by StanleyFreeman | Jun 17, 2024 | Global African History, People
Ngina Kenyetta is the former First Lady of Kenya, widow of Mzee Jomo Kenyetta (the first president of Kenya), the mother of Uhuru Kenyetta (Kenya’s fourth president), and a recipient of the Macky Sall Prize for Dialogue in Africa (2019). She was born Ngina Muhoho on...
by | Apr 17, 2022 | African Head of State, Global African History, People
Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta was the fourth president of Kenya. He was born on October 26, 1961, in Nairobi, the son of Kenya’s first president, Jomo Kenyatta, and his fourth wife, Mama Ngina Muhoho. As a youth, he attended Loreto Covent school and St. Mary’s School in...
by | Apr 17, 2022 | African Head of State, Global African History, People
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar (popularly known as Aden Adde) was the first president of Somalia. He was born on December 9, 1908, in Beledweyne, Somalia while the country was colonized by the Italian government. Daar was orphaned at an early age and raised by members of...
by | Mar 9, 2022 | African Head of State, Global African History, People
Milton Apollo Obote was the first Prime Minister and second President of Uganda. Obote was born in the village of Akoroko in Uganda on December 28, 1925. He was the third of nine children born to his parents who were farmers. Obote was from the Lango ethnic group....
by DrewGamboa | Jan 27, 2022 | African American History, Events
The four century (1460-1860) transatlantic slave trade is responsible for the involuntary migration of 388,000 enslaved Africans to the United States according to historians’ best estimates. However, the U.S. has witnessed a much larger influx of voluntary African...
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