Ghana’s Aunty Ocloo Is No Ordinary Google Doodle
A dollar. That’s all Esther Afua Ocloo needed to kickstart Ghana’s first food processing factory in 1942. She was a college student. And she was…
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Poll: Which Of These Dresses Was Most Glamorous At The 2017 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards?
At the 2017 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards, we saw a good amount of statement-making outfits. But which stood out among the rest and made the…
Amazing 26-Year-Old Ghanaian Neurosurgeon Resident Makes History At The Prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital
There is that prevailing bias that science is a white man’s thing as much as the rosary is the Pope’s thing. The pages where the…
Read the public declaration this 21 year old South African made on Twitter
“When I found out at 14 that I was HIV-positive, I didn’t think I would live to see 18, I am turning 22 this…
Cameroonian beats odds to become first African to win Google’s Code Jam
The first African winner in Google’s annual coding competition is 370km (230 miles) from home, sitting outside his cousins’ house in the Cameroonian capital, Yaounde…
Somalia Embraces Change With Election Of New President
ON THE streets of Eastleigh, a suburb of Nairobi that is home to a large part of the city’s Somali population, the celebrations went on…
Cameroon forest defenders take on illegal loggers
In an innovative push to combat illegal logging and the corruption that enables it, community volunteers in Cameroon are being trained to use smartphones to…
Ghana Shows Maturity At The Polls By Peacefully Voting Out Incumbent President
Ghana has once again shown maturity at the polls by peacefully voting out the incumbent President. Ghana’s opposition leader, Nana Akufo-Addo was declared the…
The African Artists On The 2017 Grammy Nomination List
The Grammy nominations are out and on the list are Africans nominated in two categories. South African acappella singing group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo were nominated in the…
Ghana’s Stylista Will Inspire The Way You Dress With This Vlisco Collection
Araba Stephens Akompi is the Ghanaian owner and creative director of the fashion-forward, feminine, and colorful Stylista fashion label. It is no wonder she put…