The 2026 World Cup is over, and the debate that has defined a generation of football is still here. Lionel Messi vs Cristiano Ronaldo. For […]
April 27, 1993, is a date Zambians will never forget. On that day, a Zambian Air Force plane carrying the entire national football team crashed […]
General, Rtd, Moses Ali died on July 18, 2026, at Nakasero Hospital in Kampala at the age of 87. For more than five decades he […]
Reverend G.T. Basden’s Among the Igbos of Nigeria, published in 1921, is one of the most debated books about Igbo history. For some it is […]
July 29, 1966, marks one of the bloodiest turning points in Nigeria’s history. On that day, Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigeria’s Head of State, and […]
December 23, 2001, remains one of the most painful dates in Nigeria’s democratic history. On that night, Chief Bola Ige, the country’s Attorney General and […]
The 2026 FIFA World Cup Final was supposed to be a showcase of the best football on the planet. Instead, it produced a record no […]
At 41, Cristiano Ronaldo has likely closed the book on his World Cup career after five tournaments, hundreds of goals, and more records than most […]
Queen Nzinga Mbande of Ndongo and Matamba remains one of Africa’s most formidable resistance leaders. In the 17th century, at a time when Portuguese colonization […]
February 13, 1976, remains one of the darkest dates in Nigeria’s political history. On that Friday morning, the Head of State, General Murtala Ramat Mohammed, […]
In 1840, the town of Osogbo became the frontline for the survival of Yorubaland. What is remembered as the Battle of Osogbo was not a […]
Across Africa, presidential palaces are more than government offices. They are symbols of history, independence, and national identity. Many were built during colonial times, others […]
Between 1901 and 1902, the British Empire fought a war in southeastern Nigeria that changed Igboland forever. It is called the Anglo-Aro War. Outside of […]
The name Nigeria is barely 110 years old. The nations inside it are not. Before 1914, the area now called the Giant of Africa was […]
For many Christians, the life of Jesus is well known from birth in Bethlehem to ministry in Galilee, crucifixion in Jerusalem, and resurrection. But between […]
Some history claim that ancient China was founded by African people, and that evidence of a Black presence in the Shang, Zhou, and Han dynasties […]
Between 1885 and 1908, the Congo Free State was not a colony of Belgium. It was the personal property of one man, King Leopold II […]
When slavery in the Atlantic is discussed, the story usually ends there. But for more than 1,200 years another trade was moving millions of Africans […]
In the late 1800s, as European powers raced to divide Africa, one kingdom in West Africa refused to become a footnote. That kingdom was Ashanti, […]
When people talk about American slavery, they often focus on ships and cotton fields. A chapter that gets less attention is what happened after 1808, […]
For 42 years Muammar Gaddafi shaped Libya and tried to shape Africa. He came to power in 1969 as a young officer promising to end […]
Most people grow up thinking Africa had no writing before Europeans arrived. Nsibidi proves that wrong. It is an ancient system from southeastern Nigeria and […]
If you have seen pictures online of bare-skinned chickens from Israel and claims about GMO birds laying cancer drugs, you are looking at two different […]
The transatlantic slave trade is usually told as a story of European ships and American plantations. What is rarely taught in detail is what was […]
There was a time when Nigeria was so flush with cash that international institutions came to it for money. It sounds impossible today, but in […]
There is a story told with a simple metaphor. A farmer goes to borrow money to survive a bad season. The lender helps, but the […]
The name Gilbert Chagoury comes up whenever people talk about money, politics, and construction in Nigeria. He is a Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire who built a business […]
When people talk about human origins in the Bible, most start with Adam and Eve. Fewer talk about what comes next, especially Genesis 10, which […]
Nineteen years ago, South Africa and the world lost Lucky Dube, Africa’s most iconic and best-selling reggae artist. He was 43 years old when he […]
Seventeen years ago, the world lost Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop,” in a tragedy that still feels unreal to many fans. He was 50 […]
