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Mary Seacole: The Real Angel of The Crimea
Drama-documentary about the feisty, fearless and funny Victorian heroine Mary Seacole, a ‘doctress’ from Jamaica who sav...
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Mauritania: Slavery’s last stronghold
Mauritania’s endless sea of sand dunes hides an open secret: An estimated 10% to 20% of the population lives in slavery.
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May 25 – Today is African Liberation Day, Breaking The Chains of Oppression
ALD was founded in 1958 when Kwame Nkrumah convened the First Conference of Independent States held in Accra, Ghana and attended by...
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Meet the Rastafarians of Ethiopia, the spiritual migrants who have returned home
Being a Rastafarian is not all about ganja and dreadlocks. We visit the repatriated Rastafarians of Ethiopia who left Jamaica to liv...
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Meet the Richest Man Who Ever Lived
Meet the Richest Man Who Ever Lived
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Memories of Captivity
Memories of Captivity (2005, directed by Guilherme Fernandez and Isabel Castro) is the first filmic experience of Hebe Mattos and Ma...
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Menelik II, Independence in the Age of Imperialism
While much of Africa was falling to European imperialism in the 1800’s, Ethiopia managed to resist colonization and maintain i...
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Mengistu & others say H.I.M. followers more Ethiopians than native Ethiopians
“Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the lan...
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Mengistu say RasTafarians more Ethiopians than native Ethiopians
Mengistu say RasTafarians more Ethiopians than native Ethiopians
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Mental freedom and the omission of African achievement from history
We hang our hopes on economic development playing a large role in allowing us to reclaim our history from the West, but which comes...
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