The traditional African roots of twerking [Videos]
WEBFeb 14, 2018 · Twerking, the hip thrusting, waist wining, booty popping dance most prominent in hip-hop videos, became widely popular when DJ Jubilee combined the words “twist” and “jerk” in his song, Do ...
5 African traditional ceremonial dance styles explained
WEBMar 1, 2018 · As the New Encyclopedia beautifully explains, “In Africa, dance is a means of marking life experiences, encouraging abundant crops, honoring kings and queens, celebrating weddings, marking rites ...
10 Black historical figures who changed the World
WEBJul 6, 2023 · Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Martin Luther King, Kwame Nkrumah, Harriet Tubman, and Malcolm X, among other Black extraordinary leaders and individuals, have positively altered the course of ...
The real story of the last days of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
WEBAug 27, 2018 · Haile Selassie, born Ras Tafari Makonnen, was everything from monarch to the returned messiah as believed by the Rastafari movement which reveres him as God incarnate. He was also the Chairperson ...
Face2Face Africa | Black News, Culture, History & Society...
WEBKweku Sampson. Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has voiced reservations about the upcoming film adaptation of his life story, revealing his discomfort with seeing his experiences portrayed on screen ...
The shocking history of enslavement of 1.5 million white …
WEBMay 30, 2018 · The Barbary pirates were known to have demanded tributes or ransoms from American and Swedish vessels in the Mediterranean Sea or attack European and American ships, especially in Baltimore ...
The Truth Behind Black Africans with Blue Eyes - Face2Face Africa
WEBMay 31, 2016 · Professor Hans Eiberg and his team studied this at the University of Copenhagen. They studied the genes of 800 men and women with blue eyes and concluded that all of them had the exact same gene ...
How Michael Jackson struggled with vitiligo and turned white
WEBAug 29, 2018 · The celebrated American singer, songwriter, and dancer, who was one of the most popular entertainers in the world, was diagnosed with vitiligo in 1984. He came public with the condition in 1993 on ...
Exploring the Complex ‘Love’ Affairs Between Enslaved Black Men …
WEBFeb 5, 2020 · Delve into the controversial and complex relationships between enslaved Black men and rich White women during slavery ️ This article examines the dynamics of power, exploitation, and forbidden ...
Africans who played an active role in the Transatlantic slave trade
WEBBetween 1525 and 1866, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to North America, the Caribbean and South America, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. Only about 10.7 million survived ...