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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
From light to dark: how Africans got so many tones of skin color
WEBSep 30, 2022 · Recent scientific findings show that the early dwellers in Africa had paler skins which later evolved into dark ones. The skin of Africans has undergone various changes over the last 900,000 years ...
The story of Anthony Johnson - Face2Face Africa
WEBJun 5, 2018 · The story of Anthony Johnson. Blackpast.org note that “Antonio the Negro” worked on the tobacco plantation of Edward Bennett near Warresquioake, Virginia. He married “Mary a Negro woman ...
How did Africa really get its name? - Face2Face Africa
WEBJun 24, 2018 · For a long time, the origin of the name “Africa” has been a subject of dispute as many historians have not been able to come to an agreement on how the continent got its name. The word ...