Kingdom of kush

Pharaonic Egypt is arguably the most famous ancient civilization on the African continent. This does not mean, however, that it was the only ancient civilization that sprang from African soil. Egypt’s southern neighbors, the Nubians (Egyptian for ‘gold’, due to the abundance of this precious metal in their lands), have had an uneasy relationship with the Egyptians over the millennia.

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival to Egypt.

Kemsit was an ancient Egyptian queen consort and wife of Pharaoh Mentuhotep II of the 11th dynasty.

In his Book, Imhotep The African: Architect Of The Cosmos, Robert Buaval contends that the Imhotep the Black African from the Ancient Egyptian Nile Valley Civilization of Kemet should be known and recognised as the First Architect and world Genius. Imhotep the African is also known as the first

As crazy as it sounds, I did not know black people traveled before I went to college. Growing up poor, the only traveling the black people I knew did was down south to visit Grandma. That’s it. Along with learning that black people, including myself, loved to travel, I learned to appreciate my African heritage and the diaspora - Thanks Howard! So this post is dedicated to 20 international destinations that all black people that love to travel should put on their list (before Europe and…

Map of the Kushite empire

King Nastasen Ankhkhare was a Napatan Period ruler of the Kingdom of Kush (Sudan) c. 335 B.C. - 315/310 B.C. His mother was Queen Pelkha and his father may have been King Harsiotef. Married to Queen Sekhmakh, and succeeded by King Aryamani. Nastasen is noted for defeating an Upper Egyptian invasion of Kush by Khabbash "taking many fine boats" and putting down many rebellions, thereby consolidating Harsiotef's earlier conquests. Most of what we know about Nastasen comes from the rather…

Ferdinand Magellan was the first to circumnavigate the globe and discovered the Pacific Ocean (1519). He discovered the Straight of Magellan, which crosses over South America, leading from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. On his voyage he stopped in the Philippines and converted some natives to Christianity. He also helped them fight against a neighboring island with their superior weapons (EM).