West Africa

While Black women win every day, it’s not every day they all have a common ancestry. On the African continent, Nigeria is lifting the continent’s name high while proving...

The daughter of a civil servant and a housewife, Fatou Bensouda grew up in the West African city of Banjul, the capital of Gambia. Her father, Omar Gaye...

Nigerian-born Ope Bukola left a career at Google to start her own business. She is the co-founder and CEO of Kibo School, an online university that offers affordable...

Janet Gyimah-Kessie joined a programme in Ghana that promoted the cultivation of cassava in 2002. What started as an acre of cassava has since grown into a cultivation and processing...

When Catherine Krobo Edusei first took her freshly grown herbs to the local supermarket in Accra, the manager didn’t know what they were. Ghana, like many African countries,...

Nigeria’s Toyin Tofade, last Wednesday, became the first black female president of the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (ACPHS) founded in 1881. According to a press...

Kab-Fam Ghana specialises in the retail of electronics and home appliances. The company is currently working on opening its 16th store with a target to increase its market share to...

“I didn’t think it was possible”, Dr Sarpong’s answer to my question about whether he saw himself becoming a resident Neurosurgeon at the prestigious Vanderbilt University Medical Center...

In ensuring that learning how to code becomes much easier and fun, George Jojo Boateng, a Ghanaian computer scientist and social entrepreneur created SuaCode, a smartphone-based coding app. The...

Three students have done the unusual as a final year project. The scholars identified as Aiyegbeni John, Adeyi Stephen and Loiki Charles created a dog that is controlled...