Mugabe says South Africa, Nigeria ‘betrayed Africa over Gaddafi’
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe blasted South Africa and Nigeria at the African Union summit this weekend, saying Africa would never agree to them getting permanent seats on the UN Security Council. This was because they had both voted for UN Security Council Resolution 1973 in 2011, which authorised military action against the regime of Libyan […]
Zambia Ritual Killings Cause of Concern
Barely two weeks after the shocking murder of an albino woman in Lundazi, another teenage girl of Kapiri Mposhi has been brutally murdered in yet another unnerving sequel of suspected random ritual killings. The body of the girl was found naked with her tongue and both breasts ripped off. Enough is enough. We would love […]
African man displayed in a zoo
What happened to Oto Benga? The Congolese man who was put on display in a New York zoo alongside an orangutan as the “missing link” between man and ape. Find out more from Pamela Newkirk, author of Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga. Read full story here. Please follow and like us:
Singing against sexist poverty
Leading female musicians from across Africa performed in the South African city of Cape Town this morning at the World Economic Forum on Africa. They have come together as part of the “Poverty is Sexist” campaign, to put women and girls at the centre of the global drive to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030. Here’s […]
Ten Suprising Advantages of Genetic Mutations & Evolutionary Traits Found in Africa
AFRICANS are more genetically diverse than the rest of the world combined. Modern humans evolved in Africa about 200,000 years ago, and began moving out of the continent into Eurasia and beyond about 60,000 years ago. Referred to as the “Out of Africa theory”, migration is understood to have happened by the movement of small […]
Strip Pastor at it Again – Gospel of Nakedness: Video
Prophet Penuel Mnguni of the End Times Disciples Ministries in Soshanguve extension 13, in Tshwane, South Africa, who made his female congregants strip during church service, is in the news again. This time, he is seen stomping on one of his disciples claiming it is a healing method. The 24-year-old pastor says his church is […]
Zambian Breweries Rewards Castle Lager distributors with a trip to see FC Barcelona play
SIX Zambia-based Castle Lager distributors were on their way to Spain this week to witness FC Barcelona crowned Spanish La Liga champions.The five-day all-inclusive trip-of-a-lifetime was Zambian Breweries’ way of rewarding their top-selling Castle lager distributors for the highest beer volume sales in the country from January to March this year. The competition is run […]
Baby Mahama Cries Out to the Leaders of Africa
ANALYSIS By Kenneth Agutamba She was so tiny and frail with skin so delicate it could have melted in the scotching sun rays of the afternoon; the nape of her neck had several tiny boils ripe to bust and they must have been hurting for she was crying in a painful little voice; a cry […]
What South African xenophobia, Ebola, and Nairobi flooding have in common
Making cities work is a much tougher job than cutting through bush to build a road, and reviving a tourism industry is not like growing maize IN the last seven days, three stories have emerged out of Africa, and though at first glance they seem unrelated, they hint to a changing Africa, and why it […]
Violence escalates in South Africa…(Viewer discretion is advised)
Johannesburg-South African police fired rubber bullets Friday to disperse crowds setting immigrant businesses ablaze as attacks against foreigners spread to Johannesburg.Chanting and singing, machete-armed residents burned down shops owned by foreigners, including a Nigerian dealership in the nation’s largest city. Immigrants carrying bricks accused police of not doing enough to protect them as businesses smoldered. […]
