Two Benin bronzes were returned to their ancestral home 125 years after British soldiers looted them from West Africa. A colorful ceremony on Saturday February 19, 2022 marked the return of sculptures, one of a cockerel and the other the head of a king, to the Oba palace in Benin City in Nigeria. “They are […]
Monthly Archives: February 2022
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The Department of Social Welfare and Community Development, in collaboration with Ghana Education Service (Girl – Child Education Unit) with support from UNICEF-Ghana under the Integrated Social Services (ISS) delivery program worked together in sensitizing ten (10) communities/schools on Child Protection Issues in the AJUMAKO-ENYAN-ESSIAM DISTRICT. The objective of the program is to empower children […]
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Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Mbacke was adept in Sufi Mysticism and used it successfully to resist French imperialism in Senegal. Sufi mystics followed a pious form of Islam and believed that a direct, personal experience of God could be achieved through meditation. … Sufism has come to mean those who are interested in finding a way […]
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For nearly one million years, Egypt’s early pharaohs presided over a prosperous and wealthy state that built countless temples and palaces, enormous public works, and the famous Giza pyramids. The Nile Valley was first inhabited in the Lower Paleolithic Period around ( 300,000 B.C.–90,000 B.C.). Neolithic people continued to create stone tools, and exploit domesticated […]
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Alfredo Darrington Bowman (Dr. Sebi) was a Honduran self-proclaimed herbalist healer, who also practiced in the United States for a period in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Bowman claimed to cure all disease with herbs and a plant-based alkaline diet based on various pseudoscientific claims, and denied that HIV caused AIDS. He set […]
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Esther Afua Ocloo launched her entrepreneurial career as a teenager in the 1930s on less than a dollar! In addition to her own business, she taught skills to other women and co-founded Women’s World Banking (WWB), a global micro-lending organisation. On its website, the WWB microlending network says it lends to 16,4 million women around […]
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Archbishop Benson Idahosa of blessed memory had four children, three girls and a boy (Faith Emmanuel Benson Idahosa II) with his wife Mrs Margaret Idahosa. The now 50 year old Bishop Faith Emmanuel Benson Idahosa II, popularly known as Bishop FEB is a prominent man of God, exceptional professional and reputable entrepreneur who leads an […]