by taylorsolutionsinc | Dec 16, 2024
Global African History Timeline YearEventsSubjectCountryEra 5-2.5 million BCESkeletal remains uncovered suggest the Rift Valley in East Africa is home to the earliest human ancestors.Early Human AncestorsEthiopia1492-1600 4-2.7 million BCEHominid species...
by Caelen Anacker | Mar 16, 2010 | Global African History, People in Global African History
Henri Christophe was a military leader in the Haitian Revolution as well as president and later king of the young nation. Born into slavery in 1767, Christophe was brought to French colonial Haiti, known as Saint Domingue, most likely from Kitts. There he worked a...
by Caelen Anacker | Mar 11, 2010 | Global African History, Global Events
The Spanish colony of Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic) would be the target of aggression from its Hispaniola neighbor, French-ruled Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), in the early nineteenth century culminating in a twenty-two year occupation which would have long...
by Olga Bourlin | Feb 23, 2015 | Global African History, Places in Global African History
Port-au-Prince is the capital, largest city, commercial center, and chief port of the Republic of Haiti. Some 90% of Haiti’s investments and jobs are found in Port-au-Prince. Estimated to be about 1.2 million inhabitants (and nearly three million inhabitants in the...
by Melissa Turner | Dec 1, 2009 | Global African History, People in Global African History
Cyril Lionel Robert James was born in the British colony of Trinidad on January 4, 1901. James was a bright youth who absorbed literature, history, music, sports, and art-the foundational texts of Western civilization. He attended Queen’s Royal College in...
