James Bannerman was a prominent trader and slave-owner in Ghana in the first half of the nineteenth century. His parents were Colonel Henry Bannerman, a Scottish trader and officer, and a Ga woman from Accra whose name is unknown. Henry Bannerman worked for the Royal Africa Company and was stationed at Cape Coast, a British … More James Bannerman
In this day 1960, Togo the former German colony that gained independence from France. It’s been 60 years since Togo gained its independence from France. The country, which was severely hit by the slave trade in the 16th century, was once a protectorate of Germany until the Germans were defeated by the French and British … More Independence Day – Togo
One of the more fascinating ways to look at the small country of Togo is that if Ghana’s first president Kwame Nkrumah had his way, Togo would have been part of the territory formerly known as the Gold Coast. As Face2FaceAfrica once explained, Nkrumah had always wanted more of Togo, perhaps all of it, to … More How Togo came to have its name
In 2020 a Memorial will be erected in Lisbon in honor of the victims of the slave trade, an initiative of Djass – Association of Afro-descendants that was one of the winning projects of the 2017/2018 edition of the Participative Budget of Lisbon. The Memorial will be chosen by voting in public sessions and will take … More Slavery memorial – Lisbon 2020
In 2020 a Memorial will be erected in Lisbon in honor of the victims of the slave trade, an initiative of Djass – Association of Afro-descendants that was one of the winning projects of the 2017/2018 edition of the Participative Budget of Lisbon. The Memorial will be chosen by voting in public sessions and will take … More Slavery memorial – Lisbon 2020
In 2020 a Memorial will be erected in Lisbon in honor of the victims of the slave trade, an initiative of Djass – Association of Afro-descendants that was one of the winning projects of the 2017/2018 edition of the Participative Budget of Lisbon. The Memorial will be chosen by voting in public sessions and will take … More Slavery memorial Lisbon
The Phenomenon Over a decade after his death, vindication has come to Fela Kuti, Africa’s musical genius. AfroBeat, his gift to the world, is now an international staple on his own uncompromising terms, social content intact. Throughout his life, Fela contended that AfroBeat was a modern form of danceable, African classical music with an urgent … More Tribute to Fela Kuti
Please take your time to watch the video: When did Thomas Sankara live? Born in 1949, Captain Thomas Sankara took power during the revolution which started on August 4, 1983. With his comrades in arms, he renamed the Upper Volta, a name inherited from the French colonial power, into the Democratic and Popular Republic of Burkina … More Sankara & Sankara Oct 15:Assassination of a revolutinary
Take your time to watch this video and know more about Thomas Sankara and even his last minute ONLY 4 YEARS in power (1983-87). Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (21 December 1949 – 15 October 1987) was a Burkinabé military captain, Marxist revolutionary, pan-Africanist theorist, and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. Viewed by … More Thomas Sankara: The man every revolutionary needs to know
At the time of his interview, Fountain Hughes was sure of one strong conviction: he would rather kill himself than be a slave again. Hughes was 101 at the time of this interview on Voices from the Days of Slavery but his perspectives and memories of the days of slavery were as sharp as a … More Interview with Fountain Hughes: ex-slave whose grandfather was owned by Thomas Jefferson.
