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...
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...
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...
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...
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, and was handwritten in a day. The book, which is kept securely in a bright-blue circular hut at the...
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...
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 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...
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...
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