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Kings of Napatan Kash

 

artistic recreation of Assyrian and Nubian soldier

 

Around 750BC, the city of Napata (around 400 km of modern day Khartoum in Sudan) rose to prominence. The city was part of an ancient kingdom, named after the Egyptian word for gold—"nub"—hence Nubia

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Diaspora Denizens Haunt Halloween

Article on Halloween and the Diaspora by author Nnedi Okorafor. It first appeared on the site Africana.com back in 2000. Though the site is now defunct, some of the better stories I managed to save.

 

Diaspora Denizens Haunt Halloween

 

By Nnedi Okorafor

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Little Ships of Horror

 

 

 

The Middle Passage looms large in the history of the Black Atlantic and the African Diaspora. Writers like Derrick Bell and our own Ronald Jones have touched on the theme of the slave ship, and it seems an area ripe for "imaginings." Below is a 20

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If We Must Die

If We Must Die, by Eric Robert Taylor, is the first work I've come across that focuses exclusively on African revolts aboard slave ships.  Shipboard insurrections, as the author points out, were regular occurances and he goes on to illustrate that fa

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Narmer- the Unifier?

 

 

From 3900 to 3200 B.C., what had once been small villages grew wealthy and powerful along what is now the Nilotic region in Northeast Africa. Two of these villages grew to such power, often due to trade and manufacturing of such items as funerary g

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