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Belinda Sutton: The remarkable Ghanaian...

Belinda Sutton: The remarkable Ghanaian slave who...

The legacy of Eliza Moore,...

The legacy of Eliza Moore, one of...

Belinda Sutton: The remarkable Ghanaian slave who won the first reparation petition, by Gift Luckson

Belinda Sutton: The remarkable Ghanaian slave who won the first reparation petition, by Gift Luckson Belinda Sutton (born 1713 in Africa), also known as Belinda Royall, was a woman born in what is now Ghana who was enslaved by the Royall family at the Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford, Massachusetts, USA. Background Additional details of Sutton's family life are under ongoing research. Baptism records for a son Joseph, and a daughter Prine, appear in church records. Belinda was abandoned by Isaac Royall Jr. when he fled to Nova Scotia at...
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Humanity

Stop The Axe:...

Kano city, now metropolis is an important chapter in the history of world urbanization and if we describe Kano as the queen of Hausaland...
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From The Archives

5 amazing facts...

Wednesday, November 11, 2020, marked the 102nd year since the First World War ended through the signing of the Armistice by the Central Powers...
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Gist

Ahebi Ugbabe: Prostitute...

At a time when the female folks were totally alienated from masculine duties and a society where they were conspicuously marginalised, Ahebi Ugbabe was...
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Feature

Perennial Flood In...

BreakThrough My brief odyssey last week to Hadejia brought me face to face with a pool of people of Agubu, a suburb area of Hadjia,...
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Feature

Meet Zainab Abacha,...

Many people may not know this but Senator Yakubu Lado DanMarke is married to one of the daughters of Late General Sani Abacha, former...
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Feature

Meet Musa Muhammad...

Musa Muhammad Khalid, popularly known as Abu A’ish MK Albani, is an indigene of Bindawa Local Government Area of Katsina State. Abu A’ish MK...
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Feature

Meet Sabi’u Yusuf...

Sabiu Yusuf is the Personal Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, he was appointed immediately after the President won the 2015 general elections. Sabiu Yusuf Tunde,...
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From The Archives

8 African heroes...

A little over the past decade, the stories of powerful kings and queens who worked hard at building powerful kingdoms and sustaining them for...
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Crime

Human Security Dimension...

In December 2019, a new class of coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 (later renamed COVID-19) Pandemic came like a thunderbolt to the whole world, as...
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