Nigeria has vowed to use all “legal and diplomatic” means to demand the return of its looted artifacts and cultural materials worldwide, according to Information Minister, Lai Mohammed. This comes on the back of announcement Wednesday by a Cambridge University college that it would return a bronze cockerel statue looted […]
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Rwanda has turned out to be one of the world’s quickest developing economies as it drives the African continent in mechanical progression and infrastructural advancement and now wants to build its own silicon valley in Kigali. The East African country as of late propelled Africa’s first electronic cross-fringe exchange stage […]
The founders of WeBuyBlack and the developers of the first ever Black-owned supermarket that will primarily sell products from Black farmers and other food manufacturers have reached their first financial goal of $425,000 to purchase the property! 13,881 people have contributed to the campaign so far, and the Atlanta-based store […]
Audrey Esi Swatson is Ghana’s youngest commercial female pilot and she is only 22 years old. She was born on February 23, 1997 in Ghana’s capital, Accra. She had her basic education at the University of Ghana Basic School and later at the Ghana Christian International High School. At the […]
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Weeks after launching his ultra-modern $250 million film studio in Atlanta, actor, and director, Tyler Perry has given fans an exclusive behind-the-gates tour of the 330-acre property. The tour which was in conjunction with Architecture Digest was designed to open fans up to the luxury of the property. “Today we […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Determined to live free, Harriet Tubman tried more than once to escape slavery. In 1849, she seized an opportunity. Hiding by day and traveling by night, Tubman stealthily journeyed through her native Maryland, then Delaware and, finally, Pennsylvania. There in Philadelphia — birthplace of American democracy, where the Quaker abolitionist movement thrived, […]
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 1, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The Episcopal church in the Diocese of Washington, D.C., passed a resolution last week to stop using masculine pronouns for God in future updates to its Book of Common Prayer. The resolution to stop using “gendered language for God” was passed quickly by delegates […]
