16th Century (1500-1599)
Queen Turunku Bakwa (?-1566)
Scholars have been able to assemble only a meager amount of information about Queen Turunku Bakwa of Zazzau, at that...
The Obas of Benin (1200 to the present) : A Brief History of the Rulers of A West African State for Eight Centuries
In the following article, Collins Edigin, a historian at the University of Benin in Benin City, Nigeria, describes the rule...
Queen Amina (1533-1610)
Queen Amina was a warrior and ruler of Zaria, a Hausa city-state in what is now Northern Nigeria. She ruled...
Lope Martin (1520?-?)
In 1564 Lope Martin, an Afro-Portuguese mariner, navigated the first round-trip voyage in the Pacific Ocean from Mexico to the...
North from Mexico: The First Black Settlers in the U.S. West
The first Black settlers in what is now the western United States were Spanish speakers who came north from what...
San Miguel de Gualdape Slave Rebellion (1526)
San Miguel de Gualdape is a former Spanish colony founded in 1526 by Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon. It was the...
The 1521 Santo Domingo Slave Revolt
The 1521 Santo Domingo Slave Revolt occurred in the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola during...
Ladinos and Bozales: A Brief Early History of Africans in Colombia: 1500-1800
Few people realize that the percentage of people of African ancestry in the South American nation of Colombia (7%) is...
Miguel I de Buría (1510-1555)
Miguel I de Buría, also known as King Miguel and Miguel the Black, was a formerly enslaved man from San...
