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Meet the first Black woman brewmaster at world’s largest beer company
In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing unrests and protests in many cities across the...
Meet the man who lost it all after laying the foundation for Ghana’s most successful brewery
Joshua Kwabena Siaw, popularly known as J. K. Siaw, was a Ghanaian entrepreneur and industrialist in the 1960s. He established...
How Mali came to have its name
As a result of the glorious place the ancient empire occupies in our understanding of the history of the continent,...
Meet ‘Mama Beijing’, the Tanzanian woman who chaired the historic Beijing conference on women in 1995
The historic fourth UN World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China, in 1995 was chaired by Ms. Gertrude Mongella of...
The first Black pilot to fly for Britain during WWI was Jamaican. After decades, his ID bracelet is up for sale
One of the largest and deadliest conflicts in history is the First World War which was fought between 1914 and...
Sierra Leone’s Bunce Island, where thousands of enslaved Africans were shipped to the Americas
Bunce Island in Sierra Leone, 20 miles up the Sierra Leone River, and a few miles north of the capital...
When Ghana’s finance minister was denied service at a Delaware restaurant because of his skin color
It was on the evening of October 10, 1957, when Komla Gbedemah, the finance minister of the newly formed nation...
Here’s how Italy forced Eritreans and Somalis to fight Italy’s wars for half a century
Scholars of political history note that one of the more insidious aspects of imperialism, as conducted by Westerners or even...
Ganga Zumba, an African royal who escaped slavery and created a kingdom in Brazil
Ganga Zumba is remembered by historians as the warrior, Black hero and freedom fighter who was central to the history...
That time when Ghana, Guinea and Mali tried to become one nation
Although the dream of a United States of Africa has been situated in African intellectual history for nearly 100 years,...
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