Additionally, the advance of Sokoto's jihadist forces from the north ... as the first African countries decolonised, starting with Sudan in 1956 and Ghana in 1957. Within the economic and social ...

The Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky, has a new photo exhibit in honor of International Women's Day: "Iconic Women ...

A 19-year-old mechanic in Nigeria who maintains the water supply, a ground-breaking jazz guitarist from Sudan, deep-sea ...

Born in Omdurman, Sudan in 1943, Zakia Abul Gassim Abu Bakr ... Rasheedat Umar, 19, is one of the few female mechanics in Nigeria's Sokoto State. She got her training in a program that ...