They World says you can’t! But your history says you can! Great personal achievements by Africans of past and present is a constant reminder of our potential as a people more especially to the African Youth
Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Miriam Tlali was born in Doornfontein in Johannesburg, Transvaal (Gauteng). She grew up in Sophiatown.…
Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Dr Benedict Wallet Vilakazi was born on 6 January 1906 in Groutville, Natal. Vilakazi…
Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za The academic and social activist, Ngugi wa Thiong’o is one of the greatest…
On March 18, 1975 Herbert Wiltshire Pfumaindini Chitepo, an African Nationalist and Chairman of the…
Source: http://www.luthervandross.com/ In the world of contemporary music, there are just a handful of superstars whose…
Source: www.sahistory.org.za Synopsis: South African jazz bass guitarist Sipho Gumede was born in Cato Manor,…
Source: www.sahistory.org.za For her excellent contribution to music and putting South Africa on the international…
This is a rare interview which took place just before the assassination of Steve Bantu…
Pemulwuy was a courageous resistance fighter who led a guerrilla war against the British settlement…
Source: www.ninasimone.com She was one of the most extraordinary artists of the twentieth century, an icon…
Source: MySpace.com Bheki Mseleku fused elements of traditional African township music, American bebop, and his…
Guitarist, Songwriter, Singer (1925–2015) “King of the Blues” B.B. King began as a disc jockey…
Source: biography.com Soul singer Percy Sledge recorded the 1966 hit “When a Man Loves a…
Source: Alantablackstar.com Cheick Modibo Diarra Diarra is a Malian-born aerospace engineer who contributed to several…
Source: Atlantablackstar.com Queen Mother Yaa Asantewaa (c. 1840–October 17, 1921) Yaa Asantewaa was the queen…
Source: Blerds.Atlantablackstar.com Benjamin Banneker (Nov. 9, 1731 – Oct. 9, 1806) Banneker was an astronomer,…
Source: Wikipedia.org Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens (also known as Mahlathini Nezintombi Zomgqashiyo – Mahlathini…
Source: Yourblackworld.net/ Thomas Fuller, familiarly known as the Virginia Calculator, was a native of Africa.…
Source: Atlantablackstar.com Robert Shurney (1921-2007) Dr. Robert Shurney was a physicist from Tennessee State University,…
Source: Atlantablackstar.com Dr. Shirley Jackson is an American physicist. She received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973,…