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Malik Ambar, the African black General who ruled in India

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...

Ota Benga, the man broken by the gaze of the world

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

6 Arguments that prove the first human was of african origin

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

On the melanoderm origin of north africans, from antiquity to the present

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...

“‘Slaves’ VS. ‘enslaved people’”

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...

History of the african roots of the people of Réunion

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...

The Aksumite Empire (Ancient Ethiopia and Eritrea)

Cited in the third century of our era by the Persian prophet Mani as one of the four greatest empires of his time alongside...

How Europe structured Africa’s underdevelopment

Far from victim-based rhetoric, Nofi explores in an analytical way the historical, economic, and political processes through which Europe, via the slave trade, colonization,...

Matrilineality and african collapse: myth or reality?

Long ignored or misunderstood, African matrilineal societies are today wrongly accused of having weakened the continent in the face of colonization. By tracing the...

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