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Cleopatra VII (69-30 B.C.)
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Cleopatra was pictured as a distinct African woman, dark in color. Born in 69 B.C., Cleopatra came to the throne, when she was 18 years old.
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More nonsense has been written about Cleopatra than any other African queen. Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinct African woman, dark in color. Born in 69 B.C., Cleopatra came to the throne that she shared with her brother, Ptolemy XIII, when she was 18 years old.
Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt, has come down to us through twenty centuries, as the perfect example of the seductive art in woman. With her beauty, learning, culture and charm, Cleopatra held two successive masters of the world; Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Cleopatra aligned herself with Julius Caesar, who reinforced her power. Their political and sexual relationship was a maneuver to save Egypt from the worst aspects of Roman domination. After Julius Caesar was murdered, Cleopatra, still in her early twenties, met Mark Antony, and a love affair, strongly motivated by politics began. Her effect on Mark Antony was profound. This noble Roman turned traitor to his own people when he attempted to save the country of this fascinating Black Queen.
After Antony´s death, the victor, Octavius, assumed full control of Egypt. Cleopatra, now without a protector or champion, committed suicide. After Cleopatra´s death, Egypt became a Roman colony and the harsher aspects of Roman rule settled over Egypt and the Middle East.
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Black/White Alliances; by John Henrik Clarke
We have been hospitable to strangers—nearly always to the wrong strangers! Nearly all of our relationships with non-African people began with a dinner invitation. More than anyone else in the world we repeatedly invited our future conquerors to dinne...
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Akhenaton (1375-1358 B.C.)
1300 years before Christ, he preached and lived a gospel of perfect love, brotherhood, and truth. 2000 years before Mohammed, he taught the doctrine of the "One God." 3000 years before Darwin, he sensed the unity that runs through all living things....
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The Passing of Patrice Lumumba; by John Henrik Clarke (1961)
Lumumba was and is still being extolled this "best son of Africa," this "Lincoln of the Congo," this "Black Messiah," whose struggle was made noble by his unswerving demand for centralism against all forms of Balkanization and rendered heroic by his...
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L´homme qui partagea le dernier repas de Moumié.
"Quand les jeunes Africains créaient l`histoire" L`ouvrage de Jean Martin Tchaptchet est aussi une remarquable galerie de portraits de Camerounais de sa génération, saisis tels qu`ils ont été dans leur jeunesse....
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Les visages ont vieillis par Simon Njami, Cameroun
Quelque chose, quelque part, demeure. Et même si plus personne, jamais, ne courra vers moi, sous le soleil, les bras emplis de fleurs, même si ne persiste plus que le souvenir du souvenir, il reste une trace, un sillon. Cette force de dire non, malgr...
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