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These modern-day medicine men are using mystical powers to defy western treatments
Medicine men and women in Africa make several claims of having superpowers and healing many health ailments. From impotency, gaining success and luck to more complex issues such as cancer, challenges with...
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Madison Washington: The real life Django who escaped slavery twice during the 1800s
Madison Washington was an enslaved cook who escaped from slavery not once, but twice. He led the Creole slave revolt in which 18 black slaves overtook the slave ship, the Creole in November 1841. The uprising...
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Four ways to know if you’re settling for less than you deserve in romantic relationship
At the beginning of a romantic union, we’re told to steer away from controversial topics, avoid showing our less than stellar traits and to be on “our best behavior.” Nevertheless, this...
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This former Nigerian slave became the first to translate the Bible into Yoruba and publish a Yoruba dictionary in 1843
In the 1840s, Samuel Ajayi Crowther formulated the first Yoruba dictionary, a grammar book, a vocabulary book which included proverbs along with transcribing the Bible into the Yoruba language. He...
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From trash to cash: 5 ways Africans flipped garbage into innovative businesses
Africans have been at the forefront of many inventions and modifications that have advanced humankind. Being the cradle of civilization meant going without the luxuries and comfort of modern advances,...
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Deny it all you want but the Australian cartoon of Serena Williams is racist
Australian cartoonist Mark Knight has come under fire for drawing a stereotypical racist cartoon of tennis icon Serena Williams. The cartoon, first published by the Herald Sun has now gone viral with...
