3 Black Child Prodigies ‘Under 14’ Who Have Attained First Degree Honours.

The common reaction they receive is shock or disbelief. This is because in most countries it is uncommon to see people under 14 going to college. But for these child prodigies, breaking the educational status quo is their stock-in-trade. While their peers are still learning their timetables, they have gone ahead to achieve the unthinkable. Here are 3 black children who have joined an elite list of young scholars around the world.

Africa’s biggest female bosses leading male-dominated industries.

For African women, history shows that it took a very long time for them to enjoy basic human rights. Women and children are regarded as the weaker sex who suffer the most in society. Through the fight for equality and provision of human rights and privileges to women in society, they have proven that they are a force to reckon with and a set back is no reason not to rise as fast they can.

African leaders with the lowest salaries.

Isaias Afwerki: The Eritrean leader is one of the lowest paid African leaders, earning a monthly salary of US$500, as of 2017. Two years prior, there were reports that he earned on average less than US$ 400 a month, making less than what some mining companies that had set up in his own doorstep and their workers make.

Interesting facts about the Great Walls of Benin in Nigeria, one of the world’s largest man-made earth structures.

It may not be as famous as the Great Wall of China, but it was at one time in history the largest man-made structure in the world. Constructed over a period of 600 years, the Great Walls of Benin was located at the southern border of the defunct Benin Kingdom, which was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in West Africa.

This is why people are putting their ‘I voted’ stickers on Susan B Anthony’s grave.

Millions of voters who cast their ballots in the midterm elections spent the rest of the day proudly wearing their “I voted“ stickers.

African pastors ‘reaching for the heavens’ with their private jets.

Though Africa is largely seen as the poorest continent, it is, however, home to quite a considerable number of multimillionaires and billionaires and collating a list of these “well-to-do” personalities can never be complete without including the “men of God”.

Joy as single mom of five passes bar exam after gracefully graduating law school.

 

The mother of five children who wowed everyone in May after photos of her graduation went viral has just passed her bar exam to the joy of many. Being a single mother and working towards a professional degree is challenging, but the 33-year-old, Ieshia Champs, who has beaten the odds learned on Monday that she had passed the exam, expressing her excitement on Facebook.“God, you did that! Ieshia N. Champs, Esq.

Tanzanian woman made a fortune as a miner by disguising herself as a man.

Pili Hussein was 31 when she ran away from her abusive husband in the late 1980s in search of work. Growing up in a large family in Tanzania, Hussein was one of 388 children of a livestock keeper who had many large farms and six wives

Michelle reveals the biggest secret of the Obamas.

The Obamas have opened up about what many would describe as their biggest secret having to go through in vitro fertilization to conceive their two daughters. The two resorted to IVF after the former First Lady, Michelle Obama was left feeling “lost and alone” following a miscarriage 20 years ago.“We were trying to get pregnant and it wasn’t going well.”

Diagnosed with HIV as a pregnant teen, Livey Van Wyk beat the odds to become Namibia’s youngest mayor.

Jo-Ann Livey Van Wyk was diagnosed with HIV at the age of 17 while she was still at school, and this naturally changed her life forever.“It all started out as being an innocent young child at school, and then I fell pregnant. I was 5 months pregnant at the time when I received a phone call from the doctor saying I needed to come in immediately.