My beloved companion, I write you these words not knowing whether you will receive them, when you will receive them, and whether I will still be alive when you read them. Throughout my struggle for the independence of my country, I have…
Piracy was always a problems for Nollywood filmmakers. There were many 'hustlers' in the diaspora who made their living off pirating movie and keeping all the profits. The business problem that most filmmakers had was distribution and since their core competency is…
Abebe Bikila the first Sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal at the Olympics in 1960 completing the marathon in 2:15:16.2. He went on to win the 1964 Tokyo Olympics as well.
It was Rome 1960; the venue of the Olympics and Italy…
The African Union which declared the decade 2010-2020 the decade of the woman produced a publication in October 2010 "Walking the Talk" and Gender Equality. Now that we have for the first time a Woman as Chair at the African Union there…
Folorunso Alakija is a Nigerian Billionaire who shares the journey of her life on CNN's African Voices. She was born July 15, 1951 and is a Nigerian Billionaire fashion-designer and Executive Director at FAMFA Oil, an indigenous Nigerian oil and gas exploration…
Marcus Garvey is one of the most controversial figures for black people in the diaspora in the 20th Century. Between 1916 and 1921 he built the largest black movement in black history.
Marcus Garvey was born in St Ann's Bay,…
Agricultural Biodiversity: African alternatives to a ‘green revolution’ Andrew Mushita and Carol Thompson Abstract Although the global agricultural crises affect the African continent most adversely, African farmers and scientists offer successful alternatives to industrial monoculture. Andrew Mushita and Carol Thompson argue that…
THE WEALTHIEST BLACK MAN Alhaji Aliko Dangote is the founder of the Dangote Group, which he currently presides over as President and Chief Executive. Dangote is a graduate of Business Studies from the Al-Azahar University, Cairo, Egypt. He started business in…