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 […]
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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 […]
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About 24 young senior high school girls from Ghana are placing their country on the global map with their innovation that transforms banana and plantain stems into paper bags. The girls, from the Methodist Girls High School in Ghana’s Eastern Region, came up with the idea as an alternative to […]
The new 10,000-seat Kigali Arena, which is located next to the 2,500-seat Amahoro National Stadium, is not only a multi-purpose facility for indoor games but is also designed to host meetings, conferences, exhibitions and concerts. The project; a joint venture between the Rwandan government and Turkish Investment Company, Summa; was […]
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 […]
Former Ghanaian Scripps Bee participant, Adom Appiah, has put out his third book titled Kids can Change the World – Young Readers’ Edition Kids can Change the World – Young Readers’ Edition aims to inspire other kids of his age and to urge children to write According to Blacknews.com, the […]
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 […]
