April, 2022

• 8 April

  Untold story of Joseph Laroche, the only black man on RMS Titanic 1912

  

  Many portrayals of the events surrounding the RMS Titanic show only white passengers, leading many to believe there were no persons of color on board. In recent years, the story of the Titanic’s single black passenger and his family has been brought to light as an ignored Titanic fact. Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche was born in 1886 in Haiti. At …

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• 6 April

  Native Black Americans: The African Americans that existed in America before slavery

  

  Black Indians are Native Americans who have strong African American ancestry. They are regarded as Native Americans since they are linked with Native American tribes and are culturally Native Americans. As we widely know that Black people occupied India longtime ago and were the kings there. In similar way they also occupied America. The history of Native Americans and African …

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• 6 April

  Zambia’s President reached eight months since elected without pay, saying it was not his motive to seek public office

  

  The Zambia Ministry of Finance has disclosed that President Hakainde Hichilema has served the last eight months without a paycheck. The ministry says that President Hakainde Hichilema has forgone wages “in his interest to serve the public.” Hichilema said a salary was not his motivation for seeking public office. “The issue of the salary is a non-issue because money was not …

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• 6 April

  Burkina Faso ex-president Campaore gets life sentence for murder of Thomas Sankara

  

  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 …

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• 2 April

  Edward Alexander Bouchet, the first Africa American to earn a PH.D.

  

  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 …

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March, 2022

• 30 March

  Former President of Ghana Nkrumah built all, but didn’t build even a House for Himself

  

  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 …

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• 30 March

  Is the Oscar statuette inspired by an Ancient Egyptian God?

  

  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) director Cedric Gibbons designed a statuette of “a knight standing on a reel of film grasping a crusader’s sword,” according to The Academy. Five spokes appear on the film reel, one for each of The Academy’s five original branches: actors, directors, producers, technicians, and writers. While Gibbons’ original design changed throughout the course of the year, the sword …

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• 26 March

  Untold 10 facts in African History

  

  The name Africa is a phenomenon. Home to 1.216 billion people, the world’s second-largest population and 2nd largest continent after Asia. Below we have highlighted ten things that first appeared or invented by Africans but history chose to forget. 1. Africa was called Alkebulan (mother of mankind). Before today’s name ‘Africa’, our continent was called with different names by our …

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• 18 March

  A widow by choice: Story of a young lady who married late boyfriend

  

  Nyanaleth Majok ( in African dress ) says she had a good dating period with her boyfriend Mayen Deng Lueth who was deaf and one of the great wrestlers in South Sudan, they both had planned to get married. But unfortunately, death robed her boyfriend Mayen when someone for unknown reason murdered him. Some relatives say, Mayen’s killer has been …

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• 16 March

  Kwaku Dua I: 8th King of Ashanti Empire [1797 – 1867]

  

  Kwaku Dua Panin (born Fredua Agyeman; c. 1797 – 27 April 1867) was the Ashanti Empire’s eighth Asantehene from 25 August 1834 until his death on 27 April 1867. From 1818 to 1819, Prince Kwaku Dua fought against the Gyaman, a state 200 kilometers (120 miles) north of Kumasi, and distinguished himself in battle by commanding a division in the …

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