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White Highlands: How Britain Seized Kenya’s Prime Farmlands to Build a ‘White Man’s Country’ in the 1900s

The White Highlands of central Kenya were once the ancestral lands of communities such as the Kikuyu, Maasai, and Kalenjin. By the early 1900s, however, the British colonial government transformed this fertile region into the centerpiece of European settlement,...

Batepá massacre: Portugal’s Colonial Slaughter in São Tomé and Príncipe That Left Hundreds Dead

On February 3, 1953, the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe witnessed one of the bloodiest episodes of Portuguese colonial rule, the Batepá massacre. What began as tensions over forced labour quickly turned into a campaign of mass violence...

The Great Hanging of Moshi: How Germany Executed 19 Tanzanian Leaders Who Refused to Bow to Colonial Rule

The Great Hanging at Old Moshi, also known as the Great Chagga Conspiracy, was a mass execution that took place on March 2, 1900, under German colonial rule in what is now northern Tanzania. Nineteen local leaders and noblemen...

The Battle of Annual: How Spain Lost Over 13,000 Troops in Its Worst Military Defeat in Africa

On 22 July 1921, in the mountainous terrain of northeastern Morocco, the Spanish Empire suffered its most devastating military defeat in modern history, the Battle of Annual. Fought between the Spanish Army and the Riffian Berbers during the Rif...

Rudolf Duala Manga Bell: The African King Executed by Germany for Standing Against the Displacement of His People

Rudolf Duala Manga Bell, was a visionary monarch, legal strategist, and resistance leader who was executed on August 8, 1914, for opposing Germany’s plan to seize ancestral lands and forcibly displace his people to make way for a European-only...

Chief Chingaira Makoni: The African Leader Executed in 1896 for Resisting British Colonial Rule

Chief Chingaira Makoni was a prominent leader of the Makoni people in what is now eastern Zimbabwe. He is remembered for resisting British colonial forces during the First Chimurenga (1896–1897), a Shona and Ndebele uprising against the British South...

Mangi Meli: The African Leader Executed by German Colonizers for Resisting Colonial Rule in 1900

In the late 19th century, as European powers carved up Africa during the Scramble for Africa, many African leaders rose to resist colonial oppression. One such hero was Mangi Meli of the Chagga people in present-day Tanzania. His courageous...

King Toera: The Malagasy King Who Was Beheaded for Resisting French Rule in 1897

King Toera was the last independent ruler of the Menabe region in western Madagascar who was executed by French colonial forces in 1897 during their conquest of the island. After initially extending hospitality to the French, he was met...

Nsala’s Tragedy: The Photograph That Exposed the Horrors of King Leopold’s Reign in the Congo

Nsala was a Congolese man from the village of Wala in the Congo Free State, tragically immortalized in a photograph taken by english missionary Alice Seeley Harris on May 14, 1904. The image captures Nsala sitting in silent grief,...

Ranavalona III: How the Last Queen of Madagascar Was Overthrown and Exiled for Resisting French Colonization in 1897

Queen Ranavalona III was the last sovereign of the Kingdom of Madagascar, ruling from 1883 to 1897. Her reign was marked by efforts to resist French colonization, including strengthening diplomatic ties and modernizing her kingdom. Despite her determination, Madagascar...
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The Devil of Haiti: Jean-Baptiste de Caradeux, the French Slaver Nicknamed “The Cruel” for His Brutality Against Enslaved Africans

Jean-Baptiste de Caradeux de La Caye remains one of the most despised figures in the history of French Saint-Domingue,...