Fireworks burst over Tahrir Square and Egypt exploded with joy and tears of relief after pro-democracy protesters brought down President Hosni Mubarak with a momentous march on his palaces and state TV. Mubarak, who until the end seemed unable to grasp the depth of resentment over his three decades of authoritarian rule, finally resigned Friday and handed power to the military.
Category Archives: Africa House
Good King Wenceslas – A Story Retold – By Mazi Omeife J.
Gravettians: the African people of Paleolithic Europe – Marc Washington
Africans and 4,500 years of Ear ring – by Marc Washington
The fire that Mohammed Boazizi lit in Africa still burning
Uganda’s President opposes UN on Ouattara – News Report
The Origins of the Ethiopian State – By Prof Ayo
The Origins of the Ethiopian State
Prof. Ayo
Africanologist
The Ethiopian region extending from East Africa to the Upper Egypt was settled in the early Palaeolithic period. As a result of climatic change, the different tribes of Ethiopia were forced to live in the savannas surrounding the Nile. They become hunters, fruit gatherers and fishers. The drying up of the savannah during Neolithic period resulted in mass dispersion of the population to the different parts of Africa, the Middle East and southwest Asia. Some Ethiopians migrated towards the southern parts of Africa in the direction of Congo and Zambezi basins and others went towards the west along the banks the river Oya (Niger). In the most ancient time black people inhabited the northern part of Africa and the Middle East. The Sumerians were black people who lived in Mesopotamia. The indigenous inhabitant ants of the Indian sub-continent, the Dravidians, the original inhabitants of Australia, Tasmania, and Polynesia, New Zealand are all black people.
Côte d’Ivoire: Gbagbo and the Ivorian Test – Moving Beyond Anti-Imperialist Rhetoric
Côte d’Ivoire: Gbagbo and the Ivorian Test – Moving Beyond Anti-Imperialist Rhetoric
By Horace Campbell
Côte d’Ivoire remains in a troubling state of political deadlock, Horace Campbell discusses the increasing militarisation of politics, the history of external interests in the country and broader conditions behind the contested 2010 election.
What is Semitic? -By Prof Ayo
What is Semitic?
Prof. Ayo
Africanologist
Semitic is a designation for a group of languages both in Africa and Asia. Schloezer introduced the term. According to the Genesis, people who spoke the Semitic languages are the decendants of Shem the son of Noah. On the other hand, the term Cushitic is given to the nations of kam, the son of Noah and the father of Cush.