“Today, these pillars of our organisation are threatened. They risk being broken by the relentless pursuit of individual national priorities rather than the collective needs of the nations that are assembled here today” STATEMENT DELIVERED BY HIS EXCELLENCY, SENATOR KASHIM SHETTIMA, GCON, VICE PRESIDENT, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA DURING THEContinue Reading
2. Cairo, the capital city of Egypt, is one of the largest cities in Africa and the Arab world. 3. Arabic is the official language of Egypt, and Egyptian Arabic is the most widely spoken dialect. 4. Egypt has a population of over 100 million people, making it the mostContinue Reading
The smartest family in England and certainly the world is African and originally from Nigeria. They are very well known in England, but not sufficiently publicized in Africa. In the Imafidon family, there are twins Peter and Paula. They obtained the equivalent of the Baccalaureate at the age of 9Continue Reading
“We can consider very clearly, today, that the Confederation of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) has been born,” Junta-run Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have finalised plans to form a confederation after turning their backs on former colonial ruler France to seek closer ties with Russia. Their foreign ministersContinue Reading
…as International Africa Day holds in Uyo By Ime Silas President of The Pan-African Dialogue Institute (TPADI), Dr. Effiong Joseph Udoh has expressed the Institute’s commitment to promoting the game of golf with a view to encouraging young Africans to create careers out of it. Dr. Udoh who is alsoContinue Reading
On December 26th in the year 1908, an igbo man from Anambra, always with his eriri ozo on his legs, popularly known as Nduka aka Jack Johnson became the first African American World Heavyweight Boxing Champion by knocking out Tommy Burns. For years America would not show this image ofContinue Reading
– The richest person in the history of earth was Mansa Musa from mali( Black ) – The Greatest Pop Musician was Michael Jackson (black) -The greatest jazz singer” The famous Aretha Franklin. (Black) – The greatest footballer was Pele (black) – The Greatest boxer was Muhammed Ali (black) –Continue Reading
1) To prevent the enslaved from eating fruits such as apples, pineapples, oranges, cashews, bananas, plantains and sugarcanes etc while harvesting them, yet they were made to work consistently in all the plantation farms. 2) To stop the enslaved from chanting our African spiritual songs. Not only that those ourContinue Reading
Do You Know Her?This is Mariam Makeba alternatively known as Mama Africa. Born in1932 to Swazi and Xhosa parents in South Africa.She was forced to marriage at 17 years. The marriage turned to be abusive prompting a divorce. Having great vocals, she started singing anti-apartheid songs earning her a globalContinue Reading
As an African, you travel to Israel to pray on a wall. This is called pilgrimage and you automatically earn the title of JP. As an African, you travel to Saudi to pray on a black stone. This is called Hajj and you automatically earn the title of Alhaji. AsContinue Reading
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