to its home in a ceremony...
Writing in the book, DUAL MANDATE, on Page 70, some 12years after the amalgamation of Nigeria (1926), this was what Lugard wrote about Nigerians And Africans In General:
Page 70 of The Dual Mandate by F. D. Lugard 1926
"In character...
The Osun Osogbo festival, a traditional celebration that is thought to be 600 years old, is under way in Nigeria's south-western Osun state.
The two-week festival is considered to be the biggest annual traditional religious event of the Yoruba people.
Every...
The World’s First Illustrated Christian Bible is in Ethiopia, and It Is 800 years Older than the King James Version, and was handwritten in a day. The book, which is kept securely in a bright-blue circular hut at the...
Exactly 185 years ago (August 1) today in Britain, an act of Parliament came into force abolishing slavery in most British colonies, freeing more than
800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa as well as a small number...
Egypt on Saturday opened two ancient pyramids south of the capital Cairo and unveiled a collection of newly found sarcophagi, some containing well-preserved mummies.
Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani told reporters the Bent Pyramid of King Sneferu, the first pharaoh of...
Did you know that during the dark era, slavers did all they could to justify the practice of slave trade, including creating a dedicated Slave Bible. In the Slave Bible, Passages that could have prompted rebellion were removed, And...
Sarah Rector was an African American member of the Muscogee Nation, best known for being the "Richest Colored Girl in the world" or the "Millionaire girl a member of the race".
Born as the daughter of freedmen in 1902, Sarah...
A 3,000-year-old sculpture of Tutankhamun was yesterday auctioned off by UK-based Christie's auction house for nearly $6 million, despite Cairo calling on the UK government to stop the sale. Egypt claimed the relic was illegally taken from the country.
UK-based...
Black African veterans who fought for Britain in the second world war and were paid much less than their white counterparts would not be getting compensation from the British government..
UK Defense Minister Tobias Ellwood, in a private letter...
