by FikesRobert | Jan 20, 2023 | Events, Global African History
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Anglo-Zulu War was a conflict between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom from January 11 to July 4, 1879, in South Africa. The background of the battle began with the British having interests in Zululand. They specifically...
by PascoePeggy | Mar 4, 2016 | African American History, Concepts, Global African History, Groups & Organizations
The Almoravids, or al-Murabitun as they called themselves, were an Islamic Berber dynasty that established an empire in Morocco and eventually took it over a wide region of Northwest Africa including modern Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, and part of Algeria. ...
by RobertStirling | May 17, 2015 | Global African History, People
Spanish Conquistadors in Chile “Image Ownership: Public Domain” Juan Beltrán was the illegitimate mulatto son of Juan Beltrán de Magaña and a well-known black conquistadore of Villarica, Chile. Because of the chaos of the region, the fact that his mother...
by RobertStirling | May 14, 2015 | Global African History, People
“Image Ownership: Public Domain” Juan García was one of the best known black auxiliaries aiding Francisco Pizarro in the conquest of Peru between 1532 and 1542. He was born free near Jaraicejo, Spain in 1495, most likely of African and Spanish descent,...
by RobertStirling | Apr 28, 2015 | Global African History, People
Map of Yucatan “Image Ownership: Public Domain” Sebastián Toral was one of the earliest black conquistadores in the New World. He helped the Spanish to conquer the southern Mexican state of Yucatán in the 1530s and 1540s. Although historians do not know...
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