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Albino Killings: Malawi Gives Personal Security Alarms to Albinos

Malawi is distributing personal security alarms to people with albinism, – a condition that causes whitening of the skin from lack of pigmentation – in hopes of battling persecution

The alarm sound is activated when the holder pulls a safety in the face of danger. The sound of the alarm can only be heard within a range of about 100 meters.

But there are doubts over the effectiveness of the…

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History of Human Zoos: How ‘Exotic Africans’ Were Displayed in Zoos in the West

During the late 1800s, 19th and early 20th centuries, the shocking display of human beings of various African ethnicities was in vogue in the West, especially in the colonial empires of Great Britain, France, and Germany.

In the era before cinema, these displays – human zoos) allowed westerners to see the foreigners – or as they were popularly called then ‘exotic peoples‘– they’d only heard of…

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The World Richest Black Man Aliko Dangote Ends 2019 $4.3 Billion Richer

Nigerian business mogul Aliko Dangote consolidated his place as the richest black man in the world, according to Bloomberg, after finishing 2019 with $4.3 billion more in wealth.

Dangote’s fortune was boosted by familiar investments in flour, cement and sugar. He is now the world’s 96th richest person.

In the last decade overall, Dangotemade almost $15 billion, according to the Bloomberg report.…

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Nigeria, Sierra Leone Plan Currency Swap

The Chairman, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Committee of Governors of Central Banks, Prof. Kelfala Kallon, has disclosed a plan for currency swap between Nigeria and Sierra Leone.

Kallon, who is presently the Governor, Bank of Sierra Leone, also decried the increasing dollarisation of West African economies and subsequent depreciation of national currencies in the region.

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Code Noir: The Decree that Once Regulated the Life of African Slaves in French Colonies

The Code’s sixty articles regulated the life, death, purchase, religion, and treatment of slaves by their masters in all French colonies.

The Code Noir also known as the Black Code was a decree originally passed by France’s King Louis XIV in 1685. The Code Noir defined the conditions of slaveryin the French colonial empire, restricted the activities of free black slaves, forbade the exercise of…

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Pa Adama Aduku: Nigeria's Oldest Surviving Soldier Dies At 101

Pa Adama Aduku: Nigeria’s Oldest Surviving Soldier Dies At 101

The oldest surviving soldier of the Nigerian Army, Pa Adama Aduku has joined his ancestors at the age of 101.

His death was announced by one of his relations on the WhatsApp platform of the Director Defence Information, Defence Headquarters news platform on January 1, 2020.

According to the post, Pa Aduku died on December 31, 2019.

The old soldier who stole the show at the 2018, Nigerian Army…

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In Pictures: Beautiful Photos From Golibe Festival in Onitsha

Described as the biggest festival east of the Niger, Golibe Festival is an annual festival of the Onitsha arts, music, culture, family and community building which was initiated by the Obi of Onitsha, south east Nigeria, Igwe Alfred Achebe, in 2016.

The Golibe Festival Onitsha targets to leverage the city’s rich cultural heritage to transform Onitsha into a preferred destination for culture,…

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How The World Was Created From A Drop OF Milk: The Creation Story of Doondari

All cultures and religions have their creation stories. One creation story is of the God Doondari who created the world from a drop of milk.

The Fulani are a nomadic group of about 40 million, spread across West Africa’s Sahel region. According to the Fulani, the world was created by a supreme being named Doondari.

Although the creation story of Doondari has been around for generations. It only…

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Michelle Obama Named 'Most Admired' Woman in the World (2019)

Michelle Obama Named ‘Most Admired’ Woman in the World (2019)

Former first lady Michelle Obama has been named the “most admired woman” in the world for the second year in a row.

Michelle Obama was the only woman to rank in double digits, with 10%, according to Gallup. After Obama and Trump who tied for the second position, former talk show host Oprah Winfrey and teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg tied for fourth place on the most admired women…

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Africa's Richest Woman: Isabel Dos Santos in Trouble as Court Orders Seizure of Her Assets

Africa’s Richest Woman: Isabel Dos Santos in Trouble as Court Orders Seizure of Her Assets

An Angolan court has ordered the seizure of the assets and bank accounts of Africa’s richest woman, the billionaire daughter of ex-President José Eduardo dos Santos.

The court ordered the freezing of Ms Dos Santos’ Angolan bank accounts and the seizure of her stake in local companies, including telecoms giant Unitel and bank Fomento de Angola (BFA), the state-owned news agency reported.

The…

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Serena Williams Named Female Athlete of the Decade

Tennis star Serena Williams has been named the Associated Press’ Female Athlete of the Decade by AP sports editors and beat writers.

Serena is the most successful female tennis player ever, having won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, more than anyone else in the sport’s professional era.

According to AP, more than half came between 2010-2019: four at Wimbledon, three apiece at the U.S. Open and…

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Heartbreak Day: Why Slave Families were Terrified of the New Year's Day

Heartbreak Day: Why Slave Families were Terrified of the New Year’s Day

Many people do not know this but new years day was a dreaded one for enslaved people in the United States. The day also birthed the saying “what you do on New Year’s Day you’ll be doin’ all the rest of the year”

Sale of Estates, Pictures and Slaves in the Rotunda, New Orleans; by William Henry Brooke, engraver; engraving with watercolor from The Slave States of America, vol. 1; London: Fisher and…

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Ghana Wants to Join New West African Neighbour's Currency 'Eco' But on one Condition

Ghana Wants to Join New West African Neighbour’s Currency ‘Eco’ But on one Condition

Ghana’s government indicated interest to join a West African currency that will replace the France-backed CFA franc as soon as next year in eight regional countries, but it urged members of the currency union to ditch a planned peg to the euro.

“We, in Ghana, are determined to do whatever we can to enable us join the Member States of UEMOA, soon, in the use of the Eco, as, we believe, it will…

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Lake Natron: The Alkaline Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals into Stone

In a remote part of northern Tanzania in Africa there is a mysterious lake in the eastern branch of Africa’s Great Rift Valley with water that is so caustic that it can burn the skin and eyes of unprepared creatures. Its shores are littered with the calcified corpses of a variety of birds and bats that had met their untimely demise after crashing into the deadly lake.

Lake Natron is a salt lake…

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Here's Why France Kidnapped West Africa’s Eco Currency

Here’s Why France Kidnapped West Africa’s Eco Currency

Last Saturday, France, through the instrumentality of their most faithful poodle in West Africa, Alassane Ouattara, kidnapped the West African currency that was to be launched next year for the 15 countries in the region. In a press conference in Abidjan, Presidents Macron and Ouattara announced that the 8 West African countries using the CFA Franc currency would adopt the Eco as their new…

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Efe Ajagba: Meet the Nigerian Boxer Who Holds the Record For Fastest Victory In Boxing History

Efe Ajagba nicknamed The One and Only is a Nigerian professional boxer. As an amateur, he won a gold medal at the 2015 African Games and bronze at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. As a professional, Ajagba holds the record for the fastest victory in boxing history after his opponent Curtis Harper was disqualified for leaving the ring 1 second after the opening bell.

Boxing career

Ajagba was born on…

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Meet Orompoto, The First and Only Female Alaafin Of Oyo

Orompoto or Orompotoniyun as she’s more commonly referred to was the first woman to become Alaafin of Oyo in the imperial era.

Orompoto assumed the throne because there was no adult male successor within her family at the time.

The Oyo Empire was a Yoruba empire of what is today Benin and North central Nigeria.

Established in the 12th century, the Oyo Empire grew to become the largest Yoruba…

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