The name Nigeria is the colonial name given to the country and was coined by the wife of Frederick Lugard, the architect of colonial Nigeria.
Nigeria is the most populous nation in Africa with more than 190 million people made up…
The geographic location of Ghana in West Africa was an ideal location between 1000 and 1500 AD for a territory that possessed a valuable commodity like gold. Gold was a means of exchange and used to measure value. Kings demanded it as…
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…
Present day Ivory Coast is inhabited by the Mande, Kru, Akan, Malinke and Voltaic. France’s claim to present day Ivory Coast was recognized by other European powers in the 1880s and eventually declared it a colony in 1893. In the 1940s, many…
The area now known as Burkina Faso was colonized by the French in the 1890s. In 1932, the French colonial administration divided the colony between Soudan (present day Mali), Niger and Ivory Coast. When the French tried to join the colonies again…
Children in classroom in Togo
For the past 50 years, one family has ruled Togo but with nothing to show. President Faure Gnassingbe, the American educated President is currently presiding over a meagre 4.4BN GDP economy as of 2015. Gross Domestic Product (GDP)…
Nancy Abu-Bonsrah made history in March when she was accepted as the first black female neurosurgeon resident at John Hopkins School of Medicine’s neurological surgery program. The highly selective program accepts just two to five residents, and is ranked second in the country.
"It’s…
“Let’s produce in Africa, manufacture in Africa and consume in Africa”
While at the G-20 Emmanuel Macron said this about Africa:
"The challenge of Africa is completely different, it is much deeper. It is civilization today. Failing states, complex democratic transitions, the demographic transition." He later said, "One of the essential challenges of Africa…
On Friday, July 7, Ghana celebrated the launch of its first satellite into space. The satellite will be used to monitor Ghana's coastline for mapping purposes, and to build capacity in space science and technology. The two year project began in October…