24 yr old Uwa Osamede Imafidon. First Class Degree in Crop Science from University of Benin, as the Best Graduating student in her Department. Masters Degree Graduate with 4.0 CGPA outta 4.0 from University of Texas, Arlington....
Greg Nwoko Historic Blog
Friday, 26 December 2014
August Agbola O'Browne
August Agbola O'Browne (second name also spelled as Agboola, surname as just Brown) (1895–1976) was a Nigerian jazz musician by profession and is believed to have been the only black participant of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.
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Ahmet Ali Çelikten
Ahmet Ali Çelikten also known as Arap Ahmet Ali or İzmirli Ahmet Ali (born Izmirli Ali oghlu Ahmed, 1883 – 1969) may have been the first black military pilot in aviation history and was one of only two black pilots in World War I (the other being Eugene Jacques Bullard). His grandmother came from Bornu (now in Nigeria) as a slave....
Kola Aluko and Naomi Campbell.
Kola Aluko is an international business man who made the list of Forbes 'Ten Nigerian Multi-Millionaires You've Never Heard Of'' last year. But that's not the gist.This is not the first time, Kola Aluko and Naomi Campbell would been seen together in public.Dailymail featured them today...
Gregory da Silva
CAPE TOWN: The Guiness Book of Records has invited the Mother City’s “eggman”, Gregory da Silva, to Italy to attempt a world record for the biggest hat made from fresh eggs. Da Silva, born in Benin, west Africa, has become a popular street artist at Greenmarket Square, where he entertains visitors with jokes, stories and dances — all under that unique hat. “I must build a hat with fresh eggs for the record attempt. They say they have 1000 eggs waiting...
Emma McQuiston, British viscountess, celebrity chef/blogger, & former model.
Emma McQuiston, British viscountess, celebrity chef/blogger, & former model. She gained international attention when in June 2013, she married Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount Weymouth, son of the 7th Marquess of Bath. When her husband comes into his inheritance, she will become Lady Bath, Britain's 1st Black Marchioness. She has faced racism & snobbery from the upper classes, and her current in-laws had refused to attend the wedding ceremony. She...
Jaja of Opobo Jaja of Opobo (full name: Jubo Jubogha; 1821–1891)
Jaja of Opobo Jaja of Opobo (full name: Jubo Jubogha; 1821–1891) was a merchant prince and the founder of Opobo city-state in an area that is now part of Nigeria .At the 1884 Berlin Conference, however, the other European powers designated Opobo as British territory.the British arrested him and tried him in Accra , Ghana then took him to London for some time, where he met Queen Victoria & was her guest in Buckingham Palace. After this, he was...
Essex Hemphill was an American poet and activist.
Essex Hemphill was an American poet and activist. He was a 1993 Pew Fellowships in the Arts. In 1991, Hemphill edited Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men, which won a Lambda Literary Award. In 1992, he released Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry, which won the National Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual New Author Award. Hempill died from complications relating to AIDS. He was survived by his partner Dennis Carney, Chair of...
BLACK BARBIE DOLLS
Taofick Okoya was dismayed when he could not find a black doll for his niece. The 43yo spotted a gap in the market and, with little competition from foreign firms such as the maker of Barbie, he set up his own business. The dolls represent Nigeria’s three largest Ethnic Groups; Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba so far. 7 years on, Okoya sells between 6,000 and 9,000 of his Queens of Africa and Naija Princesses a month. ...
Bizarre Image
At first glance this could be a photograph of girls posing together on a sofa, however the girl on the left is deceased. Her sister has been dressed in an identical dress and places her head on her sisters shoulder. She looks so sad it is just heartbreaking, losing your beloved sister at such a young age. You can see that a book has been used to prop up the deceased girl. Such a sad photo.. ...
Arthur Ashe
Former tennis star Arthur Ashe, who contracted AIDS through a blood
transfusion, addressed a 1992 World Health Organization (WHO) meeting on
the World AIDS Day before dying a year later at age 49. Sports stars
who fought AIDS helped de-stigmatize the disease.
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Rock Hudson
It was 30
years ago this week that federal health officials first reported on a
rare and deadly illness they called AIDS. Since then millions have died
of it, including these celebrities.
A leading man in the romantic comedies of the 1950s and 1960s, actor
Rock Hudson was among the first celebrities to die of AIDS-related
diseases. His Oct. 2, 1986, death, just before his 40th birthday, led
his friend and "Giant" co-star Elizabeth Taylor...
Wednesday, 24 December 2014
The Falling Man
The Falling Man. A man, whose
identity remains unknown, falls headfirst after jumping from the north
tower of New York's World Trade Center after it was attacked on Tuesday,
Sept. 11, 2001. This now-famous photograph has become iconic, and
inspired an article in Esquire magazine, and a later documentary movie.
&nbs...
LIBERIA WAR MORGUE. 2003
Nigerian General Festus Okonkwo (3D R) leads the ECOWAS advance military
delegation on a tour of the John F. Kenndy Hospital morgue, where the
bodies of civil war victims are piled on the floor for want of space, 31
July 2003. The delegation is preparing for the deployment of an advance
force of 1,500 Nigerian troops to stanch the conflict. For the moment,
the United States will provide money, but not Marines, to back the
peacekeepers, according...
Bobby Kork (HALF MAN-HALF WOMAN)
Bobby Kork An evenly split hermaphrodite, Bobby was male on the right and female on the left. Bobby also had a 50/50 split of genetalia. Apparantly much more masculine in personality and was well known for getting in fights with people who called him a freak. He died in the mid 1900s of food poisoning.
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Santos Rodriguez
On July 24, 1973, Santos Rodriguez and his 13-year-old brother David were pulled from their home, handcuffed and put inside a police car. Officers accused them of robbing $8 from a vending machine at a nearby gas station. They denied it. Officer Darrell L. Cain decided to play a game of Russian roulette to force the boys to confess to the crime. Twelve-year-old Santos died in that squad car, his blood soaking his brother's feet.
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Cappa and D’Alberto Plc ( Oldest Nigerian construction company)
Cappa and D’Alberto Plc was established as a partnership in Nigeria in 1932 by two determined and dedicated young men from Piedmont in Northern Italy, Pietro Carlo Cappa and Vigino D’Alberto. From an undercapitalized business operating within the static economic conditions of the time, the two partners managed to secure a foothold with an initial series of small jobs from the Catholic Mission. Then, still in 1932, came the first significant contract...
The Mursi tribe
The Mursi tribe in the Omo River Valley of Ethiopia is showing off her community's iconic clay-plate lip adornment, photographer Brent Stirton.
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Tuvan tribe.
The Tyva Republic is a federal subject of Russia (a republic, also defined in the Constitution of the Russian Federation as a State . It lies in the geographical center of Asia, in southern Siberia. The republic borders with the Altai Republic, the Republic of Khakassia, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Irkutsk Oblast, and the Republic of Buryatia in Russia and with Mongolia to the south. Its capital is the city of Kyzyl. Population: 307,930 (2010 Census)
Forests,...
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