Escalation, a new American President, and a failure to honor treaties, led to a declaration of war between the Barbary State of Tripolitania and the United States of America.Recorded as ... Read More

"Man's flesh, he says, is good to eat, very good, and he wishes you would try eat it...He has no slaves, no prisoners of war, no cemeteries, so you must ... Read More

Karen, USA, emailed me recently saying: "I read The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay. It is a fictionalized account of South Africa. I have a question about ... Read More

San rock art often depicts the animals found in Southern Africa. Such images are skilfully rendered, with a variety of poses, and a close understanding of the animal's form - ... Read More

"On my visits to America, I discovered that the old Marxist dictum, 'From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,' was probably more in force in ... Read More

On the night of 4 April, 1906, Bambatha kaMancinza, one of the chiefs of the Zondi clan, had gathered together his warriors and attacked a police patrol, killing four white ... Read More

The Qur'an prescribes a humanitarian approach to slavery -- free men could not be enslaved, and those faithful to foreign religions could live as protected persons. However, the spread of ... Read More

Thirteen years ago the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa opened. One of the best books about the process, Country of My Skull, was written by South African journalist ... Read More

"The church cannot uplift a man; it can only help to provide the conditions and the opportunity for him to co-operate with his fellows to uplift himself." Julius Kambarage Nyerere, first ... Read More

The assassination of Chris Hani, the charismatic leader of the South African Communist Party, on 10 April 1993 was pivotal to the ending of Apartheid. Find out why he was ... Read More

Jomo Kenyatta (who was known to his followers as Burning Spear) and five other co-accused were sentenced to seven years hard labor for their alleged part in the Mau Mau ... Read More

"All notions of sovereignty with respect to Rwanda should be completely forgotten and we should just go in and stop the killing." Nigerian Nobel Literature Laureate Wole Soyinka, Los Angeles Times, ... Read More

Lewis Brown, a retired British lecturer, has placed his collection of Edmond Fortier postcards on the net - to be found at http://www.africard.co.uk/. The above website covers postcards created between 1900 ... Read More