Motivated by the desire to improve on the health and well-being of Africans, Daniel Shoukimas, Gregory Rockson and James Nishiyama Finucane co-founded mPharma in 2013 in Ghana. (Read more...)

During his passage in Cairo, Musa gave so much gold that though making the residents happy he literally crumbled the city’s economy. (Read more...)

The United States Mint announced a series of coins commemorating American women who are pioneers. Maya Angelou is the first black woman to appear on a coin. (Read more...)

Tuesday, March 15, 2022, Diébédo Francis Kéré became the very first African to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize. (Read more...)

The Human Genome Project, an effort of international research to determine the sequence of the DNA of the human genome, missed out many variables from the genomes of Africans. (Read more...)

Qabale won the first Aster Global Nursing Award among 24,000 nominees, and received a cash prize of $250,000. (Read more...)

Imafidon combats the lack of women in science by focusing on diversity and getting more girls into science career, through Stemettes, the company she co-founded and is CEO of. (Read more...)

Swaniker has made it his life mission to influence leaders in a systematic way, as a means of shaping tomorrow's leaders on the African continent. (Read more...)

Amina of Zaria was a queen and military leader who trespassed all odds to become the most fierce female warrior of her kingdom. (Read more...)

In 2013 when she was only 8 years old, Mabou was able to articulate 8 languages; English, Kreyol, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, Mandarin and Sign Language. (Read more...)

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

In 1927, Barnes was the first Black to receive an official board certification in Otolaryngology. (Read more...)

Colin Powell, the first African American Secretary of State to the United States of America, not only made history but further distinguished himself by occupying the highest ranking position in the U.S. military. (Read more...)

Adichie defines a feminist as “a man or woman who says yes there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better.” (Read more...)

When a justice system gets corrupt, falsifies evidences, administrates bribes and gives fake verdicts on innocent men only to proof a point, one begins to understand how devoid and rutton to the core the system has become. (Read more...)

Cheick Sanou, was a very bulky child who suffered from bullying at a young age and received the nickname "Biby" added to the bullying. (Read more...)

Woods registered close to 60 patents in his lifetime, including a telephone transmitter, a trolley wheel and the multiplex telegraph in which he defeated Thomas Edison's lawsuit. (Read more...)

Oshoala is currently one of the most decorated African female footballer, a record holder of 5 times African Women's Footballer of the Year award. (Read more...)

Nikole argues that the history of the United States does not begin in 1776 with the declaration of independence, but in 1619 with the arrival of the first slaves in Virginia. (Read more...)