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Feminists Got It Wrong: One-Parent Students Leave School Earlier

One of the leading early feminist voices once remarked, “The nuclear family must be destroyed… Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.” Linda Gordon Historian & leading feminist voice. However, a study by researchers at New York…

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Forgotten History: Black Heroes in Science

James McCune Smith James McCune Smith (1813-1865) was the first African American to obtain a medical degree, prominent abolitionist and suffragist, compassionate physician, prolific writer, and public intellectual has been relatively neglected by historians of medicine. A native of New York, Dr.…

Featured Opinion by Ana Mosioa-Tunya February 19, 2018

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How Population Control Orgs Are Working Against Africa

Africa’s population is expected to grow from 586 million in 1995 to over 1.3 billion by 2025. Africa as a continent has the highest population growth rate in the world. Sixteen out of the twenty cities with the highest rates of urbanization…

Featured West Africa by Editor February 16, 2018

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Glass Production in Nigeria between the 11th and 15th Century AD

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…

Culture Featured Society Video by Ana Mosioa-Tunya February 12, 2018

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Zuma To Leave Power With No Economic Legacy

There is a common saying that you reap what you sow; others say what goes around comes around and for Jacob Zuma it has come full circle. He was a one time at the helm of those spearheading the ouster of then…

Featured Society by Editor February 5, 2018

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Who owns the African Union?

The African Union (AU) is the successor of the Organization of African Union (OAU) which was founded on May 25, 1963 for the promotion of the Pan African agenda. The OAU successfully campaigned for and aided in the independence of Africans who…

Featured Life by Editor January 29, 2018

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Chemical and Biological Warfare in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) 1975-1980

After Mozambique became an independent state in 1975, it provided more support for Zimbabwe's black liberation soldiers fighting for black majority rule. As a result, the war between black liberation war soldiers and white government soldiers also intensified. To counter the efforts…

America Featured by Editor January 26, 2018

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How Africans Contribute To The US Economy

A new report from the Partnership for a New American Economy Research Fund details the significant economic contributions to the United States economy made by immigrants from sub-Saharan African nations. The report finds that between 2010 and 2015, the number of African immigrants…

East Africa Featured by Editor January 22, 2018

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Zheng He: The First Chinese in Africa

The narrative that we have heard is that Vasco da Gama was the first person to come to Africa. He may have been the first European but, certainly not the first non African person to come to the continent. Archaeological evidence that…

Culture Featured West Africa by Samantha Johnas January 16, 2018

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A Brief History of Ivory Coast’s First President Houphouet-Boigny

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…