In the rich tapestry of Ghana’s cultural heritage, one name stands out as a pioneer, a visionary whose lens not only captured moments but also preserved history for generations to come. Felicia Ewuraesi Abban, nee Ansah, holds the esteemed title of Ghana’s first professional female photographer, a trailblazer whose passion for her craft transcended gender barriers and societal expectations. […]
Capturing South Africa’s Apartheid Through the Lens: The Legacy of Ntate Peter Magubane
In the annals of South Africa’s tumultuous history, few individuals have borne witness to its defining moments quite like Ntate Peter Magubane. Renowned as a preeminent photojournalist, Magubane’s lens has not only documented the harrowing realities of apartheid but also intimately captured the spirit of resistance and resilience embodied by Nelson Mandela. With each click of his camera, Magubane […]
Baratang Miya: From Being Rejecting for being Pregnant to Teaching Girls Coding and Empowerment in South Africa
The list of challenges women must have faced during the apartheid season in South Africa would have been endless. It was a double edged sword – facing being owned in a man’s world to being regarded as a second fiddle, if at all – that pierced the women’s core at will. Countless women may have been denied successes just […]
Meet The Tech Geniuses, Surayyah Ahmad and Sanusi Ismalia, Turning Northern Nigeria Into Global Investors Paradise
A detailed look at Nigeria’s regional structures reveals development levels since the colonial days, a cursory study shows the fast rate at which the country is experiencing growth in human and capital resources. It has been described as the Giant of Africa and one of the fastest growing economies of the world at some point. The Northern part of […]
Higher Education, Technology, People: Nigerian Global Shaker, Gossy Nwanwoke Easing the Stress of Gaining Admission into African Universities
Higher education quest in Nigeria has become such as life-impacting phase that many seekers into the institutions of learning jostle for limited spots after writing qualifying exams in their thousands, only for aome to even find out that their choice of study interest is not available at all. This has led many to resign to whatever to study whatever […]
The Colored Artist Inserting Africans’ Reality Into American-European Portraiture Unapologetically: Meet Kehinde Wiley
The realism captured in commissioned patraits is often a reflection of both the artist and the subject, telling stories of various elements, attracting the eyes to details that a 1000 words may not be able to express while proportionately bringing to life details of delights to every one that comes across such potraits. For contemporary artists and art lovers, […]
Samuel Adetunji: Taking Your Cannabis As Medicine, Globally Changing The 4:20 Narrative
Titled multiple names and for many more purposes, cannabis has become one very hot topic on the lips of people from the corner of the street to corridors of power, family table and church pulpit are not left out. It is a very engaging interest. As the world continues to adapt post-Covid, medicinal services and products continue to develop […]
Influencing The Next Generation: Africa’s Chess Master, Tunde Onakoya Pawns To Victory Over 10 International Chess Players
Small places, limited resources, poverty, impossibilities are the antagonistics of many people’s story, often leading many people to choose life’s worst choices and lifestlye but rarely would anyone be prepared for the story of Nigerian chess-life coach who ends his own lifelong dream to ignite the possibilities of both national amd international children living in hard-to-reach regions in the […]
Meet UK’s First Black Female Chef Recipient of the Coveted Michelin Star, Adejoke Bakare
Winning awards has not always been the sole purpose for many international acclaimed chefs if you ask, but the excellence in culinary skills as well as being chef to winning the highly coveted Michelin Star award in 2024, Nigeria’s Adejoke Bakare is putting the national colours on world map of cooking pedigree. Moving to the United Kingdom [UK] after […]
Arthur Robert Ashe Jr.: The Hand That Smashed Color Barrier In World Tennis, Fought Apartheid and Won Grand Slams
On July 10, 1943 Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. was born to parents Arthur Sr. and Mattie C. Ashe in Richmond, Virginia. His interest in and learning of tennis from an early age happened partly because his father got a job at Brook Field in 1947. They lived in a house located on blacks-only 18-acre park with multiple lawn tennis […]