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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...

British Trophy-hunters Legally Killed 500 African Monkeys and Baboons in 30 Years, Report

In what has been described as a “silent extinction”, giraffe numbers have fallen by up to 40 per cent over the last 30 years due to threats including trade in their parts, as well as habitat loss, illegal hunting...

16 African Countries Agree to Adopt Kiswahili as a Formal Language

16 southern African countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have agreed to adopt Kiswahili as a formal language in the region. ‘‘I am appealing to your excellencies to fast track the adoption of Kiswahili to be among the...

South Africa: Black African Foreign Owned Shops Looted in Soweto

Black African foreign-owned shops were targeted in Soweto Wednesday evening as some residents went on a looting spree. A night of violence and intimidation erupted in Soweto, Johannesburg on Wednesday night, as dozens of local residents turned on the black...

Ebola Virus is no Longer Incurable, Congo trial Reports Over 90 Percent Success

The ongoing Ebola epidemic in Central Africa is the second worst outbreak of the virus in human history. First appearing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2018, the virus has proved difficult to contain due to continuing...

South African Musician “Lira” Becomes the First African to have a Barbie Doll Made in her Image

South African musician and businesswoman Lerato “Lira” Molapo has coined the term “African Barbie” by becoming the first African to have a Barbie doll made in her image. The ‘Lira doll’ is part of Barbie’s 60th-anniversary campaign to inspire more...

South Africans Named Among Top Alcohol Drinkers Globally – WHO

Data released recently by the World Health Organization shows that South African consumers of alcohol are some of the heaviest drinkers in the world, despite relatively high levels of abstinence in the population. The WHO’s most recent data tracked levels...

West African Slavery Lives on, 400 Years After Transatlantic Trade Began

Blessing was only six years old when her mother arranged for her to become an unpaid housemaid for a family in the Nigerian city of Abuja, on the promise they would put her through school. In her home town in...

Nigerian Appointed First African Member Of World Trade Board

Dr Adesegun Akin-Olugbade, an international legal and finance expert, has been appointed as a member of the World Trade Board. Akin-Olugbade, an international counsel at ǼLEX Law Firm, joins 20 other global trade and finance leaders on the board as...

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The Public Burning of Jesse Washington: One of the Most Horrific Lynching Events in American History

The lynching of Jesse Washington on May 15, 1916, remains one of the most horrific and Well Documented Lynchings...
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