Born October 23, 1810, he was one of the first known black
citizens of California and founder of the city now known as San Francisco. He
was born in St. Croix which at the time was part of the Danish Virgin Islands.
He was the…
The capital Libreville was established in 1849 by freed
slaves who opted to go back home when they were set free. Slaves had been taken
as part of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Gabon is a small country in West
Africa right in the heart of…
For over 30 years, Brown Capital Management has been making waves in the Mount Vernon district of Baltimore, Maryland. To date they have assets of over $12 billion accumulated from investing in mostly small and midcap companies. So far this year,…
In 2019, Ghana will have the fastest growing economy in the world. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is expected to grow at 8.8% this year.
Just three decades ago, Ghana was in crisis; impoverished and suffering famine, it was on…
On Sunday morning, black billionaire Robert F. Smith announced to the Moorehouse graduating class of 2019 that he would pay the student loan debt of the entire graduating class.
The gift is worth an estimated $40 million, which will be paid…
The Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is set to launch on
30th May. If every African country joins, it’s expected to be one of
the world’s largest single markets, accounting for $4 trillion in spending and investment across the 54 countries.…
Thabo Mbeki's legacy in education in South Africa is alarming. It’s a known fact of course that the system of apartheid was supposed to keep the African people under. Apartheid was a barbaric system designed to ensure that Africans in South Africa…
After King Sobhuza I died in 1839, he was succeeded by
Mswati I. He quickly transformed it into a centralized monarchy. During the
1880s, Mswati’s lost about half his kingdom to Transvaal Boers. After the Boer
war, the Swazi kingdom was placed under the British…
Before Barack Obama, Shirley Chisholm and Jessie Jackson,
George Edwin Taylor ran for President of the United States in 1904 as the
candidate of the National Negro Liberty Party, sometimes known as the National
Liberty Party.
Political Life
During the period when Taylor emerged…
The Great Verónica I Guterres Kandala Kingwanga, ruled from
1681 to 1721, and consolidated the control of the Guterres dynasty while
creating a lasting precedent for female rulers. Verónica is believed to have
been a pious Christian, but also a fervent believer in Matamba's independence.
In…