About the Second Edition
When We Ruled is by far the best general work on the ancient and medieval history of Black people there has ever been. This landmark publication, which is superbly illustrated with high quality photographs, maps and drawings, provides an extraordinary and cutting-edge synthesis of the archaeological data, the documentary evidence, and the historical linguistic research. […]
Africa Factfile – Nos. 1 -25
1. The human race is of African origin. The oldest known skeletal remains of anatomically modern humans (or homo sapiens) were excavated at sites in East Africa. Human remains were discovered at Omo in Ethiopia that were dated at 195,000 years old, the oldest known in the world. 2. Skeletons of pre-humans have been found […]
Africa Factfile – Nos. 26 – 50
26. West Africa had walled towns and cities in the pre-colonial period. Winwood Reade, an English historian visited West Africa in the nineteenth century and commented that: “There are . . . thousands of large walled cities resembling those of Europe in the Middle Ages, or of ancient Greece.” 27. Lord Lugard, an English official, […]
Africa Factfile – Nos. 51 – 75
51. The mediaeval Nigerian city of Benin was built to “a scale comparable with the Great Wall of China”. There was a vast system of defensive walling totalling 10,000 miles in all. Even before the full extent of the city walling had become apparent the Guinness Book of Records carried an entry in the 1974 […]
Africa Factfile – Nos. 76 – 100
76. Dr Albert Churchward, author of Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man, pointed out that writing was found in one of the stone built ruins: “Lt.-Col. E. L. de Cordes . . . who was in South Africa for three years, informed the writer that in one of the ‘Ruins’ there is a ‘stone-chamber,’ with […]
100 Greatest Black History Books
(and where to get them)
>> 100 Greatest Black History Books: 1 – 10 The Book of the Glory of the Blacks The Golden Age of West African Civilization Daily Life in the Kingdom of the Kongo Afrikan Genesis, Volume I African Origins of Major “Western Religions” Royal Arts of Africa Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization: Exploding the Myths: 001 […]
Abd-al-Mumin & Sarki Abdullah Burja
1. Abd-al-Mumin of the Almohades (ruled 1133-1163 AD) Moroccan Founder of the Almohad Empire that ruled in North Africa and Spain Abd-al-Mumin was a Negro Berber from Morocco. He became the leader of the Almohades, a radical Islamic movement that eventually became the Third Islamic Dynasty in Moslem Spain. Abd-al-Mumin took control of the movement […]
Mansa Abubakari II & Sultan Abu l-Hasan
3.Mansa Abubakari II of Mali (flourished 1311 AD)Malian king who sailed to America 181 years before Columbus An Egyptian scholar, Ibn Fadl Al-Umari, published Masalik ab Absar fi Mamalik al Amsar in Cairo around 1342. In the tenth chapter of this work, there is an account of two large maritime voyages ordered by the predecessor […]
Queen Ahmose-Nefertari & Pharaoh Akhenaten
7. Queen Ahmose-Nefertari of Ancient Egypt (flourished c.1709 BC)The most venerated figure in the history of Ancient Egypt Pharaoh Ahmose (ruled 1709-1683 BC) founded the Negro Eighteenth Egyptian Dynasty. Ahmose-Nefertari, his wife, was highly distinguished and did much to help reconstruct the country after centuries of foreign rule. She held the position of Second Prophet […]
Professor Ahmed Baba & Sonni Ali Ber
9. Professor Ahmed Baba of Songhai (died 1627 AD)Greatest scholar of the sixteenth century world The Songhai Empire ruled about two thirds of West Africa, including the lands now called Mali, Mauritania, Guinea, Senegal, Gambia, Northern Nigeria and Niger. When the Empire collapsed, due to an Arab and European invasion in 1591 AD, its intelligentsia […]
