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...
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...
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...
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...
American actor and film producer Samuel L. Jackson has traced his ancestry through Finding Your Roots, an American docu-series that uses traditional genealogical research and genetics to discover the family history of celebrities.
The Hollywood veteran found discovered his roots...
Kenyan authorities are investigating an incident where a container delivering a donation to its Parliament from the Chinese government arrived empty in Nairobi on Tuesday.
The donation of “friendship”, which contained computers and projectors as well as other assorted items,...
Rwanda has closed its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo after a third case of the deadly virus was confirmed in the border city of Goma.
A Rwandan government source revealed on Thursday morning that immigration officials at the...
Exactly 185 years ago (August 1) today in Britain, an act of Parliament came into force abolishing slavery in most British colonies, freeing more than
800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa as well as a small number...
Rwanda has opened the much-anticipated Kigali Arena, one of Africa’s largest indoor stadia that will host major regional and international sports events, including the continent’s biggest basketball meet – the
2021 FIBA Africa Basketball Championships.
The 10,000-seat facility, located next to...
Ethiopians planted more than 353M trees in one day as part of a program fighting deforestation, says a govt official.
It would be a world record - previously held by India for planting 66M trees in a day.
Ethiopia is now...
Anele is a web developer and a Pan-Africanist who believes bad leadership is the only thing keeping Africa from taking its rightful place in the modern world.
