Society & Culture

Zimbabwean Man Picks Up US$100k At Crash Scene, Returns It to Security Company

A Good Samaritan yesterday retrieved over US$100k and three pistols which he handed over to a security company whose cash-in-transit vehicle had been involved in a fatal accident. Three Safeguard officials were transporting the money when the driver lost control...

Top 20 Most Dangerous Countries in Africa 2019 – Peace Report

South Sudan is the world's 3rd least peaceful country in the world and least peaceful country in the Africa, according to the 2019 edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI). The report, released on Wednesday, "measures the state of peace...

Botswana Scraps Anti-Gay Laws

Botswana's High Court has overturned a law criminalizing consensual same-sex relations. Under section 164 of Botswana's Penal Code, same sex relations was an offense that carried a maximum sentence of seven years' imprisonment. The case was brought to court in...

Kenyan University Beat Harvard to Win Top Moot Court Competition in Geneva

Three law students from Kenya's Strathmore University has become the first African team to win the John H. Jackson Moot Court competition on WTO law that was held in Geneva, Switzerland at the weekend. The Kenyan university was up against...

Ethiopian Woman Sits For Exam Just 30 Minutes After Giving Birth

A 21-year-old Ethiopian woman today took one of her secondary school leaving exams 30 minutes after giving birth, BBC reports. Almaz Derese, who is from Metu in western Ethiopia, had hoped to sit the tests before her child arrived, but...

Africa Tops ‘World’s Most Neglected Displacement Crisis’: NRC Report

Africa contributed seven out of ten countries bedeviled by displacement crisis classed as ‘most neglected’ according to a Norwegian Refugee Council, NRC, report released on Wednesday (June 5.) The top four countries on the list were African: 1. Cameroon 2. The Democratic...

Number Of Brazilians Defining Themselves As Black Increases By 32 Percent In 7 Years

The number of self-declared black persons in Brazil increased by almost 5 million from 2012 to 2018 while the white population continues to decline. In 2018, Brazil had 19.2 million people who declared themselves Black – 4.7 million more...

Malawi’s Presidential Bodyguard Dubbed World’s Scariest [Photo]

Malawian President Peter Mutharika’s security officers have made international headlines as the world’s scariest bodyguards. An officer from the Malawi Police special unit, the Police Mobile Force, who was on duty during Mutharika’s swearing in ceremony at Kamuzu Stadium became...

Some Dangerous Ways African Migrants Illegally Enter Europe [Photos]

Attempting to leave Africa at all cost, Spanish police guards on duty at the border in Beni-Enzar, Morocco arrested four stowaway migrants in less than 3 hours on Saturday, May 24, 2019. Images of the migrants have since flooded...

Nigeria Tops List Of Highest Marijuana Consuming Countries in Africa

According to the just-released report Global Cannabis Report: 2019 Industry Outlook, Nigeria leads Africa in marijuana consumption followed by Ethiopia. The report by New Frontier Data, an analytics company specializing in the cannabis industry, places Nigeria in first place...
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Rev. James Thornwell: The Pastor Who Preached Slavery as God’s Will and Called Abolitionists Enemies of Christianity

Rev. James Henley Thornwell was a prominent 19th-century Presbyterian pastor who believed that slavery was morally right and fully...
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