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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The most fascinating stories covered by Global Black History in 2017. They include Thomas Sankara, unrest in Togo, the sale of African migrants in Libya, Macron's visit to Africa, the land issue in Laikipia, Kenya and the end of Robert Mugabe's rule…
Twenty-three years after independence, it is telling that the ANC’s new President Cyril Ramaphosa is believed to be the second wealthiest black person in South Africa. His wealth is estimated to be just $700 million, while South Africa’s 14 richest (mostly white)…
This was the most sought out invitations on the Washington DC social scene of 2017; the wedding of Ethiopian Prince Yoel Makonnen to his American girlfriend Ariana. The theme of the wedding was “Old World Aristocracy meets New World Charm”. Prince Yoel…
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Now that all African countries are independent from European colonial rule, western countries have decided to wage another battle: war on African families and economic development by promoting western style feminism and NGOs bent on socially engineering us into more poverty. No…