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The former U.S. President and First Lady, Barack and Michelle Obama entered the White House with a $1.3 million net worth in 2008 and have since grown to an estimated $40 million. According to Forbes, Barack Obama made $20 million from his salary alone since he joined the US Senate in 2005 to the end of hisContinue reading “How the Obamas are flying fast into the billion dollar circle”

It is quite disturbing that in 2018, adults and children all over the world are still being bought and sold in public markets and women are forced to marry against their will to provide labour. Others are forced to work in factories, on boats and in homes as maids while their wages are withheld. TheseContinue reading “Slavery exists in these African countries and they are doing almost nothing to end it”

China has won over the heart of Africa after years of financial support in the form of loans that have turned out to be more harm than good. Many countries have defaulted in payment while a few others are slowly paying through debt servicing. In 2015, China offered the continent $60 billion in loans; and inContinue reading “These are Africa’s biggest borrowers from China in the last 10 years”

Basketball is not a dominant sport in Africa but some Africans have defied the odds to make their way into the biggest professional basketball league in the world, the National Basketball Association (NBA) of North America. NBA players are the world’s best-paid athletes and the league has 30 teams – 29 from the United StatesContinue reading “The rise and rise of NBA giant Masai Ujiri and how he is uplifting African youth through basketball”

“Music is supposed to have an effect. If you’re playing music and people don’t feel something, you’re not doing s**t. That’s what African music is about. When you hear something, you must move. I want to move people to dance, but also to think. Music wants to dictate a better life, against a bad life.Continue reading “Nigerian Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti is alive”