Traditional African kings and queens are pushing for more recognition. What role, if any, do old kingdoms have in a modern continent? For thousands of years before to freedom, Africa was dominated by kings and traditional leaders who possessed immense power. However, they have now been supplanted as head of state across the continent as a result of revolutions, military …

Muammar Gaddafi played a leading role in ensuring that Africa was connected. Africa declined to paying Europe $500 million a year in satellite usage fees. It was Muammar Gaddafi who led the efforts to connect the whole of the African continent together. Making a phone call in Africa used to be unbelievably expensive. Making a call to a caller who is …

A Chinese man was charged with child trafficking on Monday after appearing in a BBC program in which he allegedly filmed Malawian youngsters using racial slurs to make fun of themselves. According to CNN, the individual, known as Lu Ke, came before a magistrate’s court in the country’s capital city of Lilongwe. The Malawi Police Service’s deputy spokesperson, Harry Namwaza, …

Deeply moving, and exposing tensions that still blight Britain today, mixed-race couples from four generations tell their stories ‘MY FATHER THREW ME OUT OF THE HOUSE’: 1940s MARY AND JAKE JACOBS Mary, 81, is married to Jake, 86, and lives in Solihull in the West Midlands. They have no children. Mary is a former deputy head teacher, and Jake worked …

Bessie Coleman enrolled in a prominent flight school in France after discovering that no one in the United States would train her, and she went on to become a daredevil stunt flyer well-known across the world. Bessie Coleman received her pilot’s license in 1921, making her the nation’s first Black woman pilot to be licensed. But Coleman’s trip to the …

At age two, most kids would be playing games or having fun with other kids, but Benjamin Ikenchukwu Keagborekuzi I wasn’t one of them. He had been crowned king or Dein of the Agbor Kingdom, a traditional Nigerian state in Delta State, Nigeria, at that young age. Keagborekuzi I, who was born on June 29, 1977, also established a record …

Due to its stunning 5-star hotels and resorts, gorgeous beaches, and popularity among tourists, Cape Verde is one of the most traveled nations in Africa. Songs, proverbs, common notions, superstitions, and other oral traditions are also well known in the nation. The Batuku song and dance is a well-known oral tradition today. Despite the fact that men might be seen …

The indigenous black-skinned Aeta or Agta people live in the isolated and hilly areas of Luzon, Philippines. The Austronesians, who are people from Southeast Asia, Oceania, and East Africa who speak languages related to the Austronesian language family, include the Aeta. South Africa, Suriname, Mauritius, and some of the Andaman Islands are also home to Austronesians. The term “Negritos,” which …

Chukwuemeka “Emeka” Odumegwu-Ojukwu (November 4, 1933 – November 26, 2011) was a Nigerian military officer, statesman, and politician who led the breakaway Republic of Biafra from 1967 to 1970. He was also the military governor of Nigeria’s Eastern Region in 1966. From 1983 until his passing in 2011 at the age of 78, he was actively involved in politics. Early …

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has agreed to step down on 13 July after protesters stormed his official residence and set the prime minister’s house on fire. On Saturday 9 July, 2022, thousands of protesters stormed presidential palace and video footage showed some of them splashing in the swimming pool, while others sat on a four-poster bed and sofas. The …