The first documented case of diamond discovery in South Africa was near Hopetown in the Cape Colony in 1867. A little while later, there were claims of diamonds discovered at Tati, then at Hartley Hills and other areas occupied by the Shona…
The Johnson Publishing Building in Chicago is a significant landmark in the city. It is also a symbol of African American achievement and entrepreneurship. It was a crowning achievement for the descendent of slaves to build a building that stood in the…
The British Policies that led to the Imprisonment of the Mau Mau Resistors of Colonialism in Kenya.
The Mau Mau Uprising was a rebellion against British colonial rule in Kenya which lasted from 1952 to 1960 and assisted in securing Kenya's independence.…
Martin Luther King Jr. was born 90 years ago, on Jan. 15, 1929.
But the name on his original birth certificate — filed April 12, 1934, five years after King was born — was not Martin. Nor was it Luther. In fact,…
Thirty-four years since the shocking killing of Burkina Faso's then President, Thomas Sankara, 14 men are going on trial, accused of complicity in the murder of one of Africa's heroes, Thomas Sankara.
The charismatic Pan-Africanist was shot dead aged 37 by soldiers…
Juneteenth is now a US federal holiday.
Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. From its Galveston, Texas origin in 1865, the observance of June 19th as the African American Emancipation Day…