The traditional African roots of twerking [Videos]
Feb 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 ...
10 Black historical figures who changed the World
Jul 6, 2023 — Toussaint Louverture (1743 – 1803) Photo Credit: M.de Montfayon, Wikimedia Commons. Toussaint Loverture was the leader of the slave uprising in Haiti.
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5 African traditional ceremonial dance styles explained
Mar 1, 2018 — Dance is a central facet of life in many cultures throughout the African continent. As the New Encyclopedia beautifully explains, “In Africa, dance is a means of marking life experiences ...
Read Nelson Mandela’s fiery 1997 speech on ... - Face2Face Africa
Jul 18, 2020 — South Africa’s first Black president and anti-apartheid activist, Nelson Mandela, was born on this day in 1918. Nelson Mandela Day celebrates the life and values of a global icon, a man who ...
How Michael Jackson struggled with vitiligo and turned white
Aug 29, 2018 — As the world celebrates World Vitiligo Day on June 25, one person whose condition was a mystery to many comes to mind. This was the King of Pop Michael Jackson who coincidentally died on the same ...
The Truth Behind Black Africans with Blue Eyes - Face2Face Africa
May 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 ...
The shocking history of enslavement of 1.5 million white …
May 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 ...
Africans who played an active role in the Transatlantic slave trade
Dec 2, 2018 — There were recorded protests by West African chiefs and traders after the abolition of slave trade. According to Nigerian author Tunde Obadina: “When Britain abolished the slave trade in 1807 ...
The story of Anthony Johnson - Face2Face Africa
Jun 5, 2018 — The history of slavery in the Americas has always been marred by its deep racial past. So much so that stories like those of Anthony Johnson, a black man who was one of the first people to legally ...