Dr. Kamau Gachigi heads the University of Nairobi Science & Technology Park, at which over 15 technology businesses are currently incubated. He has been a lecturer in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering since 1999, where he teaches Materials Science. His current areas of…
Makerere University has successfully tested an electronic vehicle, Kiira EV, manufactured by students of the College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology. Makerere Vice Chancellor, Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba described the technological innovation as a historic moment.
The car was assembled by a team of…
Inaugural Speech Pretoria, South Africa
Nelson Mandela (1994)
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 13:37:00 -0400
STATEMENT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS,NELSON MANDELA, AT HIS INAUGURATION AS PRESIDENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA, UNION BUILDINGS, PRETORIA, MAY 10 1994
Your Majesties,…
Joyce Banda, Malawi
Joyce Banda is the President of Malawi. She became the first female head of state of the landlocked country in southeastern Africa. An educator and grassroots women's rights activist, she was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2009 and…
As citizens of the World, we tend to romanticize movies like Titanic and those of the Mayflower and we forget that not everyone on the Mayflower was royalty. 16th and 17th century Britain was a society of classes and to this day the color…
President Barack Obama
Thank you so much.
Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward.
It moves forward because of you. It moves forward because you reaffirmed the…
I remember growing up and seeing images on tv about this place called the "Big Apple" with all its glitz and glamour and praying "Oh Lord please take me to America so I can see for myself what I see on tv…
Walter Rodney was born in Guyana on March 23, 1942. He was assassinated in Guyana on June 13, 1980. His most prolific work, “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” made him both famous and controversial.
Dr. Walter Rodney was a prolific scholar who received a…
THE ROLE OF MISSIONARIES
The legacy of Christian missionaries in Africa lives up to this day. In southern Africa most of the leaders who participated in the fight for independence were educated by missionaries or schools built by missionaries. During colonialism in South…
Prior to the Journal of Negro History there was no body of work that captured the work of black people around the world. The first person to actually value and chronicle the contributions of black people was Dr Woodson Godwin Carter. He…