Celebrating the trailblazing first female senate president of Jamaica who died at 82

It is pointless to acquire so much knowledge and experience and not share them with anyone. Otherwise, when you pass on, you go with what you learned. Jeanette Grant-Woodham was the first female president of the Senate of Jamaica who shared her knowledge with those she encountered and today she is hailed as a trailblazer. She died earlier this week.

The story behind why Winnie and Nelson Mandela could no longer be married

After he was sentenced to life in prison in 1964, iconic South African president Nelson Mandela stood in a court dock only one more time for the rest of his life when his wife Winnie Madikizela insisted on a very public divorce process. According to reports at the time, the first black president of South Africa had insisted on a private and amicable dissolution of the 38-year marriage which became in part, an odd symbolic anti-apartheid union.

Black activists took Congolese art from Dutch museum streaming the activity on Facebook

A group that says it was recovering stolen African art in Europe went to the Afrika Museum in Nijmegen, Netherlands, and took a Congolese statue, all the while streaming their operation on Facebook Live.

‘Racist’ ad by South African drug retailer triggers protests as stores are damaged

A shampoo advertisement shared on the website of South African drug retail giant Clicks Group on Friday drew the ire of locals who deemed it “racist”, triggering protests in the country. The protests forced the pharmaceutical company to close over 400 of its stores nationwide after seven were damaged by protesters who gathered there on Monday, Reuters reported.

Do you know the oil industry is lobbying the US gov’t to force African countries to take plastic waste?

An oil industry lobby is advising the US government to put pressure on Kenya to loosen its stance against plastic waste. Manufacturers of plastic are looking for new dumping grounds in Africa after China refused to take plastic waste any longer. Photo of the dumpsite in Kenya by Khadija Farah.