The long-awaited verdict brings to close a six-month trial of Sankara who was assassinated on October 15, 1987. Former president Compaoré was sentenced to life in prison over Sankara murder on Wenesday. The verdict comes 6 months after the trial of 14 men accused in the assassination of Burkina Faso’s started. A look back at these months of trial. After …

Edward Alexander Bouchet (September 15, 1852 – October 28, 1918) was an American physicist and educator who was the first African American to acquire a Ph.D. from any American university, finishing his physics dissertation at Yale in 1876. He was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society based on his academic achievements. He graduated from Yale College as one of …

Kwame Nkrumah ruled Ghana for 9 years: from 1957 to 1966, under this period he built at least an industry in every region of Ghana, He built several newly Industrial cities across Ghana including the Famous Tema and Akosombo industrial cities. These industrial cities housed several industries and production centres which produced nearly all commodity needs of the economy while …