7 black women we are celebrating this week

Nduta Waweru considers herself a reader who writes. Like a duck, she’s calm on the surface, but she’s always busy paddling underneath to get you the best stories in arts, culture and current affairs. Nduta has published a poetry collection called Nostalgia, is a YALI Fellow and a member of Wandata-Ke Network.

• Five African queens you did not know existed
• These African products are in great demand overseas than in Africa
• The little known Sudanese-Egyptian Pan-Africanist who mentored Marcus Garvey
• These African countries have banned or restricted the use of plastic bags

• This legendary boxer was convicted of accompanying white woman across state lines in 1913
• Five prolific African first children nurtured by their fathers to be presidents
• 11 interesting facts about black soldiers who served in the American army since 1775
• Meet Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and great-grandson of a Cameroonian chief