Job Maseko was a South African soldier during World War II, who sank a German Ship with a bomb made from a milk can. This single action landed him in

Maniru Ibrahim is a mathematics genius who was awarded a scholarship worth over €20 million by the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research Training in the Foundation of Data Science.

Violet Edwards is the oldest African-American to receive a university degree at 96 years and 263 days old.
Singer, The Therapist released the most anticipated remix of his trending song Nack featuring Nigerian singer Mayorkun.
Peter Obi is a Nigerian politician, businessman and frontline Presidential candidate in Nigeria's forthcoming 2023 presidential election.
SendMe SL is an e-commerce platform that provides quality and safe deliveries like corporate delivery; door-to-door delivery; food delivery; pickup and personal delivery for businesses and consumers in Sierra Leone.
A Sierra Leonean by the name of Hafiz Alhassan Kanu has created an app called Supfrica and it's two times faster than WhatsApp.
Ivorian entrepreneur, Alain Capo-Chichi has made history by creating the country's first-ever locally-made smartphone, which aims to improve accessibility with voice commands in 16 of the 60 local languages in

There are certainly no limitations to what black people can accomplish. Haben Girma is a living testament. The 34-year-old author, advocate, speaker, and disability justice lawyer became the first-ever deafblind

The Banna, sometimes called Benna or Banya are a Nilotic ethnic group in Ethiopia that can be found in areas like Chari mountain near Kako town and Dimeka.
A young Nigerian boy based in the United Kingdom, Chika Ofili, made a historical discovery in Mathematics by creating a new mathematical formula to make the study of mathematics easier

Godwin Ajala is often remembered and celebrated as an American national hero who laid his life for the sake of countless people who were escaping from the World Trade Center

Emmanuel Alieu Mansaray is a 25-year-old self-taught Sierra Leonean innovator and engineer who built the first-ever locally made solar-powered car in Sierra Leone.
The Jollof war is a never-ending war in Africa between Africans who come on social media to defend their Jollof over another.
Isah Auwal-Barde, age 17, from Kano State in Nigeria has invented a robot that works with a robotic exoskeleton remote control.

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