The Nigerian Aliko Dangote's net worth has surged, according to Forbes. As of February 18, 2025, his wealth is estimated to be $24 billion.

This significant increase is largely due to his 92.3% stake in Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals.

This new estimate ranks him as the wealthiest person in Africa and the 86th richest person globally. Interestingly, his net worth has nearly doubled from $13.4 billion in 2024.

Leah Wambui owns over 200 houses.
At the age of 16, she was orphaned, with her world seemingly coming to a standstill. She managed to go through her high school education, but could not continue to the University because she could not afford the tuition.

With the free time she had, she decided to get a job.

She started off as a receptionist and after a period of service, she decided to leave after realising she could not make enough to live a comfortable life with her current income. From there, she started a small business where she sold spirits and other beverages.

After some time, she gathered her profits and bought 5 hectares of land in a neighbouring village.

That is how the orphan girl who almost lost hope became a real estate professional and today, owns over 200 houses under the name of her business called Cheriez Properties Limited, each house being worth more than Ksh. 15million.

This is the story of Leah Wambui, a Kenyan real estate guru, changing the narrative of Africa.

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Namibia's first President, Sam Nujoma, has passed away at the age of 95.

As the leader of the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN), Nujoma led guerrilla fighters in an armed struggle against apartheid South Africa Defence Forces from 1960 to 1989.

He became Namibia's first president in 1990, serving three terms before stepping down.

Mount Elgon, an extinct volcano on the border of Uganda and Kenya, is one of the oldest and largest solitary mountains in the world. It was once Africa's highest mountain, but erosion has reduced its height to 4,321 meters, making it the fourth highest peak in East Africa.

The mountain is home to diverse ecosystems, including montane forests, bamboo zones, and afro-alpine moorlands, supporting a variety of wildlife. It's also a crucial water catchment area, feeding several major rivers.

Mount Elgon has significant cultural importance to local communities like the Sabaots and Sabiny. The mountain's unique features, such as its caldera and caves, attract hikers and nature enthusiasts. It's a vital natural resource, recognized as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve for its ecological and cultural significance.

“Interesting facts about Zimbabwe

1. The country with the most official languages in the world (2013) is Zimbabwe with 16, it’s a Guinness World Record. These are: Chewa, Chibarwe, English, Kalanga, Koisan, Nambya, Ndau, Ndebele, Shangani, Shona, sign language, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Venda and Xhosa.

2. It has five UNESCO sites, making it one of the most countries wanting to be visited in Africa.

3. It is home to one of the biggest waterfalls in the world.

4. The world's biggest man-made lake is found in Zimbabwe

5. Zimbabwe is one of the top producer of Tobacco.

6. Zimbabwe's national flower is the flame Lilly

7. Zimbabwe's has the second largest elephant population in the world, after Botswana

8. Zimbabwe has southern Africa’s highest concentration of rock art, and there are thousands of sites all over the country. The rock art was drawn by the inhabitants of the land and it shows their way of life in those ancient times. The oldest of these rock paintings date back 7○○○ years.

9. The Museum of Natural History in Bulawayo is the 4th largest in Sub-Saharan Africa

10. It is one of the most literate countries in Africa”

We’ve been farming and eating natural foods thousands of years before any foreign contact, let no one deceive you that African people don’t know how to farm. Here we eat mostly natural foods not GMO foods.

The Africans who built Louisiana’s plantations were not just laborers—they were bearers of knowledge and culture.

Originating primarily from West and Central Africa, including the Wolof, Fulbe, Bambara, Mandingo, and many others, enslaved people brought expertise that was essential to the colony’s survival.

Their agricultural skills laid the foundation for Louisiana’s rice and indigo industries, transforming the region’s economy.

Most enslaved people in Louisiana came from Senegambia, near the Senegal and Gambia Rivers, where rice cultivation was a deeply ingrained part of their heritage.
But their contributions went far beyond labor. In the kitchens and quarters of the plantations, they preserved their cultures through food, traditions, music, and storytelling.

The creativity of these individuals were integral to the development of Creole culture, leaving an indelible mark on Louisiana’s history.

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: Bambara Woman, Fulbe Man, Mandingo Woman, Wolof Woman with Child – Esquisses Sénégalaises, David Boilat (1984). Courtesy of @smithsonian_africanart

Many people have a misconception that Africa has no history, however, studies into history and archeological records has proven that Africa has more rich and great history than what the old historians tried to make us believe.

1. The human race is of African origin. The oldest known skeletal remains of anatomically modern humans (or homo sapiens) were excavated at sites in East Africa. Human remains were discovered at Omo in Ethiopia that were dated at 195,000 years old, the oldest known in the world.
2. Skeletons of pre-humans have been found in Africa that date back between 4 and 5 million years. The oldest known ancestral type of humanity is thought to have been the australopithecus ramidus, who lived at least 4.4 million years ago.
3. Africans were the first to organise fishing expeditions 90,000 years ago. At Katanda, a region in northeastern Zaïre (now Congo), was recovered a finely wrought series of harpoon points, all elaborately polished and barbed. Also uncovered was a tool, equally well crafted, believed to be a dagger. The discoveries suggested the existence of an early aquatic or fishing based culture.
4. Africans were the first to engage in mining 43,000 years ago. In 1964 a hematite mine was found in Swaziland at Bomvu Ridge in the Ngwenya mountain range. Ultimately 300,000 artefacts were recovered including thousands of stone-made mining tools. Adrian Boshier, one of the archaeologists on the site, dated the mine to a staggering 43,200 years old.
5. Africans pioneered basic arithmetic 25,000 years ago. The Ishango bone is a tool handle with notches carved into it found in the Ishango region of Zaïre (now called Congo) near Lake Edward. The bone tool was originally thought to have been over 8,000 years old, but a more sensitive recent dating has given dates of 25,000 years old. On the tool are 3 rows of notches. Row 1 shows three notches carved next to six, four carved next to eight, ten carved next to two fives and finally a seven.

Around 1840s Black people couldn’t market their music because it wouldn’t sell due to r@c’sm. They had to use wh*te people on the cover of their albums as stand-ins. Eventually, because they had to collaborate with wh*tes, their music got rebranded as wh*te music, and the wh*te musicians get more play than the people they stole the music genre from. In reality, just like most popular music genres, country music in the U.S. began with Black People. More specifically, the story of country begins with the banjo. The modern-day banjo is a descendant of a West African instrument, made from gourds, called the Akonting. When enslaved persons were taken from Africa to America, their instruments came with them. For four hundred years, enslaved people created their own music, hymns, spirituals, and field songs—all with roots in African music. Accordingly, in the 1840s, the banjo was seen as an exclusively Black instrument; it was unheard of for a wh*te person to play the banjo.
Jimmie Rodgers, the fake father of country music worked with Black musicians, combined the blues, gospel, jazz, cowboy, and folk styles in his songs...

A new ocean is slowly forming in Africa due to a 35-mile crack that appeared in Ethiopia in 2005. This crack is caused by three tectonic plates—the Nubian, Somali, and Arabian plates—gradually pulling apart. Scientists estimate it will take 5 to 10 million years for the ocean to fully form.

The Afar region, where the plates meet, is a unique place to study tectonic processes. Some researchers believe the rift is driven by a massive plume of superheated rock rising from the Earth’s mantle beneath East Africa. The plates are moving at different speeds, with the Arabian plate drifting away from Africa at about 1 inch per year and the African plates separating even slower, between 0.2 to 0.5 inches annually.

Eventually, this process will create a new mid-ocean ridge system, paving the way for a new ocean to emerge in Africa.

Eliud kipchoge is the only African athlete to have a dedicated statue at the Oregon Nike head quarters,USA.

The 2× Olympic champion is idolized for his perfect craft in the athletics world