Africa is home to 55 countries, an ancient and complex history, modern cities, some 3,000 languages and over a billion people. From Algeria to Zimbabwe, here’s a snapshot of each country on a continent you need to know more about.
I was introduced by one of my mentors,Marshal Sulayman (who later became the first Nigerian Partner at Deloitte Tax USA)to another young man who had just relocated to Houston, Biola Lawal, and became CFO (and eventually CEO at Erin Energy). In a conversation, Biola mentioned previously worki...
Type 62 in Malian Service Context before 1949 (1937-1945) After the fall of the Empire and Qing dynasty in 1912, the first Chinese Republic was born. Sun Yat-sen was its first president, but he was forced to give way to the former dynasty army general, Yuan Shikai. After the troubled...
Eventually it had to happen: Reality show craze meets music industry. Kickstarted by Simon Fuller in the UK, "Pop Idol" would spawn a host of other entries in the "Idol" franchise, plus other shows like "Popstars: The Rivals" and "X Factor". Ostensibly, the programs existed to give ...
Mansa Musa & The Empire Of Mali by P. James Oliver “You’re writing a book about Mansa Musa? I didn’t know anyone in America knew who he was. He was our Lincoln!” Mansa Musa was an African leader who took Mali from relatively unknown to one of the richest empires in the world...
Eventually, the sound became more feminized, taking cues from the then-ascendant world of U.S. R&B, often adding female vocals and stripping away half of the typical four beats in a measure (hence the name "2-Step," which it soon began to be called). The result maintained the ...
Mansa Musa & The Empire Of Mali by P. James Oliver “You’re writing a book about Mansa Musa? I didn’t know anyone in America knew who he was. He was our Lincoln!” Mansa Musa was an African leader who took Mali from relatively unknown to one of the richest empires in the world...
Eventually, the sound became more feminized, taking cues from the then-ascendant world of U.S. R&B, often adding female vocals and stripping away half of the typical four beats in a measure (hence the name "2-Step," which it soon began to be called). The result maintained the ...
1560s of enslaved and free Africans who arrived in Florida within the colonial empire of Spain, traversing the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean isles from areas such as Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Angola to the ...