African History

Ota Benga was a Congolese man taken from Africa to the US, where he was featured in an anthropology exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904, and exhibited with monkeys in 19...

“There is still a powerful tendency to deny that humanity originated in Africa and that the African peoples of the world are related to each other, or even that Black people are indigenous to Africa.” Howev...

The Aba Women's Riot, also known as the Women's War, was an insurrection in Nigeria when it was occupied by the British to redress social, political, and economic grievances. The protest, which was organised an...

The Maji Maji War in Tanganyika (modern-day Tanzania), beginning in July 1905 and ending in July 1907, was the most significant African challenge to German colonial rule. The war lasted two years and involved ...

The Senegalese Tirailleurs (French: Tirailleurs Sénégalais) were West African Colonial Army troops who fought for the French. Despite the name, the Senegalese Tirailleurs were composed of soldiers recruited a...

“I must say this: if you, the men of Asante, will not go forward, then we will. We, the women, will. I shall call upon my fellow women. We will fight! We will fight till the last of us falls in the battlefiel...