Legends Of Africa
Africa has a wealth of history which is largely unrecorded. Myths, fables and legends abound.
Read more about Legends Of Africa: Shango of The Oyo Empire, Shaka The Zulu, Askia Mohammed I (Askia The Great) of Timbuktu, Ancient Egypt, Ashanti Kingdom, Bambara Empire, Mali Empire, Dahomey Kingdom, The Ife Kingdom, Ile Ife, The Benin Kingdom, Benin City, Queen Amina of Zaria, Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome Kuti, Hamilton Naki, Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Makeda, The Queen of Sheba (960 B.C.), Usman Dan Fodio, Queen Nzingha of Ndongo (1582–1663) - Angola
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“Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
“a child’s
Forgotten mornings when he walked with his mother
Through the parables
Of sunlight
And the legends of the green chapels
And the twice-told fields of infancy”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“Are you there, Africa with the bulging chest and oblong thigh? Sulking Africa, wrought of iron, in the fire, Africa of the millions of royal slaves, deported Africa, drifting continent, are you there? Slowly you vanish, you withdraw into the past, into the tales of castaways, colonial museums, the works of scholars.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)