Mathieu Da Costa: The Black man (Ladino Moor) Who Discovered Canada

Mathieu Dacosta

MATHIEU DA COSTA: THE LADINO MOOR WHO DISCOVERED CANADA

By Oguejiofo Annu

Mathieu DaCosta was an black ladino Moorish Jew of Iberian origins. He was a Portugese Moor, and his family had lived in Portugal for at least 600 years as the lords of the land before they were brutally conquered, and expelled from Portugal by the barbaric hordes of Reconquista Gothic crusaders, under the banner of the papacy of Vatican. The Moors of Portugal were expelled by 1497, with the Edicts of expulsion and the “Leis de Limpeza de Sangue”(The Laws of the Cleaness of Blood). read more

FEAR OF BLACKNESS PART II – Dana Marniche

Mahra
Mahra

FEAR OF BLACKNESS PART II

EARLY DESCRIPTIONS OF THE CENTRAL ARABIAN TRIBESMEN WHO COMPRISED THE “MOORS” OF SPAIN

“The Moors of the host wore silks and colourful clothes which they had taken as booty… their horses’ reins were like fire, their faces as black as pitch, the handsomest among them was black as a cooking pot and their eyes blazed like fire; their horses as swift as leopards, their horsemen more cruel than the wolf that comes to a sheepfold in the night…Oh luckless Spain!” description of the Moors written in the 1200s A.D. and cited in, An Introduction to African Civilizations, by Willis N. Huggins and John J. Jackson, New York, 1937, and in Colin Smith’s, Christians and Moors in Spain vol. 1 2nd edition p. 97. read more

Fear of Blackness: Descriptions and Ethnogenesis of the original Afro-Arabian tribes of “Moorish” Spain By Dana Marniche

Sinai Bedouins
Sinai Bedouins

Fear of Blackness: Descriptions and Ethnogenesis of the original Afro-Arabian tribes of “Moorish” Spain

PART I

“…a fair-skinned Arab is something inconceivable… “ Ibn Abd Rabbu of Cordoba born 9thc. in El Iqd el Farid (The Precious Necklace), quoting Shuraik el-Qadi a 7th century Arab of the clan of Nakha’l of the Maddhij in the Yemen. read more

Black Africans of Ancient Mediterranean Part 4 : Around The Earth – By Dr Anu Mauro

PART FOUR – AROUND THE EARTH

By Dr Anu Mauro 
ANTI-KUSHITEISM

Just how anti-black sentiments became so deeply entrenched even within populations of ‘ethiopic’ ancestry is a complex matter.  In the end the real lesson probably lies in understanding the affect that all myths, legends and stories can have on the human group-mind and in shaping the everyday behavior of ordinary people. read more

The Moorish Cities of Lagos in Nigeria and Portugal – Jide Uwechia

THE MOORISH CITIES OF LAGOS IN NIGERIA AND PORTUGAL

By Jide Uwechia

Georges Jansoone – Self-photographed Miniature drawing of a caravel from 16th century; Museum of the Forte da Ponta da Bandeira; Lagos, Portugal

The capital of Nigeria and the biggest state in Nigeria, West Africa are named Lagos. Lagos is an Iberic word which means the lakes. The province of Algrave in Portugal also has a city by the name of Lagos. How come the capital of Nigeria is situated in a locality named after a Portugese word is one of those not so known incidents of history. read more