The horrors of war cannot be overemphasized. The hurt it leaves, the trauma, destruction of lives and properties cannot be quantified. It goes beyond the soldiers on the battlefield, or the support team in the control room, to the immediate locals who
The horrors of war cannot be overemphasized. The hurt it leaves, the trauma, destruction of lives and properties cannot be quantified. It goes beyond the soldiers on the battlefield, or the support team in the control room, to the immediate locals who
The period of the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s and the ’90s brings back the image of a time in Africa when democracy was elusive. It bore the grunt of a period when people lived in fear of the unknown, with men in uniform
The death of Queen Elizabeth II a few weeks ago on the 8th of September 2022, may have gathered global attention but in the process, also brought about the reopening of some old wounds, one of which was the colonialism in Africa
Zimbabwe is drowning in international debt as it begins to pay the price for heavily borrowing from China for infrastructure projects at the end of Robert Mugabe’s reign. Chinese financiers are currently funding large infrastructure projects such as the expansion of the
It has been established that Ghana has two highly contagious Marburg Virus cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday. The news comes after two unrelated patients from the southern Ashanti region of Ghana tested positive for the virus and later
While it’s alleged that Adolf Hitler, when he was Chancellor of Germany, introduced the first Concentration Camps in March 1933, it’s not well known how the first time the word “concentration camp” was used; was by the British government in the Anglo
My name is Winnie Linet, I survived Lebanon’s Kafala System. I grew up in a family in west Kenya. I left Kenya for the first time in 2013 to work as a domestic worker in the Kafala system in Lebanon. After I
While it’s alleged that Adolf Hitler, when he was Chancellor of Germany, introduced the first concentration camps in March 1933, it’s not well known how the first time the word “concentration camp” was first used; it was about how the British carried
After the civil war ended in 1865, more lives had been lost than in any other conflict in US history. Formerly enslaved African Americans and some African American freemen, on May 1, 1865, in Charleston, SC, gathered to pay their respects to
Because of her Amazing Gift, Mary Jackson eventually became the first Balck female engineer at NASA. Born in 1921, Jackson spent her young life excelling in mathematics and eventually becoming a math teacher. NASA reveals that Jackson bravely took on many challenges
Harriet Tubman, born Araminta Ross in March 1822, was an African American abolitionist and activist. She was born into slavery in Maryland, where she was mistreated as a child. She had a traumatic head injury when she was a child from an
Nat Turner’s slave revolt. Considered to be one of America’s most successful slave revolts because of the conversations it forced enslavers and America to have, the Nat Turner slave revolt took place in August 1831 in South Hampton County, Virginia, and it
Denmark Vesey’s rebellion of 1822 was very similar to the Gabriel Prosser rebellion of 1800 in the fact that his plan was exposed by two slaves, and it never happened. Denmark Vesey was born in 1767. He was born into slavery but
The tales of colonial resistance are packed with stories of men who led bravely. We read of leaders like Jaja of opobo and Jomo Kenyatta, and the few tales of women like Moremi who fought for the freedom of her people are
This is the final week and final part of our biweekly series that focuses on black men who changed the world with their inventions. Granville woods Holding over 50 patents in the USA, Granville T Woods was a prominent inventor and electrical
Gabriel Prosser Rebellion This revolt, although not executed, was notable for the scale of violence and chaos that could have occurred if it had taken place. Gabriel, born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1776, planned what would have been one of the most
