Today – 1st October is a day of celebration for us Nigerians. On this day, 56 years ago our people achieved the most important of all human desires – freedom and independence. We should all therefore give thanks and pray for our…
API PALU- ANTI MALARIA DRUG
Api Palu is the brainchild of Dr. Valentin Agon. The medicine is produced by his company, API Benin which has been creating natural medicines for over 25 years.
More than three billion people around the world are at…
Until the end of World War I, Rwanda and Burundi were a part of German East Africa. During the period when they were known as Ruanda-Urundi, the territory was inhabited by three ethnic groups: the Twa, the Hutu and the Tutsi. Historians…
Despite the image many try to sell of Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi), he was a racist. A racist is a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another. Gandhi’s writings prove just that. More recently, his writings have…
During World War II and even the decade following the war, prices of agricultural produce increased and Kenyan settler farmers benefited from the increased prosperity. This period encouraged more settler farmers and Britain encouraged more migration to Kenya. The move to drive…
Early evidence of counting or a form of mathematics was first discovered at the fishing site of Ishango, near Semliki river which flows into Lake Edward in the present day Democratic Republic of Congo. A bone tool with several notches arranged in…
Presently De Beers Group controls diamond trade in most of the world but in Africa; they control trade in South Africa and Botswana directly. Other countries that attempted to sell diamonds through channels other than the ones they control ended up in…
IVAN VAN SERTIMA- THEY CAME BEFORE COLUMBUS: EVIDENCE OF AFRICAN PRESENCE IN THE AMERICAS
Ivan Van Sertima published a very ground breaking book, “They Came Before Columbus” which showed that black people had traveled to the Americas well before Columbus claimed to have…
When diamonds were discovered in Kimberly in the 1860s, it quickly became the diamond capital of the world. However, it also helped to create racial segregation instituted through British rule which established a precedent for apartheid laws of the 1960s.
Legend has it…
In 1979, W. Arthur Lewis became the first black man to win a Nobel Prize in Economics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize, along with Theodore Schultz, for “pioneering research into economic development.” Sir Arthur Lewis was a pioneer in the field…