History

Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland in the year 1820 or 1821 (exact date unknown). She was a slave,...

You have probably heard Africa called the “cradle of humanity.” As you might assume given its critical function in human development, there are a...

Perhaps you might have heard about Martin Luther King, Jr. and some of the remarkable things he did whiles he was still alive mostly...

Whiles in Jail, he had an encounter with God through a dream instructing him to burn his fetishes. Kwame Sampson Oppong, also known as...

Meet Kobina Sekyi  After completing his philosophy degree, Sekyi  returned to Gold Coast to teach for sometime and participated in the political affairs. Sekyi became a...

It is uncommon to hear most people ignorantly claiming blacks or Africans lacked wisdom in science and technology until the Arabs and Europeans came...

It would take an entire book (or several books) to describe all the great and famous people of Africa. Below you will see a...

Grace Ogot, a celebrated Kenyan writer of ethnic Luo origin, accomplished midwife, tutor, journalist, and a BBC Overseas Service broadcaster and the first woman...

Breffu was an Akwamu leader of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John (then known as St. Jan) in Danish West Indies. She committed...

History records it that Nana Yaa Asantewaa was born on 17th October 1840 and died on the same birth month, 17th October 19210. She...