If the discussion is limited to Nigeria’s version of the world’s wonders, it would be unfair to leave out the ancient city of Sungbo’s Eredo. Sungbo’s Eredo is said to be Africa’s largest single pre-colonial monument (or ancient fortification). It is now located in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, and it was built a millennium ago. This ancient city’s construction required more …

Kisembo was killed in 2011 by the Congolese army after he tried to form a rebellion against the national armed forces of the country. There has been confusion in Kinshasa after Democratic Republic of Congo President Félix Tshisekedi named a dead commander to a new role in the ongoing military reforms. A presidential decree read out on national television (RTNC), …

Osborne Hemsley Winfield is regarded as the first African American modern dancer and the founder of “Negro concert dancing.” Winfield, the founder of the New Negro Art Theatre Dance Group, was a Harlem Renaissance dancer who worked alongside Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman. He was born on April 20, 1907 in Yonkers, New York, to general contractor Osborne …

Senegalese TikTok star, Khaby Lame has been announced as the Qatar national Bank’s official FIFA World Cup brand ambassador throughout the tournament. The Qatar National Bank is one of the largest financial institution in the Middle East. Khaby, who has over 150 million followers on Tiktok and over 80 million followers on Instagram will have a “dreaming big” themed television …

The Maasai, or Wamasai in Swahili, are an ethnic group of Nilotic people who live in northern, central, and southern Kenya as well as northern Tanzania. They are well-known around the world because they live near the many game parks of the African Great Lakes and have their own customs and ways of dressing. The Maasai speak the Maa language, …

The Khoisan, a native group in Namibia, may have been the majority of people on Earth for a long time, maybe even for the last 150,000 years. The number of Khoisan people went down around 22,000 years ago and again when European colonialists came to Africa in the 17th century. Geneticists did a new study that was published in Nature …

It is still one of the facts supporting the claim that early humans in Africa two million years ago used fire. Despite being an unintentional discovery, archaeologists say the Wonderwerk Cave has revealed new information about how early humans controlled fire. The layers of soil excavated by Boston University researchers over millions of years revealed that the early men were …

The Kuba Kingdom, also known as the Bakuba Kingdom or Bushongo, is a traditional Central African kingdom. The Kuba Kingdom flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries in the heart of the modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo, bordered by the Sankuru, Lulua, and Kasai rivers. The Kuba Kingdom was a federation of several smaller Bushongo-speaking principalities, as well as …

Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield was born a slave in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1819. She had little reason to dream of the life that would become her own. Because of a series of strange events and her own hard work, she became known as the first African American singer to become famous in both the United States and Europe. Long before she …

Vivienne Malone-Mayes was born on February 10, 1932. She was the fifth African American woman to get a Ph.D. in math. Malone-Mayes was born and raised in Waco, Texas. She graduated from A.J. She was only 16 when she went to Moore High School. Even though she went to a separate high school in Waco, she did well and moved …