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 […]
Facebook Turns 20: From Mark Zuckerberg’s Dormitory To A $1 Trillion Company
In the early 2000s, a geeky Harvard student named Mark Zuckerberg changed the world as we know it from the comfort of his dorm room. Armed with his brilliant mind and a knack for coding, Zuckerberg created a social networking platform that would soon become a global sensation. The Birth of “The Facebook” Originally named “The Facebook,” Zuckerberg’s creation […]
Grammy Awards; How Africans Have Overcome Foundational Obstacles and Winning Through the Years. [PT2]
ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO (Benin/France)Best Contemporary World Music Album – 2008Originally from Benin and now living in France, Angélique Kidjo holds the title has Africa’s most decorated GRAMMY winner in history. 2008 saw the first of her five trophies with a Best Contemporary World Music Album for Djin Djin and increased to three more Best World Music Album wins, adding the […]
The Grammy Awards; How Africans Have Overcome Foundational Obstacles and Winning Through the Years. [Pt 1]
MARIAN MAKEBA (South Africa)Best Folk Record (Collaboration with Harry Belafonte) – 1966The first Grammy Awards ceremony took place on May 4, 1959 simultaneously at two venues, the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, and the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City, New York. It took seven years after the inaugural edition for Africa to record her first […]
The Amazing Oprah Winfrey at 70; From Young Talk Show Host to Media Billionaire
Oprah Winfrey is an american media mogul born January 29 1954, with giant strides in the media world celebrates her 70 years in a unique style filled with deep resonation and empowering intonations on the global stage. She has many feathers on her cap which includes talkshow host, movie actor, producer and director. Starting her career as a host […]