author Debra Dickerson has argued that the term " black " should refer strictly to the descendents of Africans brought to America as slaves, and not the sons and daughters of black immigrants who lack that ancestry.

It can be said that the SANNC had its origins in a pronouncement by Pixley ka Isaka Seme who said in 1911 Forget all the past differences among Africans and unite in one national organisation.

The great majority of Ecuadorans trace their origins to one or more of three geographical sources of Human migrations: the pre-Hispanic indigenous Amerindians who settled the region over 15, 000 years ago, the Europeans ( principally Spaniards ) who arrived over 5 centuries ago, and ultimately the black sub-Saharan Africans whom they imported as slave labour during the same period.

The tale Marlow shares exposes the dark side of European colonization and the brutally cruel treatment of the native Africans when at the hands of the company men who partake in such European imperialistic endeavours.

Most of the troops who fought against Dahomey were native Africans.

He successfully argued that the Africans, who had seized control of a Spanish ship on which they were being transported illegally as slaves, should not be extradited or deported to Cuba ( a Spanish colony where slavery was legal ) but should be considered free.

Among southern Africans, who were largely not a part of the Atlantic slave trade, it represented the wife's commitment or willingness to clean the courtyard of the new home she had joined.

Rushton argues that East Asians and their descendants average a larger brain size, greater intelligence, more sexual restraint, slower rates of maturation, and greater law abidingness and social organization than do Europeans and their descendants, who average higher scores on these dimensions than Africans and their descendants.

Rodger, who had taken the first photographs of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, refused to help Riefenstahl meet Africans, citing their respective backgrounds.

Muslims had actually lived in the region for quite some time ; the famous Arab historian and geographer, Al-Masudi, reported Muslims amongst Africans in the land of Sofa in 947 ( modern day Mozambique, itself a derivative of the name of the Arab Shiekh who ruled the area at the time when the Portuguese arrived, Musa bin Ba ' ik ).

* 1841 – The U. S. Supreme Court rules that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.

Slavery became a caste of people who were foreign to the English ( Native Americans, Africans and their descendants ) and non-Christians.

The Panama route was also vulnerable to attack from pirates ( mostly Dutch and English ) and from ' new world ' Africans called cimarrons who had freed themselves from enslavement and lived in communes or palenques around the Camino Real in Panama's Interior, and on some of the islands off Panama's Pacific coast.

Slavery in Mauritania was finally criminalized in August 2007 It was already abolished in 1980 though it was still affecting the descendants of black Africans abducted into slavery before generations, who live now in Mauritania as " black Moors " or haratin and who partially still serve the " white Moors ", or bidhan ( the name means literally white-skinned people ), as slaves.

The decline of these kingdoms can be explained by internal rivalries, then by the arrival of Europeans, who organized the mass exodus of young Africans to the New World.

While those who were born in these towns could technically enjoy all the rights of native French citizens, substantial legal and social barriers prevented the full exercise of these rights, especially by those seen by authorities as ' full blooded ' Africans.

Most of the African population of these towns were termed originaires: those Africans born into the commune, but who retained recourse to African and / or Islamic law ( the so called " personal status ").

Those few Africans from the four communes who were able to pursue higher education and were willing to renounce their legal protections could ' rise ' to be termed Évolué (' Evolved ') and were nominally granted full French citizenship, including the vote.

Most Seychellois are descendants of early French settlers and East Africans who arrived in the 19th century.

If the Africans were not much interested in acquiring slaves, the Portuguese — as well as the Dutch, French, and English who arrived later — certainly were.

A prominent critic of slavery in the Spanish New World colonies was Bartolomé de las Casas, who opposed the enslavement of Native Americans, and later also of Africans in America.

Between 1808 and 1860, the British West Africa Squadron seized approximately 1, 600 slave ships and freed 150, 000 Africans who were aboard.

Elizabeth Baumfree, also known as Mau-Mau Bet to children who knew her, was the daughter of enslaved Africans from the Coast of Guinea.

The Carrier Corps was formed and ultimately mobilised over 400, 000 Africans, contributing to their long-term politicisation.

An indigenous elite trained in French administrative practice formed an intermediary group between the French and the Africans.

The Carrier Corps was formed and ultimately mobilised over 400, 000 Africans, contributing to their long-term politicisation.

Ever since the British victory in the war, it was an inevitability, but it remained up to the South Africans to decide what sort of country would be formed, and how it would be formed.

Arabs formed the population base ( religious, industrial, and commercial functions ) and the general population included the original inhabitants of the city, immigrants from different parts of Syria, North Africans who accompanied Qalawun's army during the liberation of Tripoli, eastern Christians, some Western families, and a minority of Jews.

A Nigerian brigade together with two East African brigades ( the KAR brigades ) and some South Africans, formed the 11th African Division.

According to historian John K. Thornton " Central Africans have probably never agreed among themselves as to what their cosmology is " because of the presence of " continuous revelation " by which theological ideas were formed by a " constant stream of revelations that was not under the control of a priesthood who enforced orthodoxy, but instead was interpreted individually within a community of belief.

Settlements are formed by enslaved Africans who have successfully run away after many attempts, and after many years of a life of slavery.

Not all enslaved Africans who ran away formed settlements in Brazil.

Seeking to bring Africans into the established political processes, and hoping they would shun the recently formed African National Congress ( ANC ) parties, Welensky hit out at what he saw as the poor Colonial Office practice of making the situation " of two opposed policies, black rule and white rule.

The Nigerian brigade, together with two East African brigades ( the KAR brigades ) and some South Africans, formed 11th African Division.

With the abolition of slavery in 1888 and an attempt of Brazil's government to " bleach " its ethnic composition which was greatly formed by descendants of enslaved Africans, the government began attracting Europeans such as Italians, Spanish, and Germans, in Western Europe, and in the East Poles, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, and Russians by offering them lands.

The 1st ( West Africa ) Infantry Brigade, together with two East African brigades ( KAR brigades ) and some South Africans, formed 11th African Division.

Later, the APSP formed the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement to work under the guiding principle that the only way for Africans to achieve liberation and self-determination is to struggle for an all-African socialist government under the leadership of African workers and poor peasants.

Frazier's position formed one half of the debate with Melville J. Herskovits on the nature of cultural contact in the Western Hemisphere, specifically with reference to Africans, Europeans, and their descendents.

The creole was formed when enslaved Africans, unable to communicate with each other and their masters due to being taken from different regions of West Africa with different languages, created an English-based pidgin with West African-derived words and grammatical structure.

In addition to the national team, a representative team of South Africans living in the United Kingdom was formed in 2004 called the Wild Dogs.

In 1948, Muliro had joined the Kenya African Union ( KAU ), a body formed to champion the interests of Africans in colonial Kenya.