For a while, these posters were everywhere. Starting in 1975, Anheuser-Busch’s “Great Kings of Africa” campaign introduced historical African leaders such as Afonso and Askia to tens of ...

At 89, he is MAMGA’s oldest living member. He’s been a member for 65 years, 40 of those as a marshal. Growing up in Mobile, he admired the founding members and what they were doing in his ...

African Queens: Njinga, a new four-episode documentary from Netflix, executive producer Jada Pinkett-Smith, and documentary production company Nutopia, explores the life and reign of Queen Njinga ...

I n 1624, the kingdom of Ndongo in West Central Africa (modern-day Angola) got a new queen: Njinga. Her life as the first female ruler (or woman king) of the region forms the story of African ...

Cleopatra was descended from a line of Macedonian Greek kings who ruled Egypt from 323 B.C. to 30 B.C., when it was annexed by Rome, and many scholars contend that she likely had little, if any ...