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Stacey Abrams is what Black History Month is all about
One of the many, many lexical inspirations borrowed by modern English from so-called dead languages is the word “vote”. It comes from the Latin votum which is translated as “vow”...
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History of Black music: How did we come to call that unique genre Jazz?
The artistic inventions of people who have been held in subservience to a supposed master-race for about half a millennium are constantly under question and that should surprise neither students of history...
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Israel has been opened to emigration from Ethiopian Jews but not Ugandan Jews – Why?
Israel’s Interior Ministry has told the country’s Supreme Court that it intends to block the emigration of Ugandan Jews even though the American sponsors of the small East African Jewish community...
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The White Man’s Burden – How a poem for Americans energized European colonization in Africa
When we look back and confront the audacious moralism of Rudyard Kipling’s maxim “the white man’s burden”, we continue to be surprised that the philosophy that propped the exploitation...
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How did we come by the name ‘Africa’? – Is it a foreign import?
Africa‘s primordial role in the inception and sophistication of the human race has been superbly documented for so many decades; sometimes out of genuine anthropological and biological curiosity...
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This Ghanaian ran backward over 100m in a world record that stands after 30 years
There are those who have questioned what sort of human activities can be qualified as a sport, aiming to standardize the physical exertions that can be universally respected as one where all eligible challengers...
