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Thomas Fuller was an African man who was sold into slavery in 1724 at the age of 14. He became famous for his amazing ability to solve difficult math problems in his head, earning him the nickname the "Virginia Calculator." One day, someone asked him how many seconds there were in a year and a half. After thinking for only two minutes, he quickly answered, "47,304,000." Then, he was asked how many seconds a man had lived if he was 70 years, 17 days, and 12 hours old. Fuller answered in just a minute and a half, saying, "2,210,500,800." Another man, who was working the problem out on paper, said that Fuller’s answer was wrong and that it was actually much smaller. Fuller quickly responded, "Top, massa, you forget de leap year." Once they added in the leap year, the numbers matched exactly

 That's good message that reminds everyone else how much does African deal with their own problem Our ancestors had a profound way of dealing with P.T.S.D It was believed that after a war...when a man had returned from war, before he could be accepted back into society. He had to live with a shaman for 3 months to do some spiritual cleansing. It was said that after war, the human spirit was off balance and required to undergo some ritual in order to restore it back in harmony with nature and the community.  A horn was used to draw out stagnant and dsyfunctional blood to the surface. This is one of the ritual that was performed on the warriors to cleanse them of any mental illness and trauma that they might experience later on in life after the war. This process was carried out by Africans long ago before it was allegedly deemed a Chinese invention. It was called "African suction cup," by the colonizers. This is one of the many practices that have been lost due to African ...

 Image: Top: Hardiman wearing wig and hat as a teenager to cover his scalp wound. Bottom: Hardiman’s scalp wound. When Vertus Hardiman’s parents signed the consent form that allowed their five-year-old son partake in a “new form of ringworm treatment,” they had no idea they were signing their lovely son into misery. In 1928, Hardiman and nine other children were taken from their small Indiana community to a nearby hospital and given high-dose radiation which turned out to be the new cure for ringworm that their parents were made to believe. After their time in the hospital, they all complained of headaches followed by complete loss of the hairs on their scalp. Vertus Hardiman was so irradiated that he developed a big open wound on his scalp that extended to his skull. He wore wig for the rest of his life to cover the incurable wound. Vertus’s wound eventually became cancerous and ultimately ended his life at age 85. Only in his final years did he begin to speak out about the horrif...