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Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme, GCON(21 October 1932 – 19 November 2017) 🇳🇬 Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme, GCON(21 October 1932 – 19 November 2017) Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme was one of Nigeria’s most accomplished statesmen—an intellectual giant whose influence spanned politics, law, architecture, education, and national development. Born in Oko, Anambra State, he remains a definingContinue reading “Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme, GCON(21 October 1932 – 19 November 2017)”

Who killed Johnson Banjo? In the middle of the civil war in May 1968, Nigeria and Biafra met in Uganda for peace talks. The Nigerian delegation included Johnson Banjo, a 35-year-old typist who would become the main character of a mystery that remains unsolved till today. Here’s what happened, according to DRUM: ▶️ On MayContinue reading “Who killed Johnson Banjo?”

Liberia’s First-Ever Còùp d’étàt (1871) Liberia’s First-Ever Còùp d’étàt (1871) Liberia’s first coup d’étàt occurred in October 1871 and it was directed against President Edward James Roye, the country’s fifth president. What caused it? Roye had secretly negotiated the infamous Loan of 1871 with British financiers. The loan had very harsh terms that èndàngered Liberia’sContinue reading “Liberia’s First-Ever Còùp d’étàt (1871)”

This is peak ignorance and a shocking display of misplaced loyalty. This is peak ignorance and a shocking display of misplaced loyalty. At a time when Nigeria is bleeding from insecurity, poverty, kidnappings, unemployment, and collapsing infrastructure, some individuals chose to occupy Nigerian streets not to demand safety for Nigerians, not to protest hunger, notContinue reading “This is peak ignorance and a shocking display of misplaced loyalty.”

On 27 April 1994, when millions voted in South Africa’s first democratic election, Nyerere’s solidarity bore fruit. When Julius Nyerere committed Tanzania to supporting South Africa’s liberation struggle in the early 1960s, the country was already consolidated as a permanent base for African freedom movements. Tanzania gave the African National Congress land at Mazimbu forContinue reading “On 27 April 1994, when millions voted in South Africa’s first democratic election, Nyerere’s solidarity bore fruit.”

Ezekiel the Rebel: The Slave Who Led an Uprising, K1l.l..ed His Master, and Married the Daughter Ezekiel the Rebel: The Slave Who Led an Uprising, K1l.l..ed His Master, and Married the Daughter In 1856, a plantation in Clark County, Mississippi, simply vanished from all official records. Not burned, not sold, not foreclosed, just erased. AsContinue reading “Ezekiel the Rebel: The Slave Who Led an Uprising, K1l.l..ed His Master, and Married the Daughter”

The Nigeria-Biafra war ended on the 15th of January, 1970. The Nigeria-Biafra war ended on the 15th of January, 1970. The war which began on the 6th of July 1967 because Biafra seceeded from Nigeria as a result of the progroms and killing of Igbo people and Gowon’s inability to keep to the Aburi AccordContinue reading “The Nigeria-Biafra war ended on the 15th of January, 1970.”

BREAKING NEWS:It’s time to END NIGERIA so that people who want development can go ahead.*~ Bishop kukah BREAKING NEWS:It’s time to END NIGERIA so that people who want development can go ahead.*~ Bishop kukah I have never been as unsure of Nigeria future as I am now………BISHOP MATTHEW HASSAN KUKAH After independence, in order toContinue reading “BREAKING NEWS:It’s time to END NIGERIA so that people who want development can go ahead.*~ Bishop kukah”

SOSHANGANA & THE GASA (GAZA) KINGDOM 🇲🇿🇿🇼🇿🇦 SOSHANGANA & THE GASA (GAZA) KINGDOM 🇲🇿🇿🇼🇿🇦 Before colonial borders, southern Africa was shaped by powerful African kingdoms. One of the most influential was the Gasa (Gaza) Kingdom, founded by King Soshangana kaGasa Nxumalo. Soshangana was born around 1780 in present-day KwaNongoma, KwaZulu-Natal, to Zikode kaGasa, a chiefContinue reading “SOSHANGANA & THE GASA (GAZA) KINGDOM”

THE YORUBA GOVERNMENT THAT SENTENCED NNAMDI KANU IN ORDER TO HUMILIATE THE IGBO NATION THE YORUBA GOVERNMENT THAT SENTENCED NNAMDI KANU IN ORDER TO HUMILIATE THE IGBO NATION All the people that played a role in the political conviction of Nnamdi Kanu, in an obvious determination to humiliate the Igbo people are all Yoruba, hereContinue reading “THE YORUBA GOVERNMENT THAT SENTENCED NNAMDI KANU IN ORDER TO HUMILIATE THE IGBO NATION”