What is written on the walls of KEMET and in the books of TIMBUKTU is also written in the hearts of AFRICAN WARRIORS who carry the spirit of MENES, SETI, TUT-MOSES, HANNIBAL, SHAKA and other great AFRICAN "LEADERS.
The DESTINY of all true AFRICAN warriors is to lead our people towards the building of EMPIRES. WE ARE RULERS and we shall return ourselves to RULING the earth by the MIGHT of our WILLS, the STRENGTH of our SPIRITS, and for the LOVE of our PEOPLE.
We must rebuild our COMMUNITIES, reinstitute our INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS, reaffirm our DOMINANCE, consolidate our BASE, and assume our rightful position as THE CONQUERING LIONS OF AFRICA AND ASIA.
The CHAINS that once held us TOGETHER in bondage must now be used to HOLD us together in VICTORY. It is our RIGHT and DUTY to be counted among the NATIONS of the world. INDEED we are a NATION WITHIN A NATION both here and around the world. The time is NOW, return to your RIGHTFUL place of RULERSHIP and "KNOW THYSELF AS THE MARVEL OF THE UNIVERSE".... - Marquis Milles Mansa
"let nothing kill the empire urge" -Marcus Mosiah Garvey
“Up, up, you mighty race! You can accomplish/ what you will.” - Marcus Garvey
“God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.” - Marcus Garvey
AFRICAN EMPIRES:
ANCIENT NORTH AFRICA:
Pre-Islamic empires of North Africa:
Egyptian Empire (3100 BC – 870 BC)
Kushite Empire (760 BC–656 BC)
Ancient Carthage (575 BC - 146 BC)
NORTH AFRICAN ISLAMIC EMPIRES:
In Morocco:
Idrisid dynasty (789 AD – 974 AD)
Almoravid dynasty (1061 AD – 1145 AD)
Almohad dynasty (1145 AD – 1244 AD)
Marinid dynasty (1244 AD – 1465 AD)
Wattasid dynasty (1471 AD – 1554 AD)
Saadi dynasty (1554 AD – 1659 AD)
Alaouite dynasty (1666 AD – current)
In Tunisia:
Fatimid dynasty (Tunisian period) (910 AD – 969 AD)
Zirid dynasty (973 AD – 1148 AD)
Hafsid dynasty (1229 AD – 1574 AD)
In Egypt:
Fatimid dynasty (Egyptian period) (969 AD – 1171 AD)
Ayyubid dynasty (1171 AD – 1254 AD)
Mamluk dynasty (1250 AD – 1517 AD)
In Sudan:
The Sennar Sultanate (1502 AD - 1821 AD) was a sultanate in the north of Sudan, named Funj after the ethnic group of its dynasty or Sinnar (or Sennar) after its capital, which ruled a substantial area of the Sudan region.
NORTH EAST AFRICA:
Aksumite Empire (50 AD–937 AD)
Ethiopian Empire (1137–1974)
Zagwe dynasty (1137–1270)
Solomonic dynasty (1270–1974)
Ifat Sultanate (1285 AD–1415 AD)
Warsangali Sultanate (1298 AD–present)
Ajuuraan Empire (1300s AD–1600s AD]
Adal Sultanate (1415 AD–1555 AD)
Geledi sultanate (late 17th century–late 19th century)
Majeerteen Sultanate (mid-18th century–early 20th century)
Kingdom of Gomma (early 1800s AD–1886 AD)
Kingdom of Jimma (1830 AD–1932 AD)
Kingdom of Gumma (1840 AD–1902 AD)
Sultanate of Hobyo (1880s AD–1920s AD)
Dervish State (1896 AD–1920 AD)
SAHEILIAN KINGDOMS:
(The Sahelian kingdoms were a series of medieval empires centred on the sahel, the area of grasslands south of the Sahara)
-The Nok Civilization is considered to be one of the most advanced ancient sub-Saharan civilizations in African history. Beginning some time around 500 BCE, it was largely concentrated in what is now Nigeria but produced some of the first sub-Saharan iron smelting and terracotta architecture. Mysteriously died out around 200 CE.
-The first major state to rise in this region was the Kingdom of Ghana. Centered in what is today Senegal and Mauritania, it was the first to benefit from the introduction of pack animals by Arab traders. Ghana dominated the region between about 750 and 1078. Smaller states in the region at this time included Takrur to the west, the Malinke kingdom of Mali to the south, and the Songhai Empire centred around Gao to the east.
-When Ghana collapsed in the face of invasion from the Almoravids, a series of brief kingdoms followed, notably that of the Sosso; after 1235, the Mali Empire rose to dominate the region. Located on the Niger River to the west of Ghana in what is today Niger and Mali, it reached its peak in the 1350s, but had lost control of a number of vassal states by 1400.
-The most powerful of these states was the Songhai Empire, which expanded rapidly beginning with king Sonni Ali in the 1460s. By 1500, it had risen to stretch from Cameroon to the Maghreb, the largest state in African history. It too was quite short-lived and collapsed in 1591 as a result of Moroccan musketry.
-Far to the east, on Lake Chad, the state of Kanem-Bornu, founded as Kanem in the 9th century, now rose to greater preeminence in the central Sahel region. To their west, the loosely united Hausa city-states became dominant. These two states coexisted uneasily, but were quite stable.
-In 1810 the Fulani Empire rose and conquered the Hausa, creating a more centralized state. It and Kanem-Bornu would continue to exist until the arrival of Europeans, when both states would fall and the region would be divided between France and Great Britain.
-Wolof Empire (1350 AD - 1889 AD)
EMPIRES OF 15th-19th CENTURY AFRICA:
From the 15th century until the final Scramble for Africa in the late 19th century, a number of empires emerge also south of the Sahel, especially in West Africa.
WEST AFRICA:
-The Kingdom of Nri (1043 - 1911) was the West African medieval state of the Nri-Igbo, a subgroup of the Igbo people, and is the oldest kingdom in Nigeria. The Kingdom of Nri was unusual in the history of world government in that its leader exercised no military power over his subjects. The kingdom existed as a sphere of religious and political influence over much of Igboland, and was administered by a priest-king called the eze Nri. The eze Nri managed trade and diplomacy on behalf of the Igbo people, and was the possessor of divine authority in religious matters.
-The Oyo Empire (1400 AD - 1895 AD) was a West African empire of what is today western Nigeria. The empire was established by the Yoruba in the 15th century and grew to become one of the largest West African states. It rose to preeminence through wealth gained from trade and its possession of a powerful cavalry. The Oyo Empire was the most politically important state in the region from the mid-17th to the late 18th century, holding sway not only over other Yoruba states, but also over the Fon kingdom of Dahomey (located in the state now known as the Republic of Benin).
-Benin Empire (1440 AD - 1897 AD), a large pre-colonial African state of modern Nigeria.
-Kaabu Empire (1537 AD - 1867 AD), a Mandinka Kingdom of Senegambia (centered on modern northeastern Guinea-Bissau but extending into Casamance, Senegal) that rose to prominence in the region thanks to its origins as a former province of the Mali Empire. After the decline of the Mali
Empire, Kaabu became an independent kingdom.
-Aro Confederacy (1690 AD - 1902 AD), a slave trading political union orchestrated by the Igbo subgroup, the Aro people, centered in Arochukwu in present day Southeastern Nigeria.
-Bonoman (11th Century- 19th Century) - Earliest known Akan state. Gold trading and Kola nut trading with Northern Neighbors brought wealth and prosperity to Akan creators of this state.. Culture influenced much of modern Akan culture.
-Asante Union (1701 AD - 1894 AD), a pre-colonial Akan West African state of what is now the Ashanti Region in Ghana. The empire stretched from central Ghana to present day Togo and Côte d'Ivoire, bordered by the Dagomba kingdom to the north and Dahomey to the east. Today, the Ashanti monarchy continues as one of the constitutionally protected, sub-national traditional states within the Republic of Ghana.
-Various states by Akan people (11th Century -19th Century)
-Kong Empire (1710 AD - 1898 AD) centered in north eastern Côte d'Ivoire that also encompassed much of present-day Burkina Faso.
-Bamana Empire (1712 AD - 1896 AD) based at Ségou, now in Mali. It was ruled by the Kulubali or Coulibaly dynasty established circa 1640 by Fa Sine also known as Biton-si-u. The empire existed as a centralized state from 1712 to the 1861 invasion of Toucouleur conqueror El Hadj Umar Tall.
-Sokoto Caliphate (1804 AD - 1903 AD), an Islamic empire in Nigeria, led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’adu Abubakar. Founded during the Fulani Jihad in the early 19th century, it was one of the most powerful empires in sub-Saharan Africa prior to European conquest and colonization. The caliphate remained extant through the colonial period and afterwards, though with reduced power.
-Wassoulou Empire (1878 AD - 1898 AD), a short-lived empire of built from the conquests of Dyula ruler Samori Ture and destroyed by the French colonial army.
GREAT LAKES:
-An Empire of Kitara in the area of the Great Lakes of Africa has long been treated as a historical entity, but is now mostly considered an unhistorical narrative created as a response to the dawn of rule under the Lwo empire, the sole historical record of an organized Nilotic migration into the area.
-The Buganda (1300 AD - present), home of the Buganda people of Uganda
KONGO:
-The Kongo Kingdom (1400 AD - 1888 AD) was a quasi-imperial state as is evident by the number of peoples and kingdoms that paid it tribute. If not for the large amount of text written by the EssiKongo that repeatedly called themselves a kingdom, they would be listed as the "Kongo Empire".
-The Luba Empire (1585 AD - 1885 AD) arose in the marshy grasslands of the Upemba Depression in what is now southern Democratic Republic of Congo.
-Lunda Empire (1660 AD - 1887 AD) in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, north-eastern Angola and northwestern Zambia. Its central state was in Katanga.
SOUTH AFRICA:
The Mutapa Empire or Empire of Great Zimbabwe (1450 AD - 1629 AD) was a medieval kingdom located between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers of Southern Africa in the modern states of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Remnants of the historical capital are found in the ruins of Great Zimbabwe.
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