Without the participation of a single African representative, European nations came together under the Berlin Conference in 1884 and divided Africa between themselves. Since that day, the language, culture, identity, religion and space that existed as Africa was totally changed. The continent was invaded by imperialists who came bearing arms […]
In September 2018, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo launched the ‘Year of Return, Ghana 2019’ in Washington D.C. In 2000, Ghana’s parliament passed the Immigration Act, further welcoming Africans in the diaspora and providing the “Right of Abode” for any “Person of African descent in the Diaspora” to travel to and […]
Dear black people, no one is coming to save us. It’s all on us. (Stop Waiting On A Savior And Realize You Have The Power To Save Yourself) “The mind is the structure of that electronic plasma we call thought in the brain. Plasma is charged electrons. The structure of […]
Tyler Stallings is an eight-year-old kidpreneur and philanthropist on a mission to alter the scruffy living conditions of America’s veterans. Stallings quest to better the disturbing living conditions of the country’s veterans began when he was four. His mother Andrea Blackstone exposed him to videos and documentaries about veterans when […]
If you’re like most people, you probably have two basic images of Africa. Either you think of something like this: (Why you shouldn’t look at Africa through a western lens?) That represents “the good” Africa: safaris, colorful tribes, and Egypt’s pyramids. It’s the stuff we see on National Geographic. Or […]
There are two countries in Africa that are considered by some scholars to never have been colonized: Liberia and Ethiopia. The truth, however, is much more complex and open to debate. Liberia The sovereign nation of Liberia is often described as never colonized because it was created so recently, in 1847. Liberia was […]
Two types of energies that we possess are negative and positive. Positive energy is terrific as it motivates and inspires us, as well as making us feel happy, alive, and energized. On the flip side, negative energy will make us feel exactly the opposite, unhappy, depressed, even angry. Extreme volumes […]
As the novel coronavirus death toll mounts, it is natural to worry. How far will this virus travel through humanity, and could another such virus arise seemingly from nowhere? (Clue to Stopping Coronavirus: Knowing How Viruses Adapt From Animals to Humans) As microbial ecologists who study the origins of new […]
The study, published in Science Friday, set out to assess how much new forest the earth could support without encroaching on farmland or urban areas and came up with a figure of 0.9 billion hectares, an area roughly the size of the U.S., BBC News reported. That makes reforestation “the […]
Did the African history start with Ancient Egypt? No, the African history did not start with Egypt. The starting point is Kibish, a locality in the south of Ethiopia. It was there that were found the fossils of the oldest modern man. Kibish is therefore the source, the common starting […]
