Kenyans on sometime ago took to social media to celebrate a rare case of snow falling in the East African country.
Photos and videos shared on social media by Kenyans to show whitish substance on the streets of the town of Nyahururu located in the country’s Laikipia County.
The Kenyan Meteorological Agency, however, clarified and explained that the incident was a case of rare hail storm and not snow. ‘‘For it to snow temperatures are usually below 0°C,” they explained.
The event in Nyahururu is a hail storm. Such storms occurs when there is abrupt convection and rain clouds form too fast.
— Kenya Met Department 🇰🇪 (@MeteoKenya) July 4, 2017
Chelsea’s French-born Senegalese goalkeeper Edouard Mendy poses at the Diderot primary school while giving his financial support to PowerZ, in Drancy on June 11, 2022.
A group of 50 students from Drancy, in the northern Parisian suburbs, were given the opportunity to meet international footballer Edouard Mendy.
The Chelsea goalkeeper and member of the Senegalese national team is involved in a project called PowerZ, which aims to teach the next generation through a free online video game.
“I think we’re in a generation where kids are very connected, but often they’re poorly connected because there are a lot of cartoons, games that don’t necessarily teach them anything, so this video game is a very good mix between entertainment and learning and it enriches our kids and it’s something that we have to harness.”, explains Edouard Mendy, Chelsea and Senegal goalkeeper.
The admired player who helped Senegal lift its first African Cup of Nations this year also financially invested in the development of PowerZ.
The Father of two young boys aged four and six also says he fell in love with its concept because it is free, or rather “free-to-pay“ as those who install it are free to pay what they want or can.
“I am very involved in this project: for me, children are the future, education is the foundation, we can link the two.”, says Mendy.
PowerZ was designed by a team of 50 people including video game and pedagogy specialists. Its founder and CEO is Emmanuel Freund who praises the player’s values. “I met Edouard and I realized several things: first of all we have exactly the same values, this desire to see education accessible to all, to allow everyone to educate themselves, rise in society, all of this was very important for him. And then the second thing which we see here at this event but that I saw already from the start, when we talk to the children, the fact that he is a model.”.
Its designers have raised “10 million euros for the development of the game internationally”. A motivation shared by the Senegalese goalkeeper who says he wishes to see PowerZ on a “world-scale”.
In 332 BC, Alexander the Great came in Egypt. Alexander marched to Egypt after defeating the Persian ruler Darius for control of Syria and the Levant.
The Early Life Of Alexander The Great
Alexander III of Macedon, also known as Alexander the Great, was the ruler of Macedon, a great ancient Greek kingdom.
In 356 BC, he was born in Pella. He spent the majority of his life in military interventions across Asia and Northeast Africa, and at the age of thirty, he managed to build one of the most powerful empires in ancient history, stretching from Greece to northwest India. He is regarded as one of history’s most successful military commanders.
Alexander’s Legacy includes the cultural diffusion which his conquests engendered. He established twenty cities that carry his name, most popular is Alexandria in Egypt. His legendary as a classical hero in the achilles and he always featured importantly in the history of both Greek and non-Greek cultures. He became an icon for the military leaders to compare with his performance.
Nowadays, the military academies all over the world still teach his tactics in wars thus he ranked among the most influential people in history.
He arrived in Egypt in 332 BC. After defeating the Persian emperor Darius for control of Syria and the Levant, Alexander marched to Egypt. At the time, Egypt was a satrapy in the Persian Empire, held loosely under Persian control since the decline of the Ancient Egyptian Empire at the end of the 7th century BC.
Alexander and his army of Greeks were regarded as liberators and to cement the Oracle of Amun at Siwa Oasis pronounced him the new ‘master of the universe’ and a descendent of the Egyptian god Amun.
Alexander did not stay in Egypt long. By 331 BC he was on his way west to complete his conquest of the Persian Empire, but the impact of his conquest in Egypt was significant. Alexander respected Egyptian culture and religion, but he installed a Greek government to control his administration of Egypt.
Greek influence in Egypt was reinforced by the settlement of Greek veterans throughout Egypt, where they became a privileged aristocracy that gradually assimilated with the Egyptians. Alexander also founded a new Greek capital, Alexandria, located on the Mediterranean at the mouth of the Nile.
Although Alexander would never return to Egypt, dying in Babylon in 323 BC, the Greek rule that he established proved more enduring. In the crisis after Alexander’s death, Ptolomy, one of his generals, claimed Egypt as his kingdom and established hereditary rule. The Ptolomaic Dynasty would last until the Romans conquered Egypt in 32 BC.
Alexandria emerged as a great city in the Mediterranean and a center of Hellenism, spreading Greek learning and culture. It was the site of the legendary Ancient Library of Alexandria and the Pharos Lighthouse, which was built on the site where Qaitbey Citadel stands today.
Alexander the Great: Military History
Alexander the great has a legendary record of undefeated wars , first against the achaemenid Persian under the command of Darius III then, against local chieftains and arlords as far east as punjab, India, this Alexander regarded one of the most successful military commanders in history. Despite his military victories, he failed to provide an alternative to Achaemenid empire. After his death his huge territories he conquered threw them into civil war.
Alexander takeover the kingship of Macedonia following the death of his father Philip II, who unified most of the city states of mainland Greece under Macedonian called Hellenic League. After uniting city-states of Macedonia after his father death, Alexander set out east against the Achaemenid Persian Empire under the “king of kings” Darius II, who he defeated and overthrew. His conquests include Anatolia, Syria, Gaza, Egypt, Persia and he extended the borders of his empire to Punjab, India.
As a brilliant military commander, Alexander the great had made before his death for military expansions into the arabian peninsula, However, Alexander’s diadochi abandoned these plans after his death. then, they started to fight with each other, dividing up the empire between themselves and continue 40 years of wars.
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There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
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The Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt is the foundation upon which all of Egypt’s long and storied history has been built.
All of Egypt’s lengthy and colorful history is built on the foundation of the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt.
People living in the Nile Valley first began to produce the art and architecture that we currently consider to be among the most remarkable ancient feats in history during this time period, which lasted from 2686 to 2181 BC.
Before the formation of the old empire, Egypt was divided into several regional chiefdoms, each with its own gods, kings, and governance.
The “Old Kingdom” is a timeline during the ancient Egypt. It ruled ancient egypt from 2575 BC to 2150 BC which consists of 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 Dynasties with 25 Pharaohs.The fourth and fifth dynasty were the main old kingdom dynasties while some archaeologists consider the third dynasty as a critical period.
over 400 years, Egypt had a strong central government and economy. The most famous about Ancient Egypt Old Kingdom is the built of the pyramids thus, it called the “age of the pyramids” or “age of the pyramid builders”.
What time period considered old kingdom in ancient Egypt ?
The old kingdom time period in ancient Egypt is when the great pyramids and the great sphinx were built, pyramids construction took place in the early period in the old kingdom. This period of time was highlighted with the progress of management, architecture, painting, sculpture, transportation, food distribution, astronomy and sanitation.
Primary Information about Ancient Egypt Old Kingdom
Capital: Memphis Religion: Ancient Egyptian religion Population: one million and half Government: Divine absolute monarchy Common languages: Ancient Egyptian
What is the Old Kingdom of Egypt known for?
It was known for the construction of the great pyramid and the sphinx under the rule of Pharaoh Khufu, it also known as the “age of the Pyramid” or “Age of the Pyramids builders”. The ancient Egypt old kingdom took greatest achievements happens during the 4th, 5th and 6th dynasties. Forward, the central government started to collapse.
There is evidence of human settlement in the Nile Valley dating back to around 7000 BC and Ancient Egypt was organized into kingdoms before 2686 BC, but archeologists have defined the Old Kingdom as the first of three peaks of stability that Ancient Egyptian civilization experienced.
Art and monumental building in the ancient world are evidence of economic and organizational success. They suggest that people had surplus time and resources to devote to activities other than survival and food production. During the Old Kingdom, the king’s of Egypt were able to feed their subjects and organize huge work forces in order to construct some of the largest structure ever built.
Almost all of the pyramids that we see today in Egypt were built during the Old Kingdom. Specifically, the 4th dynasty (2613–2494 BC) of the Old Kingdom was the ‘golden age’ of pyramid building. The Giza Pyramids and other large pyramids and Sakkara and Dahshur were all built during the the largest and best constructed pyramids were all built during this surprisingly short moment in Egypt’s long history.
The end of the Old Kingdom came about as the economy of Egypt and the power of the Egyptian kings declined and the Nile Valley fell into a period of disarray known as the First Intermediate Period (2181–2055 BC)
Almost all of the pyramids that we see today in Egypt were built during the Old Kingdom. Specifically, the 4th dynasty (2613–2494 BC) of the Old Kingdom was the ‘golden age’ of pyramid building. The Giza Pyramids and other large pyramids and Sakkara and Dahshur were all built during the the largest and best constructed pyramids were all built during this surprisingly short moment in Egypt’s long history.
The end of the Old Kingdom came about as the economy of Egypt and the power of the Egyptian kings declined and the Nile Valley fell into a period of disarray known as the First Intermediate Period (2181–2055 BC)
In 1720 CE, during the peak era of the European trans-atlantic slave trade, Agaja, king of Dahomey raided and sacked all slave trading forts that were set up on the coastal areas of his kingdom by Europeans.
King Agaja burnt everything down and blocked off supply routes to the hinterlands. Slavery was in conflict with Dahomey’s development.
Europeans were bitter. They tried to sponsor Africans they had made slave dealers, against King Agaja. “They failed to unseat him or to crush the Dahomey kingdom. But in turn, king Agaja failed to persuade the Europeans to introduce a new line of trade or other economic activities such as local plantations agriculture.
Being eager to acquire firearms, Agaja agreed to resume the slave trade in 1730 CE.” – (Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa).
During the time of King Wegbaja in the 17th century CE, European often preferred to obtain a shipload of captured and enslaved men and women from one spot. Dahomey was in constant conflict with the Oyo kingdom of the Yoruba people, which was in present-day Western Nigeria.
And this meant that there was always a teeming number of Africans captured on both sides and given to Europeans in exchange for firearms and junks from Europe (This is the reason why millions of Yoruba speaking people are found today in Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago etc. In modern day Argentina, the population of these Africans were wiped out in the 19th century CE, that is why there is no black Argentine today but there are black Brazilians).
Sometimes one horse was exchanged for 15 captives from these battles. In other times, horses were gotten from the Hausa traders from the Savannah of present-day northern Nigeria, in exchange for enslaved persons, who were sold to merchants in Kano, who in turn sold these persons to the Arab traders along the trans-saharan trade routes.
Europeans often miscalculated how long it would take Dahomey to gather a shipload of captured men and women, hence the chained, enslaved persons often exhausted the food supplies on the coast.
Thousands died of starvation in this way. King Wegbaja thought out a scheme that often estranged descendants of enslaved men and women today. He began sacrificing these men and women to a deity he conceived.
He convinced his subjects that he was in that way, doing the captives a favour, instead of allowing the chained men and women to die of starvation. These were their enemies… Besides, he told his subjects that the sacrifices will ensure the perpetual power of their kingdom over rivals like the Oyo kingdom to their east(which the Dahomey people hated) and the Ashanti kingdom to the west.
This was the root of mass human sacrifice that is often attributed to the Dahomey kingdom and Voodoo. As research indicates, there were enslaved men and women(mostly those from Ketu, a town of the Oyo kingdom, near Abeokuta) who would express thankful relief when European slave ships arrived; ‘okpe oo!’ was the shouts in the Yoruba language, amidst cries as the sacrifices were halted on sighting slave ships.
But it most be noted too that, it was the Yoruba kingdom of Oyo that first made Dahomey a tributary state of their Kingdom and demanded bond servants as tribute to the Oyo crown. Dahomey broke free eventually and declared war on Oyo kingdom, which was eclipsed by the the conquest of both by the British and the French.
Obviously, Europeans saw these bloodied scenes on some occasions, giving rise to popular conclusions that Europeans saved Africans from mass sacrifices and that it was the responsibility of the African chiefs… that “Europeans merely turned up to buy the captives.”
This was captured in the book ‘Sins of our fathers’ where the author wrote that it was many Europeans who persuaded him to state clearly that the trans-atlantic slave trade was the responsibility of the African chiefs.
In response to this, Historian, Walter Rodney stated; “…as though, without the European demands, there would have been captives sitting on the beaches in their million” waiting to be chained into the slave ships.
Image: King Agaja and his guards of Female warriors that were known for their fierceness and courage. They were called the “Mino” (meaning, ‘our mothers’ in the Fon language).
Sigidi kaSenzangakhona popularly known as Shaka was a great Zulu king and conquerer. He was born around c. 1787 and lived in an area of south-east Africa between the Drakensberg and Indian Ocean.
He was the son of Senzangakohona, who ruled over a small chiefdom, the Zulu and his mother was Nandi, the daughter of a Langemi chief and was the third wife of his father.
Before the reign of Shaka, there were more than a hundred chiefdoms but were all brought together after he became king. After his father died in c. 1816, Dingiswayo, the army commander was made king but was killed in battle in c. 1818 and Shaka was made king. The reign of Shaka was a great one as he united Zulu Kingdom together but he was murdered by his two half-brothers, Diangane and Mhlangana in c. 1828.
Assassination by rivals to the throne is constant in monarchies throughout history. It’s assumed Shaka was an illegitimate child of his mother while his half-brother, Diangane was legitimate. After the death of his father, Shaka and his mother were driven away and Shaka joined the army of Mthetwa, which was led by Dingiswayo who supported Shaka to assassinate his elder brother, Sigujuana, who had then ascended the throne.
After his brother’s assassination, Shaka became chief but was a vassal of Dingiswayo and assumed full leadership of the kingdom and army when Dingiswayo was killed by Zwide in battle. His power grew as he reorganized the Zulu military system and even invented the long-bladed assegai and the bullhorn formation which helped him win many great battles.
He had a ruthless military discipline and recruited both men and youths in his armies. He even forbade any of his troops from getting married. When his mother died in October, 1827, Shaka made his grief turn him into more ruthless king.
He ordered everyone to mourn his mother and whoever he thought was not grieving enough, was executed. More than seven thousand people faced this punishment and he ordered for no crops to be planted or milk be used and this was a sure sign of an incoming famine.
Every pregnant woman as well as her husband was also executed and this made his half-brother’s turn on him. They tried more than once but always failed until many of the Zulu troops were sent North and the security around Shaka was weakened.
Together with a servant, Mbopa, the brother’s murdered Shaka, dumped his body in an empty grain pit and filled it so the exact location of Shaka’s body was never found as the location of the pit was unknown. Diangane assumed the throne and allowed the troops to marry and set up a homestead. He was king for twelve years until he was defeated by his half-brother, Mpande.
His name was Komfo Anokye and he was a twin and many believe that he was an Ewe.
According to history, his real name was Tsala and his twin brother was Tsali Togbi the Ewe legend who played a pivotal role in the establishment of the Anlos from the Nortsie. Infact Okomfo Anokye is the corrupted version of ‘Okomfo from Nortsie’.
But the Asante history has it that the very Komfo Anokye people sometimes refer to as an Ewe is an Asante and more precisely he had all his roots in the Asante kingdom.
According to the Asante history, Komfo Anokye was born in Akwapem in the Akwamu kingdom and he was also a co-founder of the Asante kingdom whowas considered the wisest and greatest lawgiver of the Asante people in the West Africa.
He was known for his reported abilities for healing and regulating nature and for establishing codes for conduct.
There are some uncertainty about his lineage. One tradition holds it that he was born in Akwapim which is known for it fetish activities.
Some historians have claimed that his mother and father were from Asante and Adansi respectively and was related to Otumfio Osei Tutu, the military leader with whom he would later build the kingdom with.
But all arguments went to sleep when Otumfuo Osei Tutu was asked to clear the air regarding the lineage of Okomfo Anokye and h answered and said YES he was an Asante and not as people say.
He continued to say that Okomfo Anokye together with his forefathers built the Asante kingdom.
In 1902, the first motor vehicle arrived in the Ghana by then called Gold Coast. The fragile and finicky vehicle, a paraffin fueled and steam driven French Gardner Serpollet car cost £543.
It was brought in for Governor by then called, Matthew Nathan.
The car was a symbol of luxury and Western modernity in the West African colony, but Nathan’s vehicle was also an experiment.
British Secretary of State for the Colonies Joseph Chamberlain had suggested two years earlier that “it might be advisable to employ a motor car as an experiment on the roads near Accra and Cape Coast.”
It was in that regards car came to Ghana. The British colonial officials like Chamberlain believed that motor vehicles would revolutionize.
At that time, cars were used to show wealth and luxury but now, many people in Ghana have cars and many can afford a public means.
In the olden days when cars came to Ghana, it was not common for ordinary person to enter a car. It was only used by well known wealthy people especially people in government.
Krepin Diatta has been trolled heavily on social media over his looks which has been popularly deemed as ugly.
Senegalese player, Krepin Diatta who earlier showed off his gorgeous white girlfriend. The football is currently not happy after several fans mocked him for his alleged ugly facial look.
His team lost yesterday by a lone goal to Algeria although the player had a good game on the pitch.
He wrote; “I am very sad to see some African brothers making fun of me. I work for our beautiful and dear African continent and what I receive in return are only insults, mockery of my brothers.This is too bad of you and racism comes from there. I need your encouragement and not your insults. Thank you to everyone who supports me. Only God makes my strength and I am proud of my physical person.Your mockery won’t change anything in my life. But one thing is for sure, we are all african.”
Yohannes IV, a nobleman by birth, a cleric by education, a zealot by faith, moralist by tendency, a monk by practice, a nationalist by policy, and a soldier and emperor by profession
Yohannes IV’s birth name was Kahsai Mrcha. He was born on July 12 1837 at Mai Beha Tembien. His father was Shum Tembien Mircha Woldekidan ofTembien.
Mircha’s mother Woyzero Workewoha Kalekirstos was the grand daoughter of Ras Suhulmikael Eskiyass of Adwa Where he traces his royal blood.
Kahssai’s (Emperor Yohannes) mother was Woyzero Silass Dimtsu, daoughter of Dejazmach Dimtsu of Enderta. Her mother was woyzero Tabotu Woldu Agame; sister of Dejazmach Sibagadis Woldu of Agame. So Emperor Yohannes on his father’s side is from Timbien and Adwa. On his mother’s side he is from Enderta and Agame.
He defeated Wagshum Gobeze (Emperor Tekle Giyorgis) on July 11 1871 30 kms from the city of Adwa. Gobeze had 60,000 troops and Kahssai had 12,000 troops. Gobeze’s wife was kahssai’s sister. Before the crushing defeat Gobeze’s wife warrned him saying the following poem.
Dejazmach Kassai was crowned emperor January 12, 1872 at the historic Tigraian city of Axum. He took the name and title of Emperor Yohannes IV, King of Zion and King of Kings of Ethiopia, becoming the first emperor crowned in that historic city since Emperor Fasilides in 1632.
Emperor Yohannes was an extraondinary military leader and a very religous king. He was the top vangaurd of Ethiopia. On October 11 1875 Egypt occupied the city-state of Harrar and they were advancing from the port of Masswa on the north.
Yohannes marched up north and met them at Gundet on November 16 1875. The Egyptians did not know the local area and they were fooled in to marching in to a narrow and steep valley and were wiped out by the Eperor’s troops hiding on the valley from the surrounding mountains.
Most of the Egyptian force, along with its many officers of European and North American background, was killed. He also defeated them again at the battle of Gura on march 9 1876.
At the end he was betrayd by the shewan king, menilk who secretly signed an agreement with Italians to invade the country from the north in exchange of the crown.
In 1889 Yohannes was battiling so many domestic and external enemies at the same time. The mahdists from sudan on the west, the Italians on the north, Menilk on the south and the Gojams on the south west.
He decided to defeat the Mahdists from Sudan and he did, but at the end of the battle Mortally wounded by a sniper bullet he died after a few hours Battle of Metemma on March 9, 1889.
