Only a few people have ever heard of the African Roman Emperor who influenced Britaiń in the first century. His name is Lucius Septimius Severus, born on 11 April 145 and died on 4 February 211.
He was a black Roman Emperor born in Leptis Magna, present-day Al-Khums in Libya. Severus was born into a family of great wealth and they were distinguished and of equestrian rank. His mother was of Italian descent and his father was from North Africa.
He was the first emperor born into a regional family of non-Italian origin.
His mother’s ancestors came from Italy to North Africa.
They belonged to the gens Fulvia, an Italian aristocratic family that had its origins in Tusculum.
His father was an unknown provincial with no political status. He had two cousins who served as consuls under emperor Antoninus Pius between 138 and 161. They were named Publius Septimius Severus and Gaius Septimius Severus.
The Influence Of Septimius Severus on the British.
He responded to the cry for help by the British governor. He needed protection from brigands who were attacking Britiśh citizens.
In response to the danger, he built the walls of Roman London, about a square mile to help protect London. These walls are defined by what Septimius Severus did for Britäin.
He set up camp in York and fought alongside garrisons to help protect London from the dangers. After killiņg the incoming emperor, Didius Julianus, he fought other claimants to the throne and defeated them.
The claimants were Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus. Niger was defeated at the Battle of Issus in Cilicia, while Albinus was defeated three years later at the Battle of Lugdunum in Gaul. A short punitive campaign beyond the eastern frontier won him the Kingdom of Osroene as a new province.
He waged wärs in the east against the Parthian Empire and sacked the capital in 197. This helped to expand his territory on the eastern frontier to Tigris. His territory increased and was fortified at Limes Arabicus in Arabia Petraea.
He campaigned in Africa and Mauretania against the Garamantes in 202. He captured their capital Garama and expanded the Limes Tripolitanus close to the southern desert frontier.
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Thomas Fuller
Quick Info
Born
1710
West Africa
Died
December 1790
Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Summary
Thomas Fuller was an African-born slave in America who was a prodigious mental calculator.
Biography
Little is known of Thomas Fuller. Fauvel and Paulus [1] write:-
Thomas Fuller was an African, shipped to America as a slave in 1724. He had remarkable powers of calculation, and late in his life was discovered by antislavery campaigners who used him as a demonstration that blacks are not mentally inferior to whites.
The place of his birth appears to have been between present day Liberia and Benin. Known as Negro Tom, we know that he was described as a very black man and also we know that he lived in Virginia after being brought to the United States as a slave. Certainly late in his life he was the property of Elixabeth Coxe of Alexandria. Scripture writes in [4]:-
Thomas Fuller, known as the Virginia Calculator, was stolen from his native Africa at the age of fourteen and sold to a planter. When he was about seventy years old, two gentlemen, natives of Pennsylvania, viz., William Hartshorne and Samuel Coates, men of probity and respectable characters, having heard, in travelling through the neighbourhood in which the slave lived, of his extraordinary powers in arithmetic, sent for him and had their curiosity sufficiently gratified by the answers which he gave to the following questions: First, Upon being asked how many seconds there were in a year and a half, he answered in about two minutes, 47 304 000. Second: On being asked how many seconds a man has lived who is 70 years, 17 days and 12 hours old, he answered in a minute and a half 2 210 500 800. One of the gentlemen who employed himself with his pen in making these calculations told him he was wrong, and the sum was not so great as he had said - upon which the old man hastily replied: stop, master, you forget the leap year. On adding the amount of the seconds of the leap years the amount of the whole in both their sums agreed exactly.

Another question was asked and satisfactorily answered. Before two other gentlemen he gave the amount of nine figures multiplied by nine. ... In 1790 he died at the age of 80 years, having never learned to read or write, in spite of his extraordinary power of calculation.
Present day thinking is that Fuller learnt to calculate in Africa before he was brought to the United States as a slave. Supporting evidence for this comes from a passage written by Thomas Clarkson in 1788 describing the purchase of African slaves:-
It is astonishing with what facility the African brokers reckon up the exchange of European goods for slaves. One of these brokers has ten slaves to sell , and for each of these he demands ten different articles. He reduces them immediately by the head to bars, coppers, ounces... and immediately strikes the balance. The European, on the other hand, takes his pen, and with great deliberation, and with all the advantage of arithmetic and letters, begin to estimate also. He is so unfortunate, as to make a mistake: but he no sooner errs, than he is detected by this man of inferior capacity, whom he can neither deceive in the name or quality of his goods, nor in the balance of his account.
Despite Fuller's calculating abilities he was never taught to read or write and again this is evidence that he did not learn to calculate while in the United States. When someone who had witnessed his calculating abilities remarked that it was a pity he had not been educated, Fuller replied (see [3]):-
It is best I got no learning; for many learned men be great fools.

This woman right here is the first Nigerian woman to buy a car.
Her name is Efunroye Tinubu.
She was a very rich SLAVE TRADER.
In connivance with the portuguese, she exported her own people in ships to work in sugarcane farms in faraway Brazil, Caribbean, and on the gold mines of the United States.
Yet the queen is to blame abi?
The slavery we even cry about, was it not our own ancestors - kings and village chiefs that captured their own people for the whites to export?
In exchange for what? - mirror, porcelain, spirits, dane guns etc.
How can a sane human prefer worthless items to his own brothers and sisters - his own kinsmen???
These are the kind of ancestors we pour libation to.
Yet we blame the europeans only, when our ancestors were actively complicit
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Mansa Musa (Musa I of Mali)🇲🇱 was the king of the ancient empire of Mali in West Africa.
Mansa Musa (Musa I of Mali) was the ruler of the kingdom of Mali from 1312 C.E. to 1337 C.E. During his reign, Mali was one of the richest kingdoms of Africa, and Mansa Musa was among the richest individuals in the world. The ancient kingdom of Mali spread across parts of modern-day Mali, Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Mauritania, and Burkina Faso. Mansa Musa developed cities like Timbuktu and Gao into important cultural centers. He also brought architects from the Middle East and across Africa to design new buildings for his cities. Mansa Musa turned the kingdom of Mali into a sophisticated center of learning in the Islamic world.
Mansa Musa came to power in 1312 C.E., after the previous king, Abu Bakr II, disappeared at sea. Mansa Abu Bakr II had departed on a large fleet of ships to explore the Atlantic Ocean, and never returned. Mansa Musa inherited a kingdom that was already wealthy, but his work in expanding trade made Mali the wealthiest kingdom in Africa. His riches came from mining significant salt and gold deposits in the Mali kingdom. Elephant ivory was another major source of wealth.
When Mansa Musa went on a pilgrimage (hajj) to Mecca in 1324 C.E., his journey through Egypt caused quite a stir. The kingdom of Mali was relatively unknown outside of West Africa until this event. Arab writers from the time said that he travelled with an entourage of tens of thousands of people and dozens of camels, each carrying 136 kilograms (300 pounds) of gold. While in Cairo, Mansa Musa met with the Sultan of Egypt, and his caravan spent and gave away so much gold that the overall value of gold decreased in Egypt for the next 12 years. Stories of his fabulous wealth even reached Europe. The Catalan Atlas, created in 1375 C.E. by Spanish cartographers, shows West Africa dominated by a depiction of Mansa Musa sitting on a throne, holding a nugget of gold in one hand and a golden staff in the other. After the publication of this atlas, Mansa Musa became cemented in the global imagination as a figure of stupendous wealth.
After his return from Mecca, Mansa Musa began to revitalize cities in his kingdom. He built mosques and large public buildings in cities like Gao and, most famously, Timbuktu. Timbuktu became a major Islamic university center during the 14th century due to Mansa Musa’s developments. Mansa Musa brought architects and scholars from across the Islamic world into his kingdom, and the reputation of the Mali kingdom grew. The kingdom of Mali reached its greatest extent around the same time, a bustling, wealthy kingdom thanks to Mansa Musa’s expansion and administration.
Mansa Musa died in 1337 and was succeeded by his sons. His skillful administration left his empire well-off at the time of his death, but eventually, the empire fell apart. Well after his death, Mansa Musa remained engrained in the imagination of the world as a symbol of fabulous wealth. However, his riches are only one part of his legacy, and he is also remembered for his Islamic faith, promotion of scholarship, and patronage of culture in Mali.
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Empress Taytu Betul
c.1851–1918 Itege (Empress) Taytu Betul of Ethiopia, (c.1851-1918) was married to Emperor Menelik II, who is said to have been her equal and partner as theirs was not only a love marriage, but a political alliance as well. As a young girl, she received an education, something that not a lot of Ethiopian women were privileged enough to receive at the time.
She founded Addis Ababa and made it the capital of the empire. She also established and managed businesses such as Addis Ababa’s first modern hotel: Itege Hotel, whose clients included Ethiopian nobility and even Menelik II himself to show support for his queen wife. She established a wool factory and a candle factory with help from Turkish and Indian experts to pave the way for her empire’s industrialization. She also set up Ethiopia’s first domestic financial institution to modernize Ethiopia’s economy through access to financing and thus strengthen commerce.
Itege Taytu -the light of Ethiopia- shone at her brightest when the Italians tried to make Ethiopia their colony.
Since Tatyu and Menelik II played bad cop – good cop respectively when it came to the empire’s issues, it was clearly time for bad cop antics.
Itege Taytu was the bad cop in this empire.
Itege Taytu was of great importance to the war effort against Italy. She was the receiver and analyzer of intelligence from spies, which was of crucial importance to the war effort.
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"I am a woman. I do not like war. However, I would rather die rather than accepting your deal.... Don't ever think that we are not willing to sacrifice our comfort and die for our country. Giving ones life for the county is an honorable death." - Empress Taitu Betul, a verse taken from the book 'Emperor Menelik' by Paulos Gnogno.
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