African Exploration Of Europeans African Exploration African Exploration African Exploration: Between roughly 1770 and 1880, Africa was explored, allowing for precise maps and publishable knowledge on the continent. Although Portuguese navigators had surveyed the beaches by 1500, the…

Pan Africanism Pan Africanism Pan Africanism: Kwame Nkrumah, who was prime minister of Ghana when that country got its independence on March 6, 1957, said that the Gold Coast’s independence didn’t mean anything unless it was linked to…

The Anti-Slavery Movement Anti-Slavery Movement Evangelical Christianity in Britain and Enlightenment ideas on the continent served as inspiration for anti-slavery movements in Western Europe. John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, wrote Thoughts on Slavery in 1744, one…

The Life Of Maritcha Lyons On May 23, 1848, African-American educator and civil rights activist Maritcha Remond Lyons was born to Albro Lyons Sr. and Mary Joseph Lyon in New York City, New York. In the free black…

Life Of Mary Kenner Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner, or Mary Kenner, was an African-American woman who lived from 1912 until 2006, was an inventor. Mary Beatrice Davidson’s full name was In addition to being the creator of a…