Africa history made (Marejeo)

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Is it a coincidence that they died on exactly the same day? Something is amiss here. More information is required on this.

The history of Shaka isn't just the history of a great individual ruler. To understand how Shaka was able to do what he did, we have to understand that Shaka was able to build a powerful Zulu Empire through revolutionizing Zulu warfare. This meant transforming the way that Zulus engaged in war and prepared for war. We have to understand that the process of consolidating the different ethnic groups in the region under a single political authority started with Dingiswayo and Shaka continued Dingiswayo's work. We should also look at the fact that the Zulu Empire continued to remain a military power even after Shaka was executed.

This is what I mean when I state that studying African history isn't about studying great individual rulers. We have to develop a holistic approach to how we study and view our history.

Lest We Forget!
53Years ago today, agents of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) popped Champagne in their offices in Accra to celebrate the coup they organised against Africa's leading light, Kwame Nkrumah. They were aided by local compradors.
45 years later, NATO killed Muammar Gaddafi, whose country, Libya, was, by all indices, the most prosperous of African nations.
Sadly, many of us refused to learn any lesson and we joined in celebrating the sham independence and 'human rights,' the imperialists told us we enjoy.

The Ancestors did their best, and today enjoy their Peace.

We remain the world's laughing stock and lack the intelligence to even comprehend how far behind we are.

Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. SEE AETHIOPS.
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In other words, Zeus had a lot of melanin... No, we are not black washing history. We are correcting it. We are cleaning our identity from all the dirt that has been put on it. Rebranding Africa.
I already know that many people will disagree with this post. I only advise you to do your own research. I have been as shocked as you the first time I have discovered this fact. As always, they knew it, they just kept it quiet.
Black is not only King. It is God.
A way to make people understand why image matters so much is to make them understand where we came from. Understand what has always been the norm of blackness on this planet. And how low we landed. You should wonder what happened? Why did they work so hard to destroy our image? Understanding this should be enough for you to understand why caring about our image is so important.

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Queen Amanirenas

“At the death of her husband, Emperor Teriqetas – who died in battle”(Face to Face Africa), taking the throne in the the Kingdom of Kush, Queen Amanirenas would go on to become one of the most well-known female rulers of the ancient world. She was the most famous “Kandake” out of the four female queens who ruled in Kush.

Amanirenas is known as the queen with one eye, since her fierce military determination led her to lose it in battle (History of Royal Women). In addition to her known war tactics, she goes on to negotiate a treaty with the most powerful male ruler at the time, Augustus Caesar (Lisapo ya Kama).

Her Rule

During her rule, the Roman empire was expanding and conquering various territories such as Britain and Cleopatra’s Egypt.

The Romans quickly started pushing the south borders of Egypt into Kush, threatening the Nubians. Amanirenas led various attacks with thousands of soldiers into Roman territory and dethroned statues of emperor Augustus Caesar (24 B.C.). To show her distaste for the emperor, she beheaded a statue of him and “buried it under the entranceway of her palace so everyone could walk over her enemy”(History of Royal Women).

This act is not only ironic, but also a slap in the face to Augustus Caesar, since the Nubians will have to walk over the mighty emperor’s head walking into Kush. If that isn’t enough to prove her unique comedic tendencies, Amanirenas is believed to have fed her captives to her pet lion”(History of Royal Women).

Years passed of constant conflict between Kush and the Roman Empire, which finally led to Kandake Amanirenas sitting down at a negotiation table with Augustus Caesar, himself. A treaty was signed, which led the Kushites to be free from Roman rule for the following 300 years (Face to Face Africa).

Her Legacy

After spending her life fighting for her country, Amanirenas died in 4226 (Lisapo ya Kama). She played a significant role in securing Kush for centuries after, since if it weren’t for her leadership, the kingdom would’ve died the moment Romans set their eyes on the land. Queen Amanirenas is set to become the subject of a movie within the next few years “produced by Will Packer with Mark Rosenthal as the scriptwriter”(Face to Face Africa).

Amanirenas (Illustrated by Freelance artist Jonathan Fado)
Kandake Amanirenas intrigued me since she is one of the most famous rulers in the ancient world, yet I had never heard of her. Being assigned to watch an episode of the PBS documentary Africa’s Great Civilizations, I later came to discover that I had watched the wrong episode.

However, the “wrong episode” of the documentary that I watched contained information about Queen Amanirenas that I, otherwise, would have never came across.

Most common school history textbooks only emphasizes a woman ruler when discussing Cleopatra’s empire, even though she was ultimately defeated by the Romans. Making peace with one of the largest empires at the time (Romans) is an extraordinary and nearly impossible task.

Amanirenas’ courage and bravery inspire me to not only work harder in every aspect of life, but not accept weakness as my role for being a woman. Even though history tends to focus on women being oppressed, Amanirenas demonstrated that this is not always the case.

Works Cited
Barger, Brittani. “Amanirenas – Fierce Ruler of Kush.” History of RoyalWomen

Johnson, Elizabeth Ofosuah. “Amanirenas, the Brave One-Eyed African Queen Who Led an Army against the Romans in 24BC.”

Kama, Lisapo. “Kandake Amanirenas, the Greatest African Woman Ever.” Lisapo Ya Kama

LEARNING, AE. “Queen Amanirenas.”

𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗔 𝗝𝗔𝗥𝗕𝗢𝗥𝗢 (1903-1986)

Caterina Jarboro was born one of three children in Wilmington, North Carolina, to an American Indian mother and a black father who was a local barber. She was christened Katherine Lee Yarborough at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Wilmington. She received elementary school education at St. Thomas, and later attended Gregory Normal School. Her parents died when she was thirteen years old, and in 1916, she traveled to Brooklyn, New York, to live with an aunt.

Jarboro studied music in New York where her exceptional ability soon became apparent. By 1921 she appeared in popular theater musicals, such as Sissle and Blake’s “Shuffle Along,” and later in James P. Johnson’s, “Running Wild.” Like many black musicians and performers, she sought more opportunity for study and experience in Europe. Under contract to the San Carlo Opera Company, Jarboro debuted in Verdi’s Aida in 1930 at the Puccini Theater in Milan, Italy. She continued to study in France and to perform in small productions in Europe until 1932 when she returned to the United States.

In 1933 Alfredo Salmaggi, recruited her to perform Aida with the Chicago Civic Opera at the New York Hippodrome Theater. The music editor at the New York Times praised her vivid performance and her perfect Italian diction. This appearance made Jarboro the first black opera singer to perform with a major company in America. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt expressed gratitude to Salmaggi for introducing Jarboro and other black opera singers to the American stage in her column, “My Day,” in 1946.

Jarboro followed Aida with an outstanding performance of Seleka in Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine in New York. She also created and performed the lead role in Cameron White’s Ouanga at the Chicago Ravinia Festival. The New York Metropolitan Opera Association invited her to become a member, but when they realized she was not Italian, but Afro-Indian, they denied her membership. After a lengthy and successful career she declined membership when a second invitation was extended.

Jarboro returned to Europe where she repeated her American roles with great success. In 1936 she created in French the starring role in Die Konigin Von Saba, at the Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Belgium. Jarboro continued to perform regularly in several European countries until her return to the United States in 1941 where she often gave benefit performances and concerts at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall in New York City. She retired from singing in 1955. Jarboro was honored at a ceremony in Wilmington, North Carolina’s Thalian Hall in 1975, and a star in her memory was placed on the city’s Walk of Fame in 1999. Jarboro died in New York City in 1986 at the age of eighty-three. She was survived by a brother, Joseph, of Philadelphia, and a sister, Anna Gayle, of Palmetta, Florida.

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We have been fools for way too long. The gold reserve in UK is literally STOLEN gold from Africa. No wonder it's called common wealth, Our GOLD, their benefits. Yet the Brits have audacity to call us poor africans. The only poverty we have is lack of strong MINDS and backbone .

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