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)
“Farm boys wild to couple
With anything with soft-wooded trees
With mounds of earthmounds
Of pine straw will keep themselves off
Animals by legends of their own:”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)
“Day by day we hear the cry of AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS. This cry has become a positive, determined one. It is a cry that is raised simultaneously the world over because of the universal oppression that affects the Negro.”
—Marcus Garvey (1887–1940)