by PascoePeggy | Mar 27, 2016 | Global African History, Places
The island of Zanzibar, now a part of Tanzania, was a nineteenth century East African trading empire that fell under the domination of the British who controlled it until the mid-twentieth century. Zanzibar is the leading producer of cloves in the world, which earned...
by PascoePeggy | Mar 27, 2016 | Global African History, People
Seyyid Said, also known as Said bin Sultan, was a resourceful and energetic sultan of Oman who moved the capital from Arabia to Zanzibar in order to initiate clove production and also greatly expanded the East African slave trade. Said’s father, Sultan bin Ahmad...
by BrianHoffman | Mar 27, 2016 | Global African History, People
Aliko Dangote is the first billionaire from Nigeria and is considered the richest black man in the world and the fifty-first richest person overall according to Forbes in 2016. He amassed his fortune by founding the Dangote Group, the multinational company that...
by JonasRay | Mar 27, 2016 | African American History, People
Fashion designer Stephen Burrows was born September 15, 1943, in Newark, New Jersey, to parents Gerald Burrows and Octavia Pennington. He attended elementary school in Newark and graduated from Arts High School in 1960. He then attended the Philadelphia Museum College...
by HarrisTrudier | Mar 21, 2016 | African American History, People
John Charles Robinson, nicknamed the Brown Condor, was an African American aviator who fought with the Imperial Ethiopian Air Force against Benito Mussolini and Fascist Italy during the Second Italian-Ethiopian War, 1935–1936. He is also known as the Father of the...
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