By Maina wa Njuguna This week, The Netherlands (Dutch) 🇳🇱 Prime Minister Mark Rutte offered an apology to descendants of African Slaves that saw over 600,000 men, women and children ripped from the continent and shipped like cattle across the globe by Dutch slave traders among others. Rutte apologized “for the actions of the Dutch […]
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Maina wa Njuguna The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) 🔭 was launched late last year Dec 25, 2021, a project led by the United States of America 🇺🇸 through NASA and 13 other countries namely – Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The $10 billion […]
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Maina wa Njuguna Meet Babatope (Tope) Awotona, one of the richest immigrants from Nigeria 🇳🇬 in the USA with a net worth of $1.4 billion according to Forbes. Babatope Awotona is the founder and CEO of Calendly LLC, the modern scheduling platform for high-performing teams and individuals accelerating business forward. He launched Calendly in 2013 […]
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Maina wa Njuguna Henry Ossian Flipper was born a slave on March 21, 1856 in Thomasville, GA. He was the eldest of his five brothers who include Joseph Simeon. His parents – mother was Isabelle Flipper, and his father, Festus Flipper, who was a shoemaker and carriage trimmer, were owned by Ephraim G. Ponder, a […]
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Maina wa Njuguna The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope – NASA’s largest and most powerful space science telescope – will probe the cosmos to uncover the history of the universe from the Big Bang to alien planet formation and beyond. NASA This powerful telescope is an infrared space observatory that launched on Dec […]
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By Maina wa Njuguna Is it time to start deconstructing the Scramble for Africa legacy that was designed to plunder resources, abuse human capital and the destruction of the African cultures for the sole benefits of the colonial imperialists? The partitioning of the continent was haphazard and unbridled. Africa’s development has definitely been hampered by […]
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(Muraya) Maina wa Njuguna The average white family’s net worth stands at about $171,000, a whooping 10 points percent greater than that of a typical black family in the US at $17,150 according to the Brookings as of 2016. Net worth – the value of ownership of financial or non financial assets (cash, savings, owned properties […]
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