Africa history made (Marejeo)

Africa history made (Marejeo)

Thomas Fuller the African maths genius also known as "Negro Tom" and the "Virginia Calculator", was an enslaved African born in today Benin 🇧🇯 1710 and died in 1790 USA renowned for his mathematical abilities. Also known as a mental calculator.
shipped to America as a slave in 1724. He had remarkable powers of calculation, and late in his life was discovered by antislavery campaigners who used him as a demonstration that blacks were superior not inferior to whites in academics.
In this report, Rush stressed the credibility of Hartshorne and Coates. Rush retold how Hartshorne and Coates tested Fuller's mathematical abilities as follows:
First. Upon being asked, how many seconds there are in a year and a half, he answered in about two minutes, 47,304,000.
Second. On being asked how many seconds a man has lived, who is seventy years, seven- teen days and twelve hours old, he answered, in a minute and a half, 2,210,500,800.
One of the gentlemen, who employed himself with his pen in making these calculations, told him he was wrong, and that the sum was not so great as he had said-upon which the old man hastily replied, “top, massa, you forget de leap year.” On adding the seconds of the leap years to the others, the amount of the whole in both their sums agreed exactly.
Third. The following question was then proposed to him: suppose a farmer has six sows, and each sow has six female pigs, the first year, and they all increase in the same proportion, to the end of eight years, how many sows will the farmer then have? In ten minutes, he answered, 34,588,806. The difference of time between his answering this, and the two former questions, was occasioned by a trifling mistake he made from a misapprehension of the question.
Despite Fuller's perfect answers, it appeared to Hartshorne and Coates that his mental abilities must have once been greater. Rush wrote:
He was grey-headed, and exhibited several other marks of the weakness of old age. He had worked hard upon a farm during the whole of life but had never been intemperate in the use of spirituous liquors. He spoke with great respect of his mistress, and mentioned in a particular manner his obligations to her for refusing to sell him, which she had been tempted to by offers of large sums of money from several persons. One of the gentlemen, Mr. Coates, having remarked in his presence that it was a pity he had not an education equal to his genius, he said, "No, Massa, it is best I had no learning, for many learned men be great fools."
No one could challenge his abilities in mathematics.
 

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Wole Soyinka's most famous works that can be compared to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart include:

●The Interpreters: Soyinka's first novel, which along with Achebe's Things Fall Apart are considered two of the most important works of African literature from the 1950s-1960s period.
●The Lion and the Jewel: One of Soyinka's most popular plays, written in a style that combines elements of Elizabethan drama with African oral tradition, similar to how Achebe blended Igbo folklore into the narrative of Things Fall Apart.
●Kongi's Harvest: Another well-known play by Soyinka that explores themes of African culture and tradition, like Achebe's novels.

While Soyinka is considered a master of poetic, complex prose and drama, Achebe's style in Things Fall Apart is more straightforward narrative realism.

But both authors were pioneers in establishing African literature on the global stage and asserting the dignity of African societies.

Their works from this era are considered seminal in the development of modern African literature.Wole Soyinka's most famous works that can be compared to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart include:

●The Interpreters: Soyinka's first novel, which along with Achebe's Things Fall Apart are considered two of the most important works of African literature from the 1950s-1960s period.
●The Lion and the Jewel: One of Soyinka's most popular plays, written in a style that combines elements of Elizabethan drama with African oral tradition, similar to how Achebe blended Igbo folklore into the narrative of Things Fall Apart.
●Kongi's Harvest: Another well-known play by Soyinka that explores themes of African culture and tradition, like Achebe's novels.

While Soyinka is considered a master of poetic, complex prose and drama, Achebe's style in Things Fall Apart is more straightforward narrative realism.

But both authors were pioneers in establishing African literature on the global stage and asserting the dignity of African societies.
 

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Wole Soyinka's most famous works that can be compared to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart include:

●The Interpreters: Soyinka's first novel, which along with Achebe's Things Fall Apart are considered two of the most important works of African literature from the 1950s-1960s period.
●The Lion and the Jewel: One of Soyinka's most popular plays, written in a style that combines elements of Elizabethan drama with African oral tradition, similar to how Achebe blended Igbo folklore into the narrative of Things Fall Apart.
●Kongi's Harvest: Another well-known play by Soyinka that explores themes of African culture and tradition, like Achebe's novels.

While Soyinka is considered a master of poetic, complex prose and drama, Achebe's style in Things Fall Apart is more straightforward narrative realism.

But both authors were pioneers in establishing African literature on the global stage and asserting the dignity of African societies.

Their works from this era are considered seminal in the development of modern African literature.Wole Soyinka's most famous works that can be compared to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart include:

●The Interpreters: Soyinka's first novel, which along with Achebe's Things Fall Apart are considered two of the most important works of African literature from the 1950s-1960s period.
●The Lion and the Jewel: One of Soyinka's most popular plays, written in a style that combines elements of Elizabethan drama with African oral tradition, similar to how Achebe blended Igbo folklore into the narrative of Things Fall Apart.
●Kongi's Harvest: Another well-known play by Soyinka that explores themes of African culture and tradition, like Achebe's novels.

While Soyinka is considered a master of poetic, complex prose and drama, Achebe's style in Things Fall Apart is more straightforward narrative realism.

But both authors were pioneers in establishing African literature on the global stage and asserting the dignity of African societies.
 
The Greeks visited Egypt (kemet) as students to learn from the Africans

Plato studied in Egypt for 13 years Pythagoras studied philosophy, geometry and medicine in Egypt for 22 years. Thales, the first Greek philosopher to study in Egypt for 7 years. Hippocrates, who is called the father of medicine, recognized the Egyptian multigene Imhotep as the father of Medicine. The "Pythagoras theorem" was used to build the pyramids in Egypt 1000 years before Pythagoras was born. Plato said that Egyptian education makes students more alert and humane. Plato told his students to go to Egypt if they wanted to study the minds of the great philosophers. Heredot, the Greek historian described ancient Egypt as the cradle of civilization. Our ancestors opened the doors of our Nation to foreign peoples, these guests were received with respect and honor according to our traditions but they used our kindness to destroy our Nation.

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"I LEFT THE INDUSTRY BECAUSE THEY'LL MAKE YOU AND STILL BR£AK YOU" -Akon

"One of the things I always remember that worked and keeps working for me everyday was my meeting the Enigma, one of the greatest b!ackman to walk the surface of this earth Michael Jackson.

When we first met at Palms Recording Studio Las Vegas, I was surprised he called me by my botanical name Dambala, I was all surprised as he gave me a warm hug and whispered into my ears that I am something he tried to run away from which turned out to be a scar on him.

MJ was so full of love that the aura around him was contagious, we held hands and recorded HOLD MY HANDS.

He told me never to repeat the m!stakes or thread on the part he took for they will make you and br£ak you.

After our meeting, in 2007 I launched Akon Lighting Africa, an initiative to bring solar-powered electricity to off-grid communities across the continent of Africa.

Thank you MJ, your advice saved me" UKITAKA MAFANIKIO tatua CHANGAMOTO za watu
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