Disputed History

The Disputed Legend of a Pre-Columbian Malian Voyage to the Americas (Article)
Félix Tshisekedi's 2019 Inauguration and the DRC's Disputed 'Peaceful Transfer' (Article)
The Adam and Eve Mural of Abreha wa-Atsbeha, and What's Actually Known About Its Age (Article)
Idi Amin's Own Justification for Expelling Uganda's Asians (Article)
The April 2020 Anti-African Racism Crisis in Guangzhou, China (Article)
The Sarkozy-Gaddafi Campaign Funding Scandal (Article)
"Conqueror of the British Empire": Idi Amin's Self-Invented Titles (Article)
Ethiopia's 14th-Century Cannabis Pipes, and a Popular Claim That Doesn't Hold Up (Article)
The 1966 Coup That Overthrew Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah (Article)
The 2021 Omicron Travel Bans on Southern Africa (Article)
Trump's Fabricated 'White Genocide' Ambush of Ramaphosa in the Oval Office (Article)
Sani Abacha: Nigeria's Strongman and His Sudden Death in 1998 (Article)
Trump's June 2025 Travel Ban and Chad's Retaliation (Article)
Cheikh Anta Diop and the Contested Question of Ancient Egypt's Race (Article)
Did Human Language Begin in Southern Africa? A Contested 2011 Study (Article)
The Queen of Sheba, King Solomon, and the Ethiopian Legend of Menelik I (Article)
Did a Queen Candace Really Halt Alexander the Great? The Legend and the Real Kandakes of Kush (Article)
The Siddis: India's Real African Diaspora, and the Myth of 'Indo-Negroids' (Article)
Ivan Van Sertima and 'They Came Before Columbus' (Article)
The US Presidents Rumored to Have Had Black Ancestry (Article)
Gaddafi's 2009 UN Speech: What Actually Happened at the Podium (Article)
Herodotus on the Ethiopians and the 'Black' Indians (Article)
How Africa's Literacy Rates Actually Rank, According to UNESCO (Article)
Gaddafi's Fixation on Condoleezza Rice (Article)
The Kilwa Sultanate and the Mystery of Its Coins in Australia (Article)
Great Zimbabwe: The Medieval Stone City and the Fight to Credit Its Builders (Article)
Nelson Mandela's 1962 Arrest — and the Disputed CIA Tip-Off Claim (Article)
The 1966 Coup Against Nkrumah and the Disputed Question of US Involvement (Article)
Malcolm X's House Negro and Field Negro Analogy (Article)
Reactions to Trump's 'Shithole Countries' Remark About Africa and Haiti (Article)
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: Activist, Icon, and Contested Figure (Article)
The Ife Bronzes: A German Explorer Couldn't Believe Africans Made Them, So He Blamed Atlantis (Article)
The Middle Passage's Real Numbers: 12.5 Million Embarked, Not 20 Million (Article)
The Zanj Rebellion: A 14-Year Slave Revolt That Shook the Abbasid Caliphate (Article)
The Land of Punt: Egypt's Trading Partner That Modern Science Is Still Locating (Article)
The Dogon and Sirius B: A 'Lost Ancient Knowledge' Story That Later Fieldwork Couldn't Confirm (Article)
Gorée Island's 'Door of No Return': What Historians Actually Dispute (Article)
The Chibok Schoolgirls: What Actually Happened After Boko Haram's 2014 Abduction (Article)
The ICC's Africa Problem: Why Nearly Every Early Case Involved an African State (Article)
Adam's Calendar: A 400-Year-Old Cattle Enclosure Marketed as a 200,000-Year-Old Metropolis (Article)
The 'Curse of Ham': A Bible Story With No Mention of Race, Turned Into Slavery's Justification (Article)
Was Nubia the 'World's Oldest Civilization'? What the Nabta Playa Evidence Actually Shows (Article)
The Three African Popes of Rome, and Why It's Been 1,500 Years Since the Last One (Article)
The 1897 Sack of Benin City and the Looting of the Benin Bronzes (Article)
Gordon Laing Won the Race to Timbuktu, and Was Murdered Two Days Later (Article)
Philip Emeagwali's Real Gordon Bell Prize, and the 'Father of the Internet' Claim He Added Later (Article)
How Arabic Words for 'Unbeliever' and 'Slave' Became Racial Slurs (Article)
The 'Zingh Empire': A 17,000-Year-Old Civilization With No Archaeological Record (Article)
No, Europeans and Africans Did Not Share Identical DNA Until 6000 BC (Article)
Benjamin Banneker's Real Role in Surveying Washington, DC (Article)
The Knife Attack on Mali's Assimi Goita During Eid Prayers (Article)
The Lekki Toll Gate Shooting and the Nigerian Government's Denial (Article)
The Imane Khelif Gender-Eligibility Controversy in Olympic Boxing (Article)
Leila Lopes, Angola's First Miss Universe (Not Africa's First) (Article)
Mandla Maseko: The 'First Black African in Space' Who Never Flew (Article)
The British MP Who Called Nelson Mandela's BBC Tribute 'Misplaced' (Article)
Idi Amin's 1973 Telegrams Mocking Kissinger's Vietnam Peace Deal (Article)
Morocco Quit the OAU in 1984, Then Was Turned Down by the EU in 1987 (Article)
Mugabe Tells CNN's Amanpour Land Reform Was 'the Best Thing' for Zimbabwe (Article)
Paul Biya Wins a Seventh Term in Cameroon Amid an Anglophone Conflict (Article)
Africa's Biggest Precolonial Empires: What's Verified, and What Just Sounds True (Article)
The Ghana Empire: West Africa's First Great Trading State, and How Its Fall Got Rewritten (Article)
The Mutapa Empire: Great Zimbabwe's Successor, and a Size Claim Historians Still Dispute (Article)
Contemporary Africa (Era)