FEAR OF BLACKNESS PART II – Dana Marniche

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FEAR OF BLACKNESS PART II

EARLY DESCRIPTIONS OF THE CENTRAL ARABIAN TRIBESMEN WHO COMPRISED THE “MOORS” OF SPAIN

“The Moors of the host wore silks and colourful clothes which they had taken as booty… their horses’ reins were like fire, their faces as black as pitch, the handsomest among them was black as a cooking pot and their eyes blazed like fire; their horses as swift as leopards, their horsemen more cruel than the wolf that comes to a sheepfold in the night…Oh luckless Spain!” description of the Moors written in the 1200s A.D. and cited in, An Introduction to African Civilizations, by Willis N. Huggins and John J. Jackson, New York, 1937, and in Colin Smith’s, Christians and Moors in Spain vol. 1 2nd edition p. 97. read more

The Migrant Black Birds of Mauretania, Ethiopia and Europa – By OguEjiOfo Annu

The Black Birds of Mauretania and Ethiopia – Migrational Patterns of Black African Birds

Some 500 million birds are estimated to migrate from Africa to Europe and Asia every year since the beginning of time. These birds, some of them as small as 9 grams undertake the annual migration of thousands of miles between the two continents to find food and suitable climate. read more

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