Celebrated politician, chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola, was the first man to import a bulletproof car into Nigeria in 1964. The car was a Mercedes Benz worth £8,000. Akintola has been described as a political strategist and an orator of note, who rubbed shoulders with the likes of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe […]
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Soccer legend and Cameroon’s all-time top goalscorer, Samuel Eto’o, says he is enrolling at Harvard University in January 2020 to study business management. The former Barcelona, Inter Milan and Chelsea star is preparing for life after a stellar 22-year career that saw him rated as one of the world’s best […]
Thomas Fuller, was an enslaved African math GENIUS. He became known as the ”Virginia Calculator” because of his special gift Thomas Fuller was born in Africa between present-day Liberia and the Kingdom of Dahomey Born somewhere between the ”Slave Coast” of West Africa, present-day Liberia, and the Kingdom of Dahomey, […]
All human blood types contain and are categorized by amounts of protein—except type RH negative, that is.Is it possible that human beings possessing the latter blood type are actually from Mars,Venus, or elsewhere in the universe? Well, since the known laws of physics breakdown past the horizons of black holes, truly anything […]
EFF leader Julius Malema gave a defiant tribute to former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe, who he called a “patriot”, at a memorial service held by the party on Thursday. De Klerk? “For so long we have been told by the white man who we should and should not celebrate. Murderers […]
On July 23, 1892, a child was born in a village in eastern Ethiopia. He was named Lij Tafari in Amharic, which translates to mean a child of royal birth who is respected or feared (dreaded). Haile Selassie? As a regent in the Ethiopian government, he took on the title […]
Charlotte Maxeke never let the traditional restrictions that overwhelmed her peers in the Cape define her path as she trailblazed to become the first woman of colour to hold a graduate degree in apartheid South Africa. Just how did this woman become one of the greatest icons in South African […]
“I spent four decades of my life thinking how to treat patients with the Ebola virus. So this is the achievement of my life,” Dr Jean-Jacques Muyembe, who with his team of researchers, has discovered a new Ebola treatment that can cure symptoms in just an hour told the BBC. […]
Nana Olomu made millions in the nineteenth century, becoming one of the greatest Africans to have ever achieved such a feat in his time but it is how influential he was in ensuring that he fought against the oppression from the British that makes his story even more historic. Nana […]
Shaka Zulu, chieftain of the Zulu tribe, was described as the “African Napoleon” for his military genius and consolidation of hundreds of South African tribes under the Zulu Empire. Though short-lived, Shaka left quite a legacy following his turbulent and by some accounts, cruel, reign. Who Was Shaka? Shaka, king […]
