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How Sierra Leone came to have its name
Sierra Leone has the unique history of being the only former British colony in Africa that was actually founded in tune with the British settling emancipated Blacks in the UK and the nascent United States....
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Did you know about Kwame Nkrumah’s secret lover who refused to marry him?
The intimate and personal revelations made of powerful men do not fail to gather an audience, and if said powerful men are as legendary as Kwame Nkrumah, you get the widest and the most committed attention....
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South Sudanese activist accuses gov’t of hiring a hit on him; flees to the US
South Sudanese activist Peter Biar Ajak has accused his country’s government of hiring a hit squad to murder him while he had fled to seek refuge in Kenya. Speaking to the BBC, Ajak said in the weeks...
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Nigerian parents of new quadruplets stranded in Dubai over COVID-19 fears
Tijani Abdulkareem and his wife Suliyah cannot go back to Nigeria after the birth of their quadruplets in Dubai because of restrictions over air travel due to the coronavirus. Since July 1 when the two...
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Did former Ghana president Jerry Rawlings really beat up his veep in a political feud?
Very few living statesmen on the African continent possess the myth-cum-fact biography of Ghana‘s former President Jerry John Rawlings, the country’s longest-serving head of state. For starters,...
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Andrew Mlangeni, icon of anti-apartheid struggle and Rivonia trialist dies at 95
The last surviving anti-apartheid defendant at the famous Rivonia trials in South Africa, Andrew Mlangeni, has died at the age of 95 in a Pretoria hospital, the government has said. Mlangeni had been admitted...
