Saturday 2 March 2013

BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : AFRICAN SLAVE KINGS AND QUEENS WHO SOLD SLAVES TO EUROPEANS :

Akhenaton  ( 1375  to  1358 ) -  The Creator of Monotheism :

Akhenaton was the first ruler in recorded history to believe in the concept of one God. He thought this concept to all his citizens. He built a city in the desert that dedicated to religion, art ruler to resistaalso known as the first nd music.

Affonso 1  -  king of the Kongo  (1506 - 1540 )

Affonso 1 was a visionary, a man who saw his country not as a group of separate cultures, but as a unified nation fully equipped with advance knowledge and technology. he was also known as the first ruler to resist the most decpicable act ever known to man , "The Slave Trade".

Askia Toure  - King Of Songhai  ( 1493 - 1529 )

Askia Toure united the entire central region of the Western Sudan  and established governmental machine that is still revered today for its detail efficiency. He divided his country into provinces. each with a t and professional administrator and ruled each family and uniformly though a stuff of distinguished legal expert and judges.


Behanzin Hossu Bowelle - The King Shark -  ( 1841 - 1906 )


































Behanzin was the most powerful ruler in West Africa during the end of the 19th century. He strongly resisted European intervention into his country. This was done with a powerful physically fit army, which included a division of five thousand female warriors. He was always referred to as the King Shark  a Dahomey surname.


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