Tony Allen: Master Drummer of Afrobeat
Tony Oladipo Allen is a Nigerian drummer, composer and songwriter who has been described as “perhaps the greatest drummer who has ever lived.” As drummer...
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Dr. Raphael Armattoe: Renowned Ghanaian doctor who discovered the Abochi drug
Raphael Ernest Grail Armattoe was a renowned Ghanaian doctor, anthropologist, author, poet, and politician. His research into the use of the Abochi drug against human parasites is widely reported...
Dr. Alex Quaison-Sackey: First African President of the General Assembly of the United Nations
Dr. Alex Quaison-Sackey (August 9, 1924– December 28, 1992) was a Ghanaian diplomat during the presidency of Kwame Nkrumah and the first diplomat from a...
William Kamkwamba: “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind!”
William Kamkwamba, born August 5, 1987, is a Malawian inventor and author. William Kamkwamba gained fame in his country when, in 2002, at the age...
Edward Wilmot Blyden: A Voice from Bleeding Africa
“Africa will furnish a development of civilization which the world has never yet witnessed. Its great peculiarity will be its mortal element.” Edward Wilmot Blyden...
Lucky Dube: South Africa’s Best-selling Reggae artist
“Musicians have always educated people through music, you know even though now a days a lot of music just talks about sex, women, and drugs....
Emperor Haile Selassie I: “Might of the Trinity”
“Look to Africa when a Black king shall be crowned, for the day of deliverance is near.” Emperor Haile Selassie I was Ethiopia’s 225th and...
Djibril Diop Mambety: The Prince of Colobane
Djibril Diop Mambéty (January 1945 – July 23, 1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor, composer, and poet, loved and admired by critics and audiences...
Ten Visionary Quotes on African Filmmaking by Djibril Diop Mambety
Djibril Diop Mambety was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer, and poet. Mambety was considered a highly talented and creative filmmaker of exceptional insight...
Ten Powerful Quotes by Haile Selassie
Haile Selassie I (1892–1975), Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, is remembered as a modernising African monarch, a fierce advocate of collective security, and...