Personality
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Meet world’s first surviving nonuplets from Mali
Considered miracle babies, the world-famous nonuplets (nine babies) from Mali were born on 4 May 2021 and achieved the Guinness…
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Hayford Okine, Croatia-based Ghanaian is world ‘King of Balance’
Croatia-based Ghanaian performer, Hayford Okine holds multiple Guinness World Records for balancing objects. He’s known as the ‘King of Balance’ internationally,…
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10 remarkable black professors and scholars
It’s no doubt that black scholars and professors have also made some significant contributions to academia and society. Their works…
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Lesley Lokko now 1st African woman to win RIBA Royal Gold Medal
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has named Ghanaian-Scottish architect, educator and author Lesley Lokko as the 2024 recipient…
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Ghanaian Chef Failatu completes a record 227 cooking hours
Ghanaian chef Failatu Abdul-Razak appears to have broken the world record after cooking non-stop for more than 227 hours. Her…
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Nigerian Helen Williams holds record for longest handmade wig
Nigerian wigmaker Helen Williams holds the record for world’s longest handmade wig, measuring 351.28 metres (1,152 ft 5 in). Helen spent…
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John C. Robinson, father of Ethiopian Airlines and Tuskegee Airmen
John Charles Robinson, an American pilot, was a pioneer in aviation history. He was pivotal to the historic movement that…
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“Nelson Mandela is Dead” exhibit opens in South Africa
A decade on from the death of Nelson Mandela, an anniversary exhibition entitled “Mandela is Dead” was opened on Friday,…
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Dr. Anim-Mensah gets President Biden Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr. Alexander Anim-Mensah, Ghanaian chemical engineer, educationalist, inventor, author, business strategist and innovation specialist based in the United States (U.S.)…
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Burkina Faso renames boulevard after the heroic Thomas Sankara
Burkina Faso’s transitional government paid tribute on Sunday (Oct. 15) to late pan-Africanist icon and revolutionary president Thomas Isidore Noël…
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