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The Bialetti Moka pot stovetop pressurized espresso maker was named after the Yemini city by the Italian engineer inventor Alfonso Bialetti in 1933. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] At the time Mocha was a famous leading producer and trader of coffee worldwide with a history going back 500 years, and also became known for its unique Yemini wild Mocha coffee beans.
In the theory officially accepted today by the city, it bears the name of Voortrekker leaders Piet Retief and Gert Maritz. In another theory, the city was originally named after Retief alone, initially "Pieter Mouriets Burg" (after his given names) and transformed to its current form. Pinetown – Sir Benjamin Pine, governor of Natal
1 Africa. 2 Asia. Toggle Asia subsection. ... Museum of Contemporary Art (often abbreviated to MCA, MoCA or MOCA) ... Kansas City, Missouri;
Moka, or Moca, is a town located on the island of Bioko in Equatorial Guinea. The town is named after the Bubi King Möókáta, or King Moka, who ruled from 1835 to 1845 and again in 1875 through 1898 during the Bahítáari Dynasty.
The terms African civilizations, also classical African civilizations, or African empires are terms that generally refer to the various pre-colonial African kingdoms.The civilizations usually include Egypt, Carthage, Axum, [1] Numidia, and Nubia, [1] but may also be extended to the prehistoric Land of Punt and others: Kingdom of Dagbon, the Empire of Ashanti, Kingdom of Kongo, Empire of Mali ...
While Thomas Mofolo's work has been widely examined, his life story has been largely overlooked and no complete biography has been published. [1] What is known stems from a short autobiographical sketch that appeared in 1930, the work of Daniel Kunene in the 1980s, and more recent archival research by the curator of Morija Museum and Archives.
A Maasai man. The former swamp land occupied by the city now was once inhabited by a pastoralist people, the Maasai, the sedentary Akamba people, as well as the agriculturalist Kikuyu people, under the British East Africa protectorate when the British decided to build a railroad from Mombasa to Kisumu on the edge of Lake Victoria in order to open East Africa and make it accessible for trade ...
A local city-state which much influence over the hinterland neighboring coastal towns. [26] [27] Entrance of a coral stone house in Mogadishu. For many years Mogadishu functioned as the pre-eminent city in the بلد البربر (Bilad al Barbar – "Land of the Berbers"), as medieval Arabic-speakers named the Somali coast.