The “Igbo Landing” story of 1803: In May 1803, around 75 Igbo slaves who were being transported by sea revolted by capsizing their ship and drowned themselves while singing in Igbo, a song that translates to “the water spirit brought us. The water spirit will take us home”. (Mmụọ mmiri du anyi bịa, mmụọ mmiri ga-edu anyi laa).

History They Didn’t Teach You In School

Scholars have left him out of the history books, and Hollywood couldn’t be bothered to acknowledge his existence either. He was Howard Hughes’ top engineer and lifelong best friend. This is about Frank Mann, the hidden genius behind much of Howard Hughes’ success in the world of aviation and mecha…Read More

Just hoping tomorrow will be great without doing anything that can make tomorrow great is deceptive.

History of Cyprian Ekwensi.

Full name: Cyprian Odiatu Duaka Ekwensi, (born Sept. 26, 1921, Minna, Nigeria—died Nov. 4, 2007, from Anambra State.

Igbo novelist, short-story writer, and children’s author whose strength lies in his realistic depiction of the forces that have shaped the African city dweller.

Ekwensi was educated at Ibadan (Ni…Read More

This is a Portrait of Samburu woman from Kenya♥️♥️♥️

Meet Dr Wendy Okolo — The First Black Woman To Obtained A PhD In Aerospace Engineering From The University of Texas

Dr Wendy Okolo is an award-winning Nigerian Aerospace Engineer and a STEM advocate. Born and raised in Nigeria, Dr Okolo attended St Mary’s Primary School and Queen’s College in Lagos before moving to the United States to conti…Read More

It’s been 28 years since an African player won the Ballon d’or award. George Weah, a Liberian, who is now the current President of Liberia last won the prestigious Ballon d’or award in 1995. He became the first and only African to win the award.

The Yoruba language 🇳🇬 is the most widely-spoken African language outside Africa, Yoruba is spoken in Brazil, Caribbean, Cuba …

10 facts About Tanzania 🇹🇿

1)- Tanzania is a country located in East Africa, bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south.

2)-The country’s official name is the United Republic of Tanzania, and its capital city is Dodoma,…Read More

For most of its history, the Kushite Empire stretched from the beginning of the Hapi (Nile) in Uganda to Aswan. The Kushites are the most influential civilization in history, having invented complex government over large territories, writing, pyramids, stone columns, the arch and the world’s first university. Many of these things we attribute to…Read More

“When you are praised by the colonizer, it means that you are bad for your people. When they say you are bad, it means that you are good for your people. The day they say I’m good that will mean I betrayed you.”

~ Ahmed Sékou Toure, former president of Guinea.

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