The Osun Osogbo River
Osogbo, capital of Osun State, is again agog, as tourists, culture enthusiasts and indigenes converged to celebrate the Osun Osogbo festival.
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Oguejiofo Annu: The Chama Vase
Ogunsola: The Yahweh Fraud (II)
THEOPHILE OBENGA ON AFRICAN HISTORY
African Towns of South America – by Kiloecho
Joachim Murat: Franco-Moorish General and King of Naples
Joachim Murat
RENOWNED CAVALRY LEADER OF NAPOLEON AND KING OF NAPLES (1767-1815)
JOACHIM MURAT, who assumed the name of Joachim Napoleon, and was later King of Naples, came from the Department of Lot, in the Auvergne, France, a region known for the Negroid strain in its inhabitants, many of whom are descended from the Moors who settled in that region after they had been driven out of Spain. It is estimated that more than a million of these people of African ancestry migrated to that region. This is the same part of France from which came Bernadotte, King of Sweden, and Pierre Laval, twice Premier of France, both of whom were dark-skinned and were commonly said to be of Moorish ancestry. In fact, Murat himself claimed descent from a Moorish king, and Frederic Masson, noted writer on Napoleon’s cavalry, said it was commonly believed that he was of that ancestry.
Somalia’s Peace-Keeping On A Budget
Can Somalia’s cheap peacekeeping defeat al-Shabab?
THE Islamist group al-Shabab, that controls large parts of central and southern Somalia, has recently suffered significant defeats at the hands of Amisom, the African Union force that has been fighting the al-Qaeda-allied militants. The BBC’s Gabriel Gatehouse is in Mogadishu and has been travelling with them.
