"I am self taught, schooled at 'the University of YouTube' but my father provided the platform." - T. Muriu (Read more...)

In April 2021, the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, nominated Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe to the post of Director of the Office of Science at the US Energy Department. (Read more...)

Thanks to his ability to blend time and culture, street wear and luxury, arts and music, Abloh has transformed the fashion industry. (Read more...)

Tewolde GebreMariam's rise at Ethiopian Airlines began in 1985, when he was a Transportation Agent. (Read more...)

Usain Bolt formerly held the record of the most decorated athlete in history until the stunning victory of Allyson Felix in a 4x400 mixed-gender relay at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. (Read more...)

Ecobank "First Lady" heads the Ecobank Cemac Cluster with jurisdiction over seven countries. (Read more...)

Jesse Owens is the athlete who alone succeeded in 1936 in seizing up the Nazi propaganda machine, by becoming the first black athlete of international renown. (Read more...)

Nnedi coined the term "Africanfuturism" from "Afrofuturism" to showcase Africa’s unique cultural heritage. (Read more...)

Odunsi was all smiles on March, 2021 as her name was sounded as winner of the Global Open Mathematics Tournament. (Read more...)

On Friday, May 20 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron shocked his country men and Elisabeth Borne's administration with the appointment of historian Pap Ndiaye as Minister of Education and Youths in France. (Read more...)

John Nkengasong makes use of all African Union member states' expertise, Africa CDC and World Health Organization (WHO), to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. (Read more...)

Muggsy spent 14 seasons in the golden era of the NBA with incredible performances. His career enabled a paradigm shift from height as the major requirement, to the impact a player can bring to the game. (Read more...)

Bolt is 6 feet and 5 inches (1.96 meters) tall. He has disproved conventional thoughts regarding tall athletes being at a disadvantage when it comes to fast starting. (Read more...)

In 2022, during the African Cup of Nations in Cameroon, the Zimbabwe - Guinea game witnessed Salima Mukansanga hold the ball for the match, while parading into the pitch escorted by three masculine match officials. (Read more...)

In January 2014, Kwizera declared war on the shortage of drinking water by founding the company Water Access Rwanda (WARwanda). (Read more...)

On January 16, 1988, Tina Turner set a record in her performance of the album, "Break Every Rule" at Estadio do Maracana in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as she sold out more than 180,000 tickets to become the artist with the world ticket record for a solo concert in the Guinness Book of Records. (Read more...)

In an era characterised by the prominent Jim Crow laws which segregated blacks from whites and regarded blacks as less humans in the united States, Booker T. Washington diplomatically took the lead to become the voice and dominant leader of the black American community. (Read more...)

Thione Niang, against all odds, succeeded to make his way to the White House after three US Visa refusals. (Read more...)

Greenwood's District of Tulsa also called the Black Wall Street, was the oil capital of the world. African-Americans were entrepreneurs and innovators. They were "bold, visionary and of national renown", in the words of Johnson. (Read more...)

The young African born and raised in Senegal won the Goncourt Prize 2021 with a book co-published by a Senegalese publishing house. (Read more...)