Born on April 24, 1827, Ghana’s Kwasi Boakye is the world’s first black engineer. The African-Dutch mining engineer was a prince of the Ashanti Empire and the eldest son of Kwaku Dua II, a king of the Ashanti kingdom. In 1837, along with his cousin Kwame Poku, the prince left […]
A Ghanaian teenager, who taught himself software programming, has designed a predictive analytics model using artificial intelligence to diagnose breast cancer. 19-year old Mustapha Diyanol Haqq from Kumasi, the capital of the country’s Ashanti Region, drew inspiration from “seeing how the big tech companies used innovation to solve some of […]
Rwanda’s President, Paul Kagame on Monday officially launched two new smartphones manufactured in Africa. The new phones are the first “Made in Africa” models produced by a Rwandan based company called Mara Group. Mara X and Mara Z are now available for purchase to consumers. They were showcased in May […]
Iran Parliamentarians have moved a bill in order to protect the rights of children which includes a clause that lets a man marry his own adopted daughter considering the fact that she is 13 years old. However, activists of the country have expressed alarm that the bill sanctioned by parliament, […]
Rwandan President, Paul Kagame has appeal to those African refugees who have found home in Rwanda after long enslavement in Libya to stay within the laws of his country so they can contribute to the development of Africa. Libya returnees? Meeting these refugees for the first time since they arrived […]
Why do humans fear death so much? Is it the fear of the unknown? The thought that we haven’t done enough with our lives? Why are we so scared of dying? Gaining an understanding about death, allows us to understand more about life. Fear of death is one of the […]
The world’s first-ever human-monkey hybrid has been grown by a Spanish scientist in a lab in China, which was viable and could have been born, but the process was terminated. Monkey embryos were genetically modified to create a hybrid embryo. They deactivated certain genes that lead to the formation organs, […]
In many countries around the world, New Year’s Day is celebrated on 1 st January with fireworks and festivities the evening before. But this is not the only type of New Year’s celebration and not everyone celebrates on 1 st January. Here we look at celebrations to honour the New […]
Zimbabwean judges wear long red robes and horsehair wigs, a throwback to an era of British colonialism, in Harare in January. (Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP) NAIROBI — The British gave up their last colonies in Africa half a century ago. But they left their wigs behind. Not just any wigs. They are […]
Members of Parliament are analyzing a government proposal to abolish 1000 legal instruments that were enacted by the colonial-era regime. The proposal was tabled before the parliamentary standing committee on political affairs and gender in the Chamber of Deputies by State Minister for Constitutional and Legal affairs, Evode Uwizeyimana. Uwizeyimana […]
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