In early 1976, while African presidents were busy throwing banquets and pretending to understand the term “non-aligned movement,” Uganda’s F...

The tribalism in us beclouds our reasoning. Not sometimes. I mean all the time. We cannot see the truth. If not, why make an ordinary name c...

Early Life and Education Michael Babatunde Olatunji was born on April 7, 1927, in Ajido, near Badagry in Lagos State, Nigeria. A native of t...

(1). Muhammadu Buhari (Age 82): Former President of Nigeria who served from 2015 to 2023 and previously as a military ruler from 1983 to 198...

Liberia's Minister for Foreign Affairs Charles Cecil Dennis Jr is prepared for execution alongside other cabinet ministers after Samuel ...

Awujale Sikiru Kayode Adetona Ogbagba ll told lies against the traditional stool  in order to destroy it. He was just about 26 when he was i...

As Nigeria continues to mourn the loss of a man celebrated by many as a hero and an icon,someone who spent most of his life serving and figh...

In the 15th century CE, all African nobles in Europe were fighting for survival. The Papacy in Rome had declared a Papal bull (Romanus ponti...

Ofege was a Nigerian teenage band that emerged in the early 1970s, born out of the corridors of St. Gregory’s College, Lagos. The group was ...

The history of the Oroko people in Cameroon. A summary from Knutson and Valdeau's accounts. The Oroko people are the indigenous occupa...

Kente cloth is historically associated with the Asante Empire (also spelled Ashanti), a political state that began in the late 17th century ...

Born into slavery in Georgia in 1849, Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins came into the world under the shadow of bondage, blindness, and silence. He...

Definition: • Ugbo means farm, while Okho-Ugbo (also called Okhogbo) refers to the hut or shelter erected in the middle of the farmland. Cul...

A great Southern merchant and a War lord Nana Olomu (also spelled Olumu)( (1840-1916) was an Itsekiri chief, Palm Oil Super Magnate, nationa...

Just like European explorers claimed to have  discovered Africa while people were already living there, the watcher, has now discovered plac...

Ingeenyii kototeen kiichilile — or as others say, Ingeenyii keny kemwoge tapan Translation: Pulling the bowstring for too long misses the ta...

Eldoret is a city in the Rift Valley region of Kenya. It serves as the capital of Uasin Gishu County. Located in western Kenya, and lying so...

The Hadzabe (also known as Hadza) are a nomadic hunter-gatherer tribe that has resided in Northern Tanzania, specifically in the Great Rift ...

At Cashiff House of Ideas, it is our tradition to honour both living and late legends whose songs remain evergreen — voices that shaped our ...

“The traces of our black ancestry are visibly existent in a hundred surnames. The legends and the history of the Scottish Highlands are both...