PRESENTATIONS/LECTURES

Professor James Small, CEO of Sanaa Lodge Enterprise Ghana Limited and Educator, Lecturer, Priest in Yoruba Religion.   This video clip was recorded on September 8, 2016 during the Liberation Film Series, “United We Stand - Commemorating the 1967 Detroit Rebellion: Hidden Colors 4: The Religion of White Supremacy” Event, featuring Michael Imhotep (Founder, The African History Network) and Keynote Speaker Professor James Small (CEO, Sanaa Lodge Enterprise Ghana Limited LTD ), at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 East Warren, Detroit, MI. 

John Henrik Clarke, was an African-American historian, professor, and a pioneer in the creation of Pan-African and Africana studies, and professional institutions in academia starting in the late 1960s.

"150 Years Later: Abolition in the 21st Century" with Angela Y. Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies (UCLA-Santa Cruz)

About Angela Y. Davis:  

Through activism and scholarship over many decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in movements for social justice around the world.  Her work as an educator -- both at the university level and in the larger public sphere -- has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender justice. Having helped to popularize the notion of a "prison industrial complex," she now urges her audiences to think seriously about the future possibility of a world without prisons and to help forge a 21st century abolitionist movement.  This lecture was presented in collaboration with the McMaster Seminar on Higher Education (http://highered.mcmaster.ca) with the generous support of McMaster University's Office of the President, the Office of the Vice President (Research & International Affairs), the McMaster Centre for Scholarship in the Public Interest, Mac10 Young Alumni network, the Public Intellectuals Project, OPIRG McMaster, Bryan Prince Bookseller and the Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion. Research and related activities for this event were supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

On Jan. 26, 2021, President Joe Biden signed four executive orders designed to address racial equity in the United States. With one particular action Biden hopes to right the historical wrongs Black folks have faced when it comes to housing and home ownership in this country.  Per a White House statement, “He will direct the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to take steps necessary to redress racially discriminatory federal housing policies that have contributed to wealth inequality for generations.”  And that’s why the story of what housing and other living conditions look like for many Black Americans is pretty bleak. It’s by design.  READ MORE: https://www.theroot.com/racial-segreg...

The background understanding of the history of Sudan – Christopher Tounsel #ObehiPodcast. Christopher Tounsel, is a historian of modern Sudan, with a special focus on race and religion as political technologies. In this episode, we talk about his first book, “Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan”.

A documentary on the Nubian Archers - Longbowmen of Africa. Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/invicta. Start your free trial TODAY so you can watch "The Story of Egypy" about the history of the Nile civilizations, and the rest of MagellanTV’s documentary collection: https://www.magellantv.com/series/the...  In this Units of History documentary we explore the story of the Nubian Archers - Longbowmen of Africa. The episode begins with an introduction to the lands of the Nile, its geography, and the entwined development of both Egypt and Nubia. In this context it appears that the Nubian Archers existed from the very start as skilled hunters in southern civilization. Over time they would develop such a reputation that the ancient Egyptians would call the area of ancient Nubia, Tah-Seti, the Land of the Bow.  Both the Egyptian Army and the Nubian Army would clash for centuries along the Nile. Such was the threat from Nubia that the Pharaohs began to fortify the region of the first cataract with a series of Egyptian Fortifications like the Buhen Fortress. Yet even still the Nubian Archers could not be stopped and their armies are said to have regularly managed to storm these bastions. The Egyptians recognized the military prowess of the Nubian Archers and quickly hired them as mercenaries in their own armies. This was a trend that would continue with later Empires that interacted with the Lands of Nubia.  We talk specifically about what the equipment of these Nubian archers, how they were trained, how they were organized, and how they fought in battle. Finally the documentary concludes with an overview of their service history that would span hundreds of years through the Kingdom of Kerma, the Kingdom of Napata, and the Kingdom of Meroe. Stay tuned for more Units of History episodes and let us know what units you would like to see covered next!  I'm excited to also cover more of the history of Nubia and African history in general! For now you can check out our previous episodes on Ancient Egypt and the Roman Invasion of Nubia.  

Sources and Suggested Reading: “The Kingdom of Kush: Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization” by László Török “Aksum and Nubia: Warfare, Commerce, and Political Fictions in Ancient Northeast Africa” by George Hatke “Ancient Nubia” by Shinnie “Kerma Kushites." by Hansberry. W., & Johnson, E. “The Histories” by Herodotus “Ancient Egyptian Bows and Arrows and their Relevance for African Prehistory” by J. D. Clark  “Wrestling in Ancient Nubia” by Scott T. Carroll   

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Narration = Guy Michaels 

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The history of Nigeria explained in 6 minutes  (3,000 Years of Nigerian history) Epimetheus on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Epimetheus1776 

This edition of Mr. Zoller's Social Studies Podcasts provides an introduction to African geography.