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Chronology of African History – 20th Century (1902 – 1950)
A CHRONOLOGY OF AFRICAN HISTORY
It is the purpose of this article to provide the general reader with a comprehensive picture of world’s greatest civilization originating in Africa, a continent leading modern scholars today refer to it as the ‘the cradle of civilization’. This chronology seeks to address sophisticated and intelligent readers who had never previously read anything serious about Africa, from the earliest times to the most recent. Most black people have lost their confidence, their true identity, because their history has been neglected, falsified and sometimes concealed. Diana Crawford Carson has been instrumental in the compilation of the chronology as she spent many hours synchronizing facts from many sources and verifying the language usage. Note: the century headings generally refer to the first date mentioned. Example: an entry covering the 14th to the 18th century will be found under ’14th Century, 1300s’. The numbers in the left hand column are arbitrary, to help those using the indexes. All information has been resourced; resources are listed after the main text, just before the index.
The 20th century, 1900s, (1902-1950)
Black Education – Women in Black History, Part 2
In pursuit of your black education, when studying women in black history, something we should consider is who were the African queens and what did they do? One thing that we can be glad of is that, even with all of the lost knowledge, there are still several volumes that can be published to answer those questions so I encourage you to do more research and contribute your version of the stories. In this light, I want to briefly discuss with you two queens – Queen Candace and Queen Nzinga.
When I was a child, I was told in school that in 332 B.C., Alexander the Great, after defeating Egypt, cried because he had no more nations left to conquer. If the man actually did cry, it was not for that reason; it was because of Queen Candace according to Chancellor Williams in his The Destruction of Black Civilization. Alexander wanted to continue south and invade Ethiopia, but Queen Candace, at the head of her own army, all of whom were on the backs of mammoth-sized elephants, waited for Alexander at her border. Alexander did not even attempt to fight her.
Adding more to your black education, observe that nearly 2,000 years later, in 1623, Queen Nzinga, like Queen Candace, stood at the head of her own army; however, she was not fighting a Greek invasion. Her empire, which is now Angola, was being invaded by the Portuguese who were hunting for slaves. Her brother, who had inherited the throne, cooperated with the Portuguese. Princess Nzinga opposed her brother. Upon his death, the princess became Queen. She promptly gave the Portuguese an ultimatum to evacuate her capital city or risk war.
Black Education – Women in Black History, Part 1
Black education most definitely needs more focus in its consideration of black women. Scientists like Louis B. Leakey teach that all races can be traced back to African blood. This means that black women are the mothers of the human race – period. As such, we blacks are the most ancient people on earth and, therefore, our history is the oldest. Our history is not simply thousands of years old: it is millions.
Western education would have you believe that those millions of years were spent in ignorance. This is one reason why black people need to study and interpret their own history for themselves because having such an immense history means that black women (the subject of our discussion) have had millions of years of great achievements.
I will not bore you with millions of years of history. I could not if I wanted to. Too much time has passed and, more to the point, too many invasions have occurred, resulting in burnings of massive libraries, the destruction of an immeasurable amount of records, and grossly distorted interpretations. We can be glad, however, that our ancestors recorded a great deal of their history in stone all over the world.
