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  Muhammad Ali thought Africa was a jungle… until he visited

  Bridget Boakye

  Muhammad Ali, one of the world’s most celebrated sports and civil rights icons, was born on this day in 1942. In celebration with the world on what would have been the heavyweight champion’s...

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  Meet Haitian-Puerto Rican artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, on what would have been his 58th birthday

  Bridget Boakye

  Perhaps you first heard about Jean-Michel Basquiat earlier in 2017 when his painting, Untitled (1982), sold for a record $110.5 million, making his art the most expensive American painting of all time....

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  China: a complex mix of opportunity and pain for African immigrants

  Bridget Boakye

  Like many of you who follow African development projects in the media, I have seen the growing influence of China in my country, Ghana, and the continent at large. My country, like the rest of Africa and...

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  Steve Biko, the forefather of black consciousness who died at 30 while fighting apartheid

  Bridget Boakye

  The South African activist, Bantu Steven Biko, was born on December 18, 1946. Biko was an African nationalist and socialist at the forefront of the anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness...

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  The many reasons to visit Zanzibar City in Zanzibar

  Bridget Boakye

  The #WeTour series on Face2FaceAfrica.com highlights the impeccable sights in Africa. There is an immense diversity of land on the continent, from burgeoning New York-esque cities, well preserved...

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  Way before Columbus, ancient Malians sailed to the Americas in 1311

  Bridget Boakye

  Or so says some historians. Although it is now widely accepted that Columbus did not discover the Americas when he landed in the Caribbean in 1492, as there were Native Americans watching him from the...

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