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Greeks visited Egypt as students to learn from Africans.

Plato studied in Egypt for 13 years.

Pythagoras studied Philosophy, Geometry and Medicine in Egypt for 22 years.

Thales, the first Greek philosopher studied in Egypt.

Hippocrates studied Medicine in Egypt for 7 years.

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2021-04-28

April 12, 1787: Richard Allen organized the Free African Society, a beneficial and moral reform society among free blacks.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
https://t.co/UjuDuBuUwV

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2021-04-12

Africans also made a wide array of metallic items for (house, business, war, farming, construction, grooming etc). They made mirrors, knives, swords, spoons, razors, tweezers, shears, cutters, metallic weights, pins, pincers, scoops, needles, combs, scissors, vases, tongs etc.

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2021-04-12

$20 Experimental digital headshot boost. 4 slots. PayPal. (South Africans can EFT).

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2021-04-11

black americans, south africans, central africans, indians, indigenous americans, aboriginals, irish, scottish, welsh, people from MENA, christopher eccleston, canadians and black british people rn

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2021-04-09

Bugged me too. He's indirectly shitting on all back male actors. Like we can never get a better performance? That's insane. Especially when you consider the African talent that hasn't been considered and the 1st gen Africans in the MCU that would have crushed this role.

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2021-04-03

Africans didn't give up their land to the colonialists without a fight.

Check out these 19th century UK newspaper reports (1838 - Zulus, Ghana) (1892 - Zanzibar, Dahomey—now in Benin Republic).

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2021-03-26

MAMAN BRIGITTE:
The vice-indulgent Vodou Lwa of death whose characteristics are said to come from New Orleans' Irish prostitutes who showed solidarity with enslaved Africans

About whom you can find out more in my book "Morbid Magic" vía

https://t.co/WdOVfkLQY6

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2021-03-23

Hi I’m thrilled I got to illustrate some of the most inspiring Africans for the new NATIVE feature story.
https://t.co/yzWZIJNHtQ

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2021-03-01

Celebrate Black History Month with the Sisterhood: A million Africans who were brought to America during the trans-Atlantic slave trade were Muslim, and today over 25 percent of US Muslims are black. Join us tomorrow at 6:30pm! https://t.co/vDyLfu8Xth

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2021-02-24

Anyone out there interested in/researching/responding to historical portraits of Africans in British art?

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2021-02-20

Most were taught that JUST Africans were slaves & that whites werent. From the 16th - 19th centuries, within the Mediterranean, at least 1.25 million Europeans were enslaved by Barbary pirates of North Africa. This is known as the Barbary slave trade.

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2021-02-19

Compared to the infamous trans-Atlantic slave trade, Arabs traded more blacks as slaves than Europeans.

Between 8-17 million Africans were bought by Arab slave traders and reportedly an even greater number died en route.

The Arab slave trade also lasted longer.

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2021-02-15

Serengeti National Park 🇹🇿
Wildebeest & Zebra migration
The Great migration

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2021-02-09

“The Grief” (2018) from self-taught Gabonese photographer .

The main goal of the 25 year old Montréal, Canada-based artist is to represent Africans in a contemporary manner that is familiar yet 'new' to the 21st century beholder.
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2021-01-27

The first thing that came to mind as I read that headline.

(The fact that Musk and Glomgold are both South Africans is purely a coincidence...)

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2021-01-08

Today we remember the Haitian revolution which began on 21st August 1791. The revolution was a revolt by the enslaved Africans in the French colony of Saint Domingue. The revolution was most successfully lead by commander Toussaint L'Ouverture.🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹

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2021-01-01

Black-eyed peas are a variety of the cowpea and are part of the family of beans & peas. Not native to the New World, black-eyed peas were brought to the West Indies by enslaved West Africans, by earliest records in 1674.

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2021-01-01