Avellon Williams TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO – Born in 1789 at the Gamtoos river in the Eastern Cape, Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman was a woman of great importance. She belonged to the Khoikhoi Gonaqua subgroup, which tended cattle. The majority of Sara’s childhood was spent working on colonial farms where her family members were servants. Her mother died when she was two years […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The first grain shipment from Ukraine to Africa since Russia’s invasion which began more than six months ago has docked in Djibouti, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) confirmed Tuesday. The grain is meant for people in East Africa affected by drought and conflict. Food security experts say it is a drop […]
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Renson Mwakandana Four months after missing the operational debut in the country of the Horn of Africa, Safaricom Ethiopia has started a large-scale customer trial of its network in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia’s second-largest city. The experiment is part of the telco’s progressive city-by-city roll-out before the October nationwide launch in the second-largest city in Ethiopia […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Joao Lourenco, the president of Angola, was elected to a second five-year term on Monday after his MPLA party scored a narrow victory in last week’s fiercely contested election, continuing decades of control in the oil-rich nation. When the results of the election were revealed by the electoral commission it was clear that […]
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Staff writer A Black man watering his neighbor’s flowers was arrested after the Childersburg, Alabama police officers responded to a White neighbor’s call reporting of a suspicious person outside the house. According to NBC News, lawyers for Michael Jennings released the footage of the incident this week, “clearing the way for legal action against the […]
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Lisa Mugo The annual MTV Video Music Awards went down on Sunday night and was hosted by the lovely Nicki Minaj, Jack Harlow and LL Cool J. The anticipated award show went down at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey and saw Taylor Swift take home the most wins this year. This year’s top nominees were: Kendrick […]
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Wayne Lumbasi National park authorities in the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are hoping that a football academy can convince kids to play soccer rather than pick up a gun. A total of 50 boys aged 10 to 16 were chosen to attend the newly established football school in the Virunga national park, […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Following a National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the striking university lecturers at the University of Abuja on Monday, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) extended its six-month-old strike. The strike was started by ASUU on February 14, 2022. The following day, it announced a four-week warning strike. The academics, however, prolonged […]
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“Karyn White live in South Africa tour” takes place as part of celebrating Women’s Month, which is the August month in South Africa 🇿🇦. By Thandisizwe Mgudlwa, Cape Town, SA Karyn White was highly popular during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Question is: Could her South Africa tour be the revival of her career […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu According to the meteorological agency, in reaction to the drought that has led to a major food crisis in the nation this year, the Nigerien government has chosen to utilize chemicals to induce rain. Through the use of an aircraft, chemicals such as a mixture of silver, sodium, and acetone are introduced into […]
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