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Tag: Africa – Morocco

Timbuktu (ca. 1100- )

Located at the southern edge of the Sahara Desert and six miles north of the Niger River in the present-day nation of Mali, Timbuktu has been a centuries-old, significant city in West Africa.  In the 14th Century it became the commercial, religious and cultural center … Read MoreTimbuktu (ca. 1100- )

Posted on June 29, 2008February 6, 2023by contributed by: Julianna Tesfu
Global African History: Global African History: Places

Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)

Psychiatrist and anti-colonial cultural theorist, Frantz Fanon was born in the French West Indies, in Fort-de-France, Martinique on July 20, 1925. His father, Félix Casimir Fanon, was a black customs service inspector. His mother, Eléanore Médélice, was half French and owned a hardware and drapery … Read MoreFrantz Fanon (1925-1961)

Posted on June 9, 2008May 25, 2020by contributed by: Anna Micklin
Global African History: Global African History: People

Esteban (?-1539)

Esteban, an enslaved Moroccan, made the first contact with the native peoples of what is now the American Southwest.  Fraught with misunderstandings, that encounter led to Esteban’s untimely demise in 1539 and prefigured the violence that would characterize the Spanish conquest and subsequent colonization of … Read MoreEsteban (?-1539)

Posted on January 19, 2007April 2, 2023by contributed by: Dedra McDonald Birzer
African American History: African American History: People

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