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Feminists Got It Wrong: One-Parent Students Leave School Earlier

One of the leading early feminist voices once remarked, “The nuclear family must be destroyed… Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.” Linda Gordon Historian & leading feminist voice. However, a study by researchers at New York…

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Forgotten History: Black Heroes in Science

James McCune Smith James McCune Smith (1813-1865) was the first African American to obtain a medical degree, prominent abolitionist and suffragist, compassionate physician, prolific writer, and public intellectual has been relatively neglected by historians of medicine. A native of New York, Dr.…

Featured West Africa by Editor February 16, 2018

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Glass Production in Nigeria between the 11th and 15th Century AD

Archaeological evidence found at Ile-Ife, Nigeria proves glass was produced in sub-Saharan African centuries before the arrival of Europeans. Glass-making was known to have occurred in southwestern Nigeria but it was previously widely believed that glass imported to Africa by Europeans, possibly…

Featured Society by Editor February 5, 2018

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Who owns the African Union?

The African Union (AU) is the successor of the Organization of African Union (OAU) which was founded on May 25, 1963 for the promotion of the Pan African agenda. The OAU successfully campaigned for and aided in the independence of Africans who…

Featured Life by Editor January 29, 2018

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Chemical and Biological Warfare in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) 1975-1980

After Mozambique became an independent state in 1975, it provided more support for Zimbabwe's black liberation soldiers fighting for black majority rule. As a result, the war between black liberation war soldiers and white government soldiers also intensified. To counter the efforts…

America Featured by Editor January 26, 2018

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How Africans Contribute To The US Economy

A new report from the Partnership for a New American Economy Research Fund details the significant economic contributions to the United States economy made by immigrants from sub-Saharan African nations. The report finds that between 2010 and 2015, the number of African immigrants…

East Africa Featured by Editor January 22, 2018

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Zheng He: The First Chinese in Africa

The narrative that we have heard is that Vasco da Gama was the first person to come to Africa. He may have been the first European but, certainly not the first non African person to come to the continent. Archaeological evidence that…

America Culture Featured by Editor January 16, 2018

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Remembering the Dream- MLK Day

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR- I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in…

Featured Video by Editor January 11, 2018

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Zimbabwe’s Strive Masiyiwa Now a Billionaire

Telecoms tycoon Strive Masiyiwa, 56, is now worth $1.7bn according to Forbes. Masiyiwa controls Econet Group, a Zimbabwe-listed mobile phone company that also has investments in financial services, insurance, e-commerce, renewable energy, education, Coca-Cola bottling, hospitality and payment gateway solutions. Econet also has…

Africans With Global Voices America Business Featured by Editor January 8, 2018

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Remembering Academics We Lost in the Diaspora in 2017

YEWORKA BELACHEW Yeworkwha Belachew, former assistant dean, ombudsperson and founder of the Dialogue Center at Oberlin College, died on June 14 after a long illness. She was 65 years old. Belachew was a native of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She came to the United…