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24/06/2025

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The returned items include bronze statues of a bird, a warrior king, a cockerel, and a wooden ancestral head originally taken from the Kingdom of Benin during the late 19th century colonial raids.

Some of the artifacts were symbolically handed over to the Oba of Benin in Edo State, where they were first looted over a century ago, per the BBC.

📸: AFP

23/06/2025

Which European Countries Colonized Africa?

Between the 1880s and 1914, during the Scramble for Africa, European powers divided and colonized nearly the entire African continent. Here's a simplified overview of which countries colonized
where:

🇬🇧 Britain Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Sudan, Malawi, Botswana, British Somaliland, Egypt (shared with France)

🇫🇷 France Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Benin, Niger, Chad, Guinea, Algeria, Tunisia, Madagascar, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville), Djibouti, Morocco (shared with Spain)

🇩🇪 Germany (before World War I) Tanzania, Namibia, Cameroon, Togo

🇧🇪 Belgium Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi

🇵🇹 Portugal Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe

🇮🇹 Italy Libya, Italian Somaliland, Eritrea, briefly Ethiopia (1936–1941)

🇪🇸 Spain Equatorial Guinea, Western Sahara, parts of Morocco

🌍 Independent Nations Only Liberia and Ethiopia remained independent during this period.

The legacy of colonization still shapes Africa’s borders, languages, and economies today.

22/06/2025

19/06/2025

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18/06/2025

Ghanaian-born tech entrepreneur Danny Manu created the world’s first wireless earbuds that translate over 40 languages in real time—without internet. His invention, the Mymanu CLIK, breaks barriers for global communication using offline technology. The device is now gaining worldwide attention for its impact on travel, education, and humanitarian work. 🌍

15/06/2025

The Mutapa State was founded in the fifteenth century, following the sudden fall of Great Zimbabwe. It was first seen by Swahili and Portuguese traders in the 15th and 16th century, respectively. Located in what is now northern Zimbabwe, south of the Zambezi River, its territory has been greatly overstated by early cartographers and chroniclers, who led historians astray into thinking it extended all the way to the Indian Ocean and the Kalahari Desert.

As early as the sixteenth century, the polity exercised hegemony over the northernmost parts of the Zimbabwe Plateau and the neighboring Zambezi lowlands. Manyika, Barwe, Uteve, and Danda are rumored to have broken away as independent kingdoms. Limiting it to Chidima on the Zambezi by the nineteenth century.

The Portuguese, who arrived on the Zimbabwe Plateau around the turn of the sixteenth century, gathered first-hand and second-hand reports of the Mutapa State. The materials’ emphasis on commerce and judicial intrigue makes them inevitably partial. Many different kinds of knowledge concerning the people who were formerly ruled by the state are transmitted through oral traditions. North of the Zambezi Escarpment, in the Plateau and Dande, archaeologists have been working since the 1980s to locate state-related communities.

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