Personality
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Profile: Francis Kéré, first African to win Pritzker Prize, Architecture’s Nobel
Diébédo Francis Kéré, a Burkina Faso-born architect, was given the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honor, on March 15, 2022. In…
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Three Africans Awarded 2022 International Women of Courage Awards (IWOC)
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken hosted the annual International Women of Courage (IWOC) Awards in a virtual ceremony at…
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The Basketball Dream of Qudus Wahab at 15 took him from Nigeria to U.S.
There’s a story to be told about Maryland’s gentle giant. A narrative about how, at the age of 15, he…
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Ellen DeGeneres Opens Gorilla Campus in Rwanda
The Ellen Fund celebrated its fourth anniversary by opening the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund near…
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Miss USA 2019 Dies from Suicide Jump
Cheslie Kryst, the 2019 Miss USA winner, died after jumping from a high-rise Manhattan apartment building. She was 30 years…
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Nigeria: NGO Founder, Okolo Ikechukwu, on Spotlight for his Advocacy Against Teenage Pregnancy
Okolo Ikechukwu always quoted the notion that people of all ages living healthy lives, is one of the United Nations’…
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100 Most Influential Africans 2021
The expected annual list of the 100 Most Influential Africans of 2021, issued by the continent’s top pan-African journal, London-based…
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A Profile on Legendary Sidney Poitier 1927-2022
Sidney Poitier, the Bahamian-American actor who broke countless Hollywood barriers in the 1950s and 1960s, most notably in 1964 when…
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Nigeria: High Profiled King, Olubadan of Ibadan, Dies at 93
Oba Saliu Adetunji, the Olubadan of Ibadan, has died. He was 93 years old when he died. Oba Adetunji died…
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South African Anti-apartheid Archbishop Dead at 90
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who was pivotal in halting South Africa’s apartheid rule, died on Sunday at the age of 90,…
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