History

In 1886, John Pemberton, an American pharmacist, created the original formula of Coca-Cola. What you may not know is that one of the ingredients...

Contemporary accounts report the privileged nature of women’s status in the medieval West African Empire of Mali. Ibn Battuta and the status of women in...

Discover how Muhammad al-Mahdi rallied followers and became an influential missionary in nineteenth-century Sudan. The heroic journey of Muhammad al-Mahdi From the first half of the...

Explore the life and legacy of Beatriz Kimpa Vita, an influential 18th-century prophetess in the Kingdom of Kongo, who left a deep mark on...

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...