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  With 173 of 195 countries visited, this Ugandan woman is set to be the first African to travel the world

  Amos Fofung

  CORRECTION: Jessica Nabongo will be the second black woman after Woni Spotts to travel to every country in the world if she achieves her goal. Achieving it will rather make her the first African to do...

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  ‘The Fortunate Slave’: Ayuba Suleiman’s 1733 portrait was the first to humanize a black slave

  Amos Fofung

  Senegalese-born Ayuba Suleiman Diallo is among the few who not only paved a new path for himself during the slave trade period but also ushered in a new era of how slaves and Africans in general, were...

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  South Sudanese journalist beats Aliko Dangote in Fortune magazine’s World’s Greatest Leaders list

  Amos Fofung

  Anna Nimiriano Nunu Siya, Editor-in-Chief of Juba Monitor, a South Sudan based newspaper has been ranked 8th on 50 World’s Greatest Leaders for 2019. The South Sudanese Journalist with more than...

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  It’s all fake news, eSwatini men have not been ordered to marry more wives or face jail term

  Amos Fofung

  King Mswati III of eSwatini has refuted media reports that he ordered men in his kingdom to marry more women, due to scarcity of husbands, or face jail term. The absolute Monarch of eSwatini, a landlocked...

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  After IBM and Google, Microsoft to open new engineering office in Nigeria

  Amos Fofung

  Microsoft has now joined the bandwagon and is making inroads into Africa. A new scramble for Africa as world tech enterprises are in a “mad rush” to invest in the continent’s growing...

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  The Media Got It Wrong: Meet the first black woman to obtain PhD in Aerospace 15 years before Wendy Okolo

  Amos Fofung

  Though we all agree on the fact that Nigerian-born Wendy Okolo’s achievements are praiseworthy and stellar, it turns out that the media has repeatedly overrated her achievements in the domain of...

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