Zenzile Miriam Makeba was born in Johannesburg in 1932. Her mother was a Swazi sangoma and her father, who died when she was six, was a Xhosa. As a child, she sang at the Kilmerton Training Institute in Pretoria, which…
Henry Kissinger, the esteemed statesman and Nobel laureate, passed away on Wednesday, November 29, 2023. With his demise, the world bids farewell to a remarkable figure whose contribution to American foreign policy remains celebrated and contested. Throughout his tenure as…
LISBON, Portugal (A.P.) — José Eduardo dos Santos, once one of Africa’s longest-serving rulers, died at age 79. During almost four decades as president of Angola, he fought the continent’s longest civil war and turned his country into a major…
Sidney Poitier died on Friday at age 94. The Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis broke the sad news in a speech broadcast on Facebook Sidney Poitier was Born Sidney L. Poitier on February 20, 1927. He was a Bahamian-American actor, film director,…
United Nations Former secretary-general Kofi Annan died today Saturday, August 18, 2018, at the age of 80. He received the Nobel Peace Prize laureate jointly with the United Nations (UN) for their for a better organized and more peaceful world.,…
