In 1939, Nobel prize winner of physics Albert Einstein signed a letter written in conjunction with Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard, which was then sent to the President of the United States Fran...
La tortue a pitié, mais pas de lait (Proverbe Herero – Namibie). The turtle has compassion, but no milk (Herero proverb – Namibia).
https://afrolegends.com/2024/04/25/a-limpossible-nul-nest-tenu-you-cant-expect-the-impossible/
I found this Jacobin article which focuses on Rosa Luxemburg, a Polish Jewish revolutionary activist who exposed Germany’s genocide in what was then German South West Africa. She said, in her e...
Last week, the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) and the British Museum “returned” some artifacts looted from the Ashanti Kingdom in modern-day Ghana, after over 150 years. When one reads the he...
https://afrolegends.com/2024/04/19/uk-museums-long-term-loan-looted-asante-gold-artifacts-to-ghana/
About a month ago, we saw the government of Niger revoke military accords with the United States, and ordering the US withdrawal of its military personnel and drone base from Niger . Among Niger�...
https://afrolegends.com/2024/04/17/the-military-treaty-at-the-heart-of-nigers-breakup-with-the-us/
After almost 2 years of talking, the Zimbabwe gold-backed currency is finally upon us. Inflation is everywhere at the gas pump, at the food store, rent, prices are going up and up, affecting ever...
https://afrolegends.com/2024/04/12/zimbabwe-gold-backed-currency/
Le vent hurle plus fort dans les arbres (Proverbe Kikuyu – Kenya). – Un riche doit payer plus. The wind howls louder in the trees (Kikuyu proverb – Kenya). – A rich person must pay more.
https://afrolegends.com/2024/04/11/proverbe-kikuyu-sur-le-riche-kikuyu-proverb-on-the-wealthy/
A few weeks ago, the son of Africa’s revered writer, Ngugi wa Thiong’o: world acclaimed Kenyan writer, took to X and wrote about his father being an abusive husband, “My father Ngugi wa T...
https://afrolegends.com/2024/04/08/ngugi-wa-thiongo-and-domestic-violence/
“How true! Life’s problems are like trees. We see the trunk, we see the branches and the leaves. But we can’t see the roots, hidden deep down under the ground. And yet it is their shape and...
https://afrolegends.com/2024/04/04/quote-of-problems-by-maryse-conde/
The great Guadeloupean writer, the Grande dame of Caribbean literature, Maryse Condé has transitioned to the land of our ancestors at the age of 90. Condé’s work has touched so many throughou...
https://afrolegends.com/2024/04/02/maryse-conde-the-grande-dame-of-caribbean-literature-is-no-more/