Author Archives: Manny Glover

The Cape Coast Castle is a European-built fortress situated in the central region of Ghana in West Africa.Since its initial construction in 1652, the Castle served as a trading hub between European nations and the African locals. Trade was primarily focused on textiles, lumber, and gold until English businessmen started to hunt for huge quantitiesContinue reading “Cape Coast Castle,Ghana,West-Africa”

Scenes from the 2022 edition of Bugum or Fire festival in Ghana. The Bugum or fire festival is celebrated by the people within the Mole-Dagbani kingdom in the Northern part of Ghana, West Africa.It is celebrated on the ninth day of the first month of the traditional Lunar year. This joyous occasion is celebrated inContinue reading “Bugum or Fire festival in Ghana.”

There is growing trend in some African countries where graduates from various institutions who have received knowledge in various aspect boost the human resources capacity and productivity in those countries are into the informal sector or other trading activities for survival.This mostly occur because their system had failed to provide rooms where their childhood dreamsContinue reading “If African Governments are Not Ready to Create More rooms and Ideas to Employ Graduates or Youth,They Can Close down Tertiary Institutions.”

Salif Keta, known as the “Golden Voice of Africa,” is a Malian singer and songwriter who was born on August 25, 1949. He is known for pioneering the Afropop dance music genre through the fusing of elements in a variety of regional African music, particularly Mande music cultures, with jazz, rhythm and blues, and otherContinue reading “What You Need to Know about Salif Keita (The Golden Voice of Africa)”

The Golden Stool literally known as  “Sika Dwa Kofi”(A friday born Golden Stool) in Akan dialect is the royal and divine throne of kings of the Ashanti people in Ghana and the ultimate symbol of power in Ashanti royalty..According to oral history, Okomfo Anokye, High Priest and one of the two main founders of the Asante Confederacy, conjured the stool fromContinue reading “A Short History Behind the Asante Golden Stool.”

Belgium today handed over a tooth to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Patrice Lumumba’s family as the only mortal remains of the assasinated Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. This occurred 60 years after the death of the great statesman and pan Afriacanist. Lumumba, the first prime minister of an independent Democratic Republic ofContinue reading “Belgium hands over “a tooth” of Patrice Lumumba to family and Dr.Congo 60 years after his murder”

Professor Femi Soyinka, former Provost of Obafemi Awolowo University’s College of Health Sciences at Ile-Ife, has died. He was Professor Wole Soyinka’s younger brother and the 1986 Nobel Laureate in Literature. According to a family statement, Mr Soyinka died in the early hours of Tuesday at his home in Kukumada Village, Ibadan, Oyo State, atContinue reading “NIGERIA:Professor Soyinka Dead”

A commercial sex worker, Hannah Saliu, has been beaten to death and her corpse set on fire by her customer and his friends for keeping a copy of the Holy Qur’an in her brothel room. The incident happened in the Alaba Rago area of Ojo, Lagos State.  It was gathered that one of the suspectedContinue reading “Sex Worker killed by Customer and others for Having Qur’an in her Room”

Tanzania🇹🇿 Following a savage police assault on indigineous people against government attempts to evict them from their ancentral home to make room for trophy hunters and conservation, thousands of Maasai people have deserted their homes and fled into the woods. On June 8, dozens of police trucks and an estimated 700 officers gathered in Loliondo,Continue reading “Tanzania:Maasai People Fleeing Ancestral Home after Police Raid.”

Ghana’s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, was buried at his home town of Nkroful, 240 miles (384 kms) southwest of Accra on Sunday 9thJuly,1972. The body of the ex-President, who led Ghana to independence in 1957, laid in state for 10 hours in Accra on ‘saturday. Dr. Nkrumah died in a clinic in Bucharest, RumaniaContinue reading “A Rare Footage of Dr.Kwame Nkrumah’s Burial in His Hometown,Nkroful”