By: Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare ORIGINS Idris Ali was born in Aswan in Upper Egypt in 1940 (he was of Nubian ancestry). He received his higher education from Al-Azhar University, in Cairo, Egypt. WORD WARRIOR: ACTIVISM THROUGH WRITING In 1969, when he was almost 30, he published his first short-story. He would go on to publish […]
BLACK ✊🏿🌍🇪🇬HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: IDRIS ALI NUBIAN-EGYPTIAN AUTHOR & ACTIVIST
Warrior Queen 👸🏿Yaa Asantawaa By: Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare ORIGINS Yaa Asantewaa was born in 1840 in Besease (a town in central Ghana), she was the daughter of a man named Kwaku Ampoma and a woman named Ata Po. Her brother was a man named Afrane Panin, he would become a chief of the people in […]
HISTORY OF AFRICAN WARRIOR QUEEN YAA ASANTEWAA OF THE ASANTE EMPIRE!🇬🇭
By:Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare EARLY LIFE Shaka KaSenzangakhona, (better-known-as Shaka Zulu), was born in July of 1787 in Mthethwa Paramountcy (sometimes called the Mthethwa Empire). He was the son of Senzangakhona Kajama (who was a chief of the Zulu clan). Because he was viewed by some as an illegitimate son to Sebzangakhona Kajama (because his parents […]
BLACK HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: WARRIOR KING SHAKA kASENZANGAKHONA (SHAKA ZULU) ♥️💛💚
BY:Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare EARLY LIFE Pharaoh Narmer (believed by many experts of Egyptology to be the same pharaoh known as Menes). He was a Pharaoh in the early dynastic period of Egypt. He inherited the ancient African crown from protodynastic pharaoh Ka (also known as Sekhen). UNIFER He is believed by Egyptologists to of been […]
BLACK HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: PHARAOH NARMER/MENES-FOUNDER OF YHE FIRST DYNASTY OF EGYPT 🇪🇬!❤️💛💚
By: Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare EARLY LIFE Cathay Williams was ironically born in Independence, Missouri, sometime around September 1844. She was the daughter of a Black freedman and an enslaved Black woman, therefore making her a slave. Williams worked as a house slave on the Johnson plantation, which was located on the edges of Jefferson City, […]
BLACK HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: CATHAY WILLIAMS-THE BLACK AMERICAN JOAN OF ARC ❤💛💚
by:Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare Early Life Yanga also known as Nyanga is believed to have been born in the year of 1545, on the 14th of May.Some researchers say he came from the Bran people of the coastal central African nation of Gabon, and was a member of its royal family. He was eventually captured and […]
BLACK HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: GASPAR YANGA❤🖤💚
By: Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-AsareEarly LifePhillis Wheatley is believed to of been born in 1753, in West Africa, most likely in Senegal or Gambia. At around the age of 7 or 8, some historians say she was likely sold by a local African chief to a slave trader, who brought her to the British colony of […]
Black History Spotlight: Phillis Wheatly-The First Black American To Publish A Book Of Poetry
By: Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare Origins Yasuke is believed by some scholars to of come from the Yao people of modern-day Mozambique. Therefore some believe his name Yasuke derived from “Yao-Suke”, suke being a Japanese suffix added to a male name, so Yasuke most likely meant a man of Yao origin. There are varying accounts saying […]
BLACK HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: THE AFRICAN SAMURAI-YASUKE
By:Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare Young King Osei Tutu I was born in what is modern-day Ghana in 1660. When Osei Tutu I inherited the title of Kumasihene (king of Kumasi). Tutu would use this new influence to get the other Akan city-states to unite against the regional African hegemonic power,who were also an Akan people known […]
BLACK HISTORY SPOTLIGHT:KING OSEI TUTU I: THE FATHER OF THE ASANTE EMPIRE
Leon Kwasi "DaPoet" Kuntuo-Asare 