The arms of the law can have a broader reach if individuals step out of their comfort zone to assist law enforcement. But how many of us can do this? Which of us will readily stake their lives as protective hedges around the tendrils of the law, making sure order blooms in our societies? While many may fear for their safety and do nothing in the face of adversity, there are some who are not afraid to confront criminals in real-time, in spite of the risk it presents. Meet brave and fearless Alpha Balde, a father of eight from Guinea…
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It is quite sad that in our world today, religion has been largely polarized across lines of extremism. The drowning volumes of bloodshed over religion have almost flushed the sanctity of religion away; horrors committed on the gloves of religious radicalism. It is that bad that we have almost forgotten the basic essence of religion: connection with very existence, synchronization with the fundamental love for humanity. Islam has been worse hit. Having been so sprayed with the odor of violence, people now readily see Islam as foul and would add more level of vigilance when in the company of a…
There are African children whose parents reject their heritage and try really hard to abandon the very essence of what makes them African; their clothes, their food, their culture and even their beautiful black skin, which some perceive as a pigmented disability. Not Madonna. The famous pop singer sent social media buzzing when she posted a picture on Instagram of her handsome 11 year old adopted Malawian son, David Banda, standing beside a photo of his biological parents donning his traditional robes. She commented on the photo: “Be Proud of who you are and where you come from!!” ALSO READ: Madonna Launches $60,000 Malawi Fundraiser To…
The neck bent in shame today may be the enviable neck that a medal will be dangling from tomorrow. Sometimes failure just has to sit in the cockpit as a copilot in your flight to success. Hence giving up in life may be as ridiculous as attempting to get Trump to kiss Hilary Clinton! Such was the inspiring story of Tarek Abdel Salam an Egyptian wrestler of just 23 years. His story took an early ugly preface when Tarek Abdel Salam was injured while in sporting service with the Egyptian Wrestling Federation. ALSO READ: 10 African Players That Won UEFA…
Once upon a time, there was a cartoon of a man who used a rocket strapped to his back to fly. This inspired Ghanaian technology entrepreneur Regina Honu to make a rocket for herself. When she presented her creation to a teacher, he told her, “Girls don’t build rockets.” ALSO READ: Nigerian Author Chigozie Obioma Wins Top German Literary Award Regina Honu is now the founder of a Ghanaian software development company. However, she advocates for girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Consequently, she received the Buffett Institute for Global Studies’ award for emerging global leaders Tuesday in Scott…
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 broke. So she used the money, a gift from her aunt, to buy some oranges, sugar, firewood, and jam jars. She produced 12 pots of marmalade. And Nkulenu Industries was born. She sold the jam to her classmates, then the school, then the country, then the world. ALSO READ: Zimbabwean Woman Gets Life-Size Statue In New York. Here Is Why Esther Afua Ocloo, the star of today’s Google Doodle, was more than a jam star. She…
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 loudest statement? The choice is up to you. ALSO READ: 11-Year-Old Nigerian Hyper-Realistic Artist Bags International Award [socialpoll id=”2435183″]
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 likes of Isaac Newton, Einstein, and the scientific rest reside in the books of history don’t have many African names written in them. Africa is sadly that malnourished of elite scientists, laboratories are almost deserted that one may be tempted to ask: Is it that the African brain lacks sufficiently sophisticated CPU to carry out terabyte (very heavy) scientific thinking? Well, we have a resounding “No” in the achievements of the 26-year-old Ghanaian Nancy Abu-Bonsrah…
“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 year.” Since tweeting those words, over 8 thousand people have re-shared her hopeful message, with many praising her courage for speaking publicly about her own experience with the virus. In an interview with BBC, the 21-year-old said, ALSO READ: South Africa Makes Ambitious Plans To End Mother-To-Child HIV Transmission “When I was younger, I was so scared of how people would perceive me. “But now I’ve grown and people’s opinions really don’t phase me. I think…
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 because the government has cut off his hometown from the internet. As chickens crow in the background, 17-year-old Nji Collins Gbah tells the BBC about the series of complex technical tasks he completed for Google between November and mid-January. ALSO READ: Google launches free Wi-Fi hotspots in Nigeria Nji had thrown himself into the contest, using knowledge gained from two years of learning how to code, mainly from online sources and books, as well as other…