Word of the Day: “The soup does not move round in an elder’s belly.” – Nigerian Proverb.
Today in history in 1948, “University of Ibadan is founded, in Ibadan, British Nigeria. The first degree-awarding institution in Nigeria will have an enrollment of 42,000 students in 2024.” – Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/18-jan
News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 18, 2024).
Continue reading News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 18, 2024).Word of the Day: “To love someone who does not love you is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall..” – Democratic Republic of Congo Proverb.
Today in history in 1961, “Patrice Lumumba, independence leader and first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is assassinated after only 10 months in office; executed by a firing squad of Belgian and Congolese officers who were behind his ouster. The killing sparks international outrage, and brings some unification to DRC by creating the country’s first national martyr.” – Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/17-jan
News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 17, 2024).
Continue reading News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 17, 2024).Word of the Day: “One who has been bitten by a snake lives in fear of worms.” – Nigerian Proverb.
Today in history in 1966, “The Federal Military Government of Nigeria begins its 13-year rule, headed by Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi.” – Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/16-jan
News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 16, 2024).
Continue reading News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 16, 2024).Word of the Day: “Give me a push from my back” does not mean give me a hunchback.” – Nigerian Proverb.
Today in history in 1966, “Nigeria’s first coup d’état ends the First Nigerian Republic. The military responds to a period of civil unrest with the bloody takeover of government. Among those killed is Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa.” – Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/15-jan
News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 15, 2024).
Continue reading News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 15, 2024).Word of the Day: “If you sleep with itching anus, you will definitely wake up with your hands smelling.” –Nigerian Proverb.
Today in history in 1970, “The Nigerian Civil War formally concludes with Biafra’s surrender and the reversal of its 1967 Declaration of Independence.” – Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/14-jan
News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 14, 2024).
Continue reading News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 14, 2024).Word of the Day: “Onye m ga-egbuli m ga rio chineke ka o nyere m aka?
Translation: Regarding the person that I can defeat easily, do I still need to beg God for assistance?.” –Nigerian Proverb.
Today in history in 1931, “Flora Nwapa, Nigerian author and publisher, is born in Oguta, Nigeria. “The mother of modern African literature” was the first African woman to have a novel published in English in Britain. She established a publishing house in Nigeria in 1970 that promoted women authors.” – Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/13-jan
News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 13, 2024).
Continue reading News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 13, 2024).Word of the Day: “Know thyself deathless and able to know all things, all arts, sciences, the way of every life. Become higher than the highest height and lower than the lowest depth. Amass in thyself all senses of animals, fire, water, dryness and moistness. Think of thyself in all places at the same time, earth, sea, sky, not yet born, in the womb, young, old, dead, and in the after death state.” – Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs.
Today in history in BC 3000
“like every day, the clay ovens are being worked to bake bread to feed ancient Egyptians – with the process preserved in wall paintings”. https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/12-jan
News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 12, 2024).
Continue reading News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 12, 2024).Word of the Day: “A man being short does not make him a boy.” –Nigerian Proverb.
Today in history in 1940
“The Nigerian town of Igede-Ekiti hosts the Western Region’s first Westernised White Wedding. The newlyweds are Mr. and Mrs. John Oke Agbede”. https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/11-jan
News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 11, 2024).
Continue reading News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 11, 2024).Word of the Day: “A lobster loves water, but not when he’s being cooked in it.” –Senegalese Proverb.
Today in history in 1910, Alioune Diop, a Senegalese writer and editor was born in Saint-Louis. With Senegal’s President Léopold Sédar Senghor, he organised the historic first World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar in 1966.
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Word of the Day: “Too much discussion means a quarrel.” – Ivorian Proverb.
Today in history in 1964
“The University of Abidjan is founded. In 1996, the largest university of Côte d’Ivoire will be renamed Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, after the country’s first president.”
Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/09-jan
News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 09, 2024).
Continue reading News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 09, 2024).Word of the Day: “You cannot drink medicine on behalf of a sick person.” – South African Proverb.
Today in history in 1908,
“Having successfully passed her licensing exams, South Africa’s Cecilia Makiwane is registered as the first black professional nurse in her country.”
Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/07-jan
News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 08, 2024).
Continue reading News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 08, 2024).
Word of the Day: “You cannot drink medicine on behalf of a sick person.” – South African Proverb.
Today in history in 1908,
“Having successfully passed her licensing exams, South Africa’s Cecilia Makiwane is registered as the first black professional nurse in her country.”
Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/07-jan
News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 07, 2024).
Continue reading News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 07, 2024).Word of the Day: “A ripened fruit does not cling to the vine.” – Zimbabwean Proverb.
Today in history in 2019,
“Zimbabwe is officially Africa’s Number One tobacco producer after final 2018 figures show exports of US$892 million. Government helped production when the Central Bank boosted its farmer aid scheme, the Tobacco Input Finance Facility, from US$28 million in 2017 to US$70 million in 2018.”
Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/06-jan
News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 06, 2024).
Continue reading News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 06, 2024).Word of the Day: “No matter how tall your grandfather is, you have to do your own growing.” – Kenyan Proverb.
Today in history in 1938, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o,
“Kenyan intellectual and writer in print and theatre, was born in Kaminithu, British Kenya. His 1986 book Decolonizing the Mind, is a seminal work on the role of language in Africa’s development and identity. He was imprisoned by order of Kenya’s Vice President Daniel Arap Moi for one year following the production of his 1976 political play “I Will Marry When I Want,” which government shut down because of political content. While in prison he wrote the first novel in the Gĩkũyũ language, Devil on the Cross, using prison toilet paper.”
Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/05-jan
News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 05, 2024).
Continue reading News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 05, 2024).Word of the Day: “Water may cover the footprint on the ground but it does not cover the words of the mouth.” – Nigerian Proverb.
Today in history in 2019,
“Lionheart, the first film directed by Nigerian actress Genevieve Nnaji, who also wrote the script was released. This is the first original production from Nigeria purchased and distributed by the global on-line streaming service Netflix. The film will be chosen as the first submission ever made by Nigeria for consideration by the Academy Awards (Oscars) for the Best International Film category.”
Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/04-jan
News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 04, 2024).
Continue reading News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 04, 2024).Word of the Day: “One single finger cannot pick a louse.” – Liberian Proverb.
Today in history in 1848,
“Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as Liberia’s first president, in Monrovia. Nathaniel Brander is sworn-in as the vice president of the five month-old country.”
Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/31-dec
News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 03, 2024).
Continue reading News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 03, 2024).Word of the Day: “Every monkey is a gazelle in its mother’s eyes.” – Tunisian Proverb.
Today in history in 1909,
Dr. Tewhida Ben Sheikh was born. She was the first Muslim woman to become a physician in North Africa, in Tunisia. She was a pioneer gynecologist who did progressive work in contraception and abortion access. After her long career and life, she died at age 101 in 2010. She became the first woman to appear on Tunisian currency, the 10-dinar note, in 2020.”
Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/31-dec
News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 2, 2024).
Continue reading News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 2, 2024).Word of the Day: “No shortcuts exist to the top of a palm tree.” – African Proverb.
Today in history in 1808,
“Law signed by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, The Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves, goes into effect. Some smuggling of enslaved Africans continues until the U.S. Civil War is fought to end slavery.”
Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/31-dec
News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 1, 2024).
Continue reading News highlights from Africa and beyond (January 1, 2024).Happy New Year to you and Family
Word of the Day: “No one can pass twice between the thighs of an elephant.” – Kenyan Proverb.
Today in history in 1977,
“Kenyan writer and intellectual Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is arrested on orders of Vice President Daniel Arap Moi, and imprisoned for one year for his political play I Will Marry When I Want.”
Source: https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/31-dec
News highlights from Africa and beyond (December 31, 2023).
Continue reading News highlights from Africa and beyond (December 31, 2023).
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