History

Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable is the founder and first resident of the city of Chicago. DuSable was born around 1745 in Saint-Marc, in Saint-Domingue, and...

Throughout Black History Month, Nofi will publish articles by the late Runoko Rashidi that explore the richness and diversity of the lives of Black...

Ikhlas Khan was an East African who, in the 17th century, became Prime Minister of the Indian state of Bijapur. By Sandro CAPO CHICHI /...

Malik Ambar (1549–1626) was a general and prime minister of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate in India. Born in Ethiopia, he rose from the status of...

On March 20, 1916, Ota Benga took his own life, broken by a world that had treated him as an exotic curiosity. Exhibited at...

The recent African origin of modern humans, often nicknamed the “Out of Africa” theory, is the most widely accepted model describing the geographical origin...

Nofi presents an article by the researcher in cosmogony and African history, Abdoullah Aneowar, regarding the origin of North Africans. By Abdoullah Aneowar, researcher in...

What if, instead of using the word “slaves,” we used the words “enslaved people”? Today, most historians speak of enslaved people instead of “slaves.” By moving...

A large part of the people of Réunion today have African origins. This article offers a historical overview of that presence. Before slavery The aptly named...