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11 ways to build your mental fortitude, your future self will thank you for it
Today marks World Mental Health Day – a day observed to spread mental health education, awareness, and to advocate against stigmatization. The whole month of October is also dedicated to mental...
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Meet Africa’s first photojournalist who practiced in Ghana from the 1950s and is still exhibiting globally
Credited as “being to Ghana and photojournalism what Ousmane Sembène was to Senegal and African cinema,” James Barnor is a Ghanaian photographer who is also hailed as being the West...
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5 African women who deserve global celebration for fighting oppression way before the 1900s
We often celebrate high-profile figures such as Michelle Obama, Oprah, Kamala Harris and Angela Rye and that is all good and well. Nevertheless, we sometimes forget how the strong and seemingly fearless...
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After topping African charts, this Nigerian superstar gets a day in his honor in the U.S.
Imagine getting a multi-record deal with RCA, becoming the first Afro-beat artist to be included in the Guinness World Records for featuring on an internationally recognized track with Drake, being the...
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The love story of two Haitian revolutionaries who were killed together by the French in 1802
Sanité Bélair and Charles Bélair died defiantly and bravely on October 5, 1802. Sanité was scheduled to be executed by decapitation while Charles was to die by way of a firing...
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How 250 members of a Kenyan tribe set up a flourishing community in Paraguay in 1820
Africans have strategically and skillfully made their mark in most corners of the world. Among these Africans is the Kamba community from Kenya. In 1820, an exiled general from Uruguay named Jose Gervasio...
