Europe – Italy
The Partition of Africa (1886-1914)
The Partition of Africa began in earnest with the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, and was the cause of most of...
Roman Slavery and the Question of Race
Most historians of the Roman world have decoupled the concepts of bondage and race that are central to the arguments...
Patrick Vieira (1976- )
Patrick Vieira, one of Europe’s leading soccer players, was born in the Cape Verdean community of Dakar, Senegal, on June...
Axum (ca. 100 B.C.E.-ca. 650 A.D.)
Located in the northeast region of contemporary Ethiopia, the city of Axum sits on a high plateau next to the...
Battle of Adwa (Adowa), 1896
In March, 1896, Ethiopian forces under the leadership of Emperor Menelik II surprised the world by defeating an Italian Army...
Mansa Musa (1280-1337)
Mansa Musa, fourteenth century emperor of the Mali Empire, is the medieval African ruler most known to the world outside...
Robert S. Duncanson (1817-1872)
Robert S. Duncanson was a landscape and portrait painter born in northern New York in 1817. His father was Scottish...
Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (1892-1975)
Emperor Haile Selassie was born on July 23, 1892 as Tafari Makonnen just outside the city of Harrar in Enjersa...
Edmonia Lewis (1845-1907)
Edmonia Lewis, the first woman of African American and Native American ancestry to gain notoriety as a sculptor, was born...
