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Africa’s Three Richest Billionaires Hold 40% of Africa’s Wealth – Oxfam Report

A recently released Oxfam report has revealed that the continent's three richest billionaires have more wealth than the poorest 40% - or 650 million people across the continent. The three richest people on the continent according to Forbes 2019 billionaires...

Shorter People Have a Higher Risk of Developing Diabetes Says Study

Shorter people are at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a study published Tuesday. Each additional 10 centimetres in height translates into a 41 percent smaller chance of contracting the disease in men and a 33 percent...

Zimbabwean ex-President Robert Mugabe Dies Aged 95

First Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has died at the age of 95. He had been hospitalised in Singapore where he had been receiving treatment since April. Announcing his death, his successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa eulogised him as an icon of liberation...

High Court in eSwatini Rules in Favor of Married Women, Grants them Equal Rights as their Husbands

A law in eSwatini (Formerly Swaziland) that relegated married women to the legal status of minors under the guardianship of their husbands has been ruled unconstitutional by the kingdom’s High Court. The High Court of eSwatini ruled on Friday (30...

Zimbabwean Scholar ‘Tererai Trent’ Honored With Statue in New York

A Zimbabwean Scholar has been Honored with a Statue in New York City alongside Oprah Winfrey and 8 others. She is the only African woman to have received this honor. Tererai Trent appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show in 2009...

There’s No Such Thing As ‘Gay Gene, Study Funds

A large scientific study into the biological basis of sexual behavior has confirmed there is no single “gay gene” but that a complex mix of genetics and environment affects whether a person has same-sex sexual partners. The research, conducted at...

Lord Lugard And His Impression Of Nigerians And Africans In General

Writing in the book, DUAL MANDATE, on Page 70, some 12years after the amalgamation of Nigeria (1926), this was what Lugard wrote about Nigerians And Africans In General: Page 70 of The Dual Mandate by F. D. Lugard 1926 "In character...

Osun-Osogbo Festival: In Nigeria, Thousands Celebrate Osun, Goddess of Fertility

The Osun Osogbo festival, a traditional celebration that is thought to be 600 years old, is under way in Nigeria's south-western Osun state. The two-week festival is considered to be the biggest annual traditional religious event of the Yoruba people. Every...

The World’s First Illustrated Christian Bible is in Ethiopia, and It Is 800 years Older than the King James Version

The World’s First Illustrated Christian Bible is in Ethiopia, and It Is 800 years Older than the King James Version, and was handwritten in a day. The book, which is kept securely in a bright-blue circular hut at the...

This Man Spent 30 Years On Death Row For A Crime He Didn’t Commit

False ID, a racially biased prosecutor and a constitutionally deficient lawyer sent Anthony Ray Hinton, to Alabama’s death row in 1985. False ID, a racially biased prosecutor and a constitutionally deficient lawyer sent Anthony Ray Hinton, to Alabama’s death row...

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The 1908 Springfield Race Riot That Unleashed Terror on African Americans

In August 1908, Springfield, Illinois, a city hailed as the home of Abraham Lincoln, erupted into a storm of...
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