The history of science and technology in Africa has received little attention compared to other regions of the world, despite notable developments in various fields. African people have been observing the stars and planets since ancient times. For centuries, Africans have searched the heavens for meaning, order and understanding of their place as a people on...
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South African Airways (SAA) Launches Flights To Victoria Falls And Windhoek Just In Time For The Holidays
South African Airways (SAA) launches new routes this December. Routes to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe; Windhoek, Namibia; and a route to Gqberha, South Africa, from Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport will be in operation starting this month. Flight schedules As of December 8th, 2022, there will be two daily flights to Windhoek, Namibia. The flights will...
Afro Nation Ghana Returns In December With Meek Mill And Other Afrobeats Stars
Afro Nation Ghana is back. After a 3 year hiatus, one of the world’s popular Black music events returns to Africa. It will take place at Marine Drive, Black Star Square in Accra on the 29th & 30th of December 2022. Founded to unite the diaspora to celebrate Black Joy, the event is back for...
Susana Baca: Ambassador of Afro-Peruvian Music and Peru’s First Black Cabinet Minister
Multiple Grammy Award Winner Susana Baca is considered one of the most celebrated political elites in Peru. Ipsos Apoyo poll in 2011 named her as one of the most popular politicians with an approval rating of 62 percent after her appointment as Culture Minister in the Ollanta Humala administration. She is the first public official in...
All the restaurants Stanley Tucci visited in season two of ‘Searching for Italy’
After watching the wanderlust-inducing “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy,” you’ll undoubtedly be hungry.
The Italian village with the ‘elixir’ of healthy life
It’s a place of terraced lemon groves, a paradoxically warm mountain breeze, and a powerful fat-killing gene carried by a few lucky residents.
Virgin Boeing 747 to launch rocket into space
At the far southwestern tip of England, dangling into the Atlantic, the remote region of Cornwall rarely feels like the center of the world.
The hunt for the world’s most elusive shipwrecks
In March 2022, the world let out a collective gasp when the remarkably preserved shipwreck of Ernest Shackleton’s HMS Endurance was discovered almost two miles beneath the icy Antarctic seas.
This man built a plane for his family in his garden
It wasn’t until he moved near to an airfield in the UK over a decade ago that mechanical engineer Ashok Aliseril Thamarakshan began to seriously consider learning to fly a plane.