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Esteban de Dorantes: The African...

Esteban de Dorantes: The African slave who...

Tiwanaku, Bolivia: The mysterious collapse...

Tiwanaku, Bolivia: The mysterious collapse of a...

Esteban de Dorantes: The African slave who defied all odds to become a diplomat and linguist, by Gift Luckson

Esteban de Dorantes: The African slave who defied all odds to become a diplomat and linguist, by Gift Luckson The story of Esteban de Dorantes (also known as Estevanico, Mustafa Azemmouri, or Esteban the Moor) is one of the most incredible, cinematic, and overlooked survival stories in human history. Enslavement ​Enslaved as a young man, he ended up becoming the first African to cross the North American continent, a brilliant multilingual diplomat, a revered healer, and an explorer whose final journey inspired the European search for the legendary Seven Cities of Gold. ​From...
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Esteban de Dorantes:...

Esteban de Dorantes: The African slave who defied all odds to become a diplomat and linguist, by Gift Luckson The story of Esteban de Dorantes...
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Tiwanaku, Bolivia: The...

Tiwanaku, Bolivia: The mysterious collapse of a once-great city of civilisation, by Gift Luckson High in the desolate, windswept Altiplano of western Bolivia—over 12,500 feet...
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William Ansah Sessarakoo:...

William Ansah Sessarakoo: The story of the African Prince wrongfully sold into slavery, by Gift Luckson William Ansah Sessarakoo (1735 – 1770) was a Fante...
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Belinda Sutton: The...

Belinda Sutton: The remarkable Ghanaian slave who won the first reparation petition, by Gift Luckson Belinda Sutton (born 1713 in Africa), also known as Belinda...
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Opinion

Indiscriminate Dumping of...

Indiscriminate Dumping of Dirt in Abuja: A growing health and economic threat, by Gift Luckson The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), especially Abuja, has witnessed a...
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The legacy of...

The legacy of Eliza Moore, one of America's last survivors of slavery, by Gift Luckson Eliza Moore (June 27, 1843 – January 21, 1948) was...
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Roots

Outlasting Slavery: How...

Outlasting Slavery: How George Freeman Bragg Jr. became a force for racial justice, by Gift Luckson George Freeman Bragg Jr. (1863–1940) was a pioneering African...
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Roots

Harriet Jacobs: A...

Harriet Jacobs: A voice of courage against slavery, by Gift Luckson Harriet Jacobs (1813 or 1815 – March 7, 1897) was an African-American abolitionist and...
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Nigerian governors’ defections...

Nigerian governors’ defections and the growing fear of a one-party system, by Gift Luckson Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State has announced his resignation from...
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