Kenya’s Social Media Election
A strikingly toxic campaign ad was unleashed online in Kenya just weeks before national elections -- a potentially explosive move in a country where politics and ethnicity are closely aligned. The...
Tag: Mathematician
Iran Front Pages Mourn Trailblazing Female Mathematician
Iranian media have hailed trailblazing Iran-born mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani following her death from cancer, with her image blazoned across newspaper front pages on Sunday. In some cases...
Maths ‘genius’ Maryam Mirzakhani Dies, Aged 40
Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian-born mathematician who was the first woman to win the coveted Fields Medal, has died in a US hospital after a battle with cancer. She was 40. Mirzakhani' friend Firouz...
France’s Macron Announces Gender Equal List of Political Outsiders
The president-elect had made several conditions for candidates to sign up to (AFP) The party of French President-elect Emmanuel Macron has selected a diverse list of 428 candidates for parliamentary...
Africa Gave Europe It’s Modern Education
Many sources have it that education, be it formal or informal originated from Africa and to be precise, ancient Egypt, location of the oldest civilization in the world. The ancient Egyptians are on...
The ‘Hidden Figures’ Movie and Its Many Lessons About Gender Parity In the World
By Samuel Ayobami Ogunlana From the film 'Hidden Figures' I learned a lot of lessons on gender parity as it relates to societal development and that is why I recommended it, and I still want more...
Key Oscars Moments You May Have Missed Amid Envelope-Gate
Described by breathless commentators as an "epic flub," the best picture mix-up at Sunday's Oscars is being talked up as the most embarrassing moment in the award show's history. As the dust settles...
The Tattletale of 4 Former First Ladies
By: Eric Bawah I don’t want to believe that Madam Lordina Mahama, the immediate First Lady of Ghana ever thought that one day she will also become a former First lady. Do not ask me why because her...
Thousands of Gay Men Pardoned For Past Convictions
Thousands of gay and bisexual men found guilty of decades-old sexual offences in England and Wales have been posthumously pardoned. The enactment by the government of the so-called Alan Turing law...
The Tragedy of Nigeria And Lord Denning’s Analogy
Mr. Peter Ajayi, the man who as the Managing Director employed me into the stable of the Sketch Newspapers in 1988 was the one who introduced me to the seminal brilliance of Alfred Thompson Denning....
Anton Wilhelm Amo, Ghanas Greatest Philosophical Genius 2
“Anton Wilhelm Amo's most devoted researcher and biographer, the East German scholar Burchard Brentjes, writes in his generally excellent 1977 study, “Anton Wilhelm Amo: Der Schwarze Philosoph in...
Anton Wilhelm Amo, Ghanas Greatest Philosophical Genius 1
“Our honored Professor Hollman, while he was still in Wittenberg, conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy on a Negro who proved his great talent both in his writings and in his lectures, and...
An Important Announcement On Ghanas Gold Industry
Gold was discovered, (circa) ca. BC/BCE 6,000 in Egypt (Cramb, Alan W, A Short History of Metals, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University). It was the first and by...