South Africa > Business : Suzanne STYLES
Extract : Suzanne Styles born August 13, 1965 in England is a successfull south african entrepreneur. As a child, Suzanne was surrounded with a family that seemed to constantly struggle financially....
View ArticleRwanda > Literature : Scholastique MUKASONGA
Extract : Scholastique Mukasonga born in 1956 is Rwandan writer. Her family were exterminated....
View ArticleBenin > Science : Bertin NAHUM
Extract : Bertin Nahum born in 1970 is a French engineer & businessman of Beninese origin.Bertin NAHUM is a graduate of The National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA Lyon, France) and holds a...
View ArticleTogo > Arts : William WILSON
Extract : William Wilson born March 16, 1952 , is a French-Togolese artist who lives in Paris (France). He was born in 1952 from a french mother and a father from the Guin-Mina people living on the...
View ArticleNigeria > Arts : Kehinde WILEY
Extract : Kehinde Wiley born in 1977 in Los Angeles, is an American artist (portrait-painter) of African origin.His father is Yoruba from Nigeria, and his mother is African-American....
View ArticleUnited Kingdom > Lisa LOVATT-SMITH
Extract : Lisa Lovatt-Smith born in 1967 in Barcelona of British parents. At 18, she began a meteoric career at Vogue magazine that took her to posts in London, Milan, Madrid and Paris....
View ArticleKenya > Politics : Barack Hussein OBAMA
Extract : "As long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible." Never in the history of the world has the election of a President, let alone the...
View ArticleNigeria > Science : Grace ALELE WILLIAMS
Extract : Grace Alele Williams(b. December 16,1932) In 1963, Williams became the first Nigerian woman to earn any doctorate – in this case, for mathematics....
View ArticleSenegal > Arts : Aminata NIANE
Extract : Aminata Niane Diop born December 6, 1956 in Dakar Senegal was the Managing director of APIX (Investment Promotion & Major Projects Agency)....
View ArticleMali > Science : Cheikh Modibo DIARRA
Extract : (b.in 1952), is a Malian astrophysicist, a specialist in space exploration and a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador....
View ArticleMorocco > Literature : Malika OUFKIR
Extract : Malika Oufkir born April 2, 1953, is a Moroccan writer and the eldest daughter of General Mohammed Oufkir, the second most important person in the kingdom having been minister of the Interior...
View ArticleNigeria > Science : Philip EMEAGWALI
Extract : Dr Emeagwali Philip (b. August 23, 1954), is a Nigerian computer scientist....
View ArticleSouth Africa > Fashion : Reeva STEENKAMP
Extract : Reeva Steenkamp born (August 19, 1983, died February 14, 2013), was a South African Model and actress. Reeva Steenkamp was looking forward to Valentine's Day....
View ArticleSouth Africa > Sport : Oscar PISTORIUS
Extract : February 14, 2013, Oscar Pistorius has been arrested and charged with the murder of his Model girlfriend. Her name was Reeva Steenkamp ....
View ArticleCameroon > Professionals : Alice NKOM
Extract : Alice Nkom is a Cameroonian Lawyer well known for her advocacy towards decriminalization of homosexuality in Cameroon. She was the first woman to become a lawyer in Cameroon....
View ArticleNigeria > Science : Nneka francisca OKEKE
Extract : Francisca Nneka Okeke is a Nigerian scientist, Professor of Physics at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She recently received the L’Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science Award for her...
View ArticleEthiopia > Fashion : Aynaw YITYISH TITI
Extract : Yityish Titi Aynaw (born 1992) is an Israeli of Ethiopian origin beauty queen who became the first from the Ethiopian Israeli immigrant minority to be crowned Miss Israel 2013.Aynaw is also...
View ArticleSomalia > Fashion : Waris DIRIE
Extract : Waris Dirie Jones (b. in 1965) , is a former Somali supermodel , writer and a voice for millions that have none when she became a United Nations advocate for the abolition of female genital...
View ArticleSenegal > Arts : Ousmane WILLIAM MBAYE
Extract : Ousmane William Mbaye (born in 1952), is a Senegalese director....
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