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Today in 1958, John Mahama, former president of Gh

Today in 1958, John Mahama, former president of Ghana, was born. #RxHistory⏳
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On 29 November 1958, John Mahama was born in Damongo, in the savannah region of northern Ghana. His father, Emmanuel Mahama, served as a member of parliament and as a commissioner in the government of Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah.
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Mahama graduated from the University of Ghana, Legon, in 1981, with a degree in history. He taught history in secondary schools for a few years before attending the Institute of Social Sciences in Moscow, graduating in 1988 with a postgraduate degree in social psychology. In 1996, he was first elected to Ghana's parliament under the banner of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
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He was chosen as the running mate for John Atta Mills under the NDC for the 2008 presidential election, and was inaugurated as vice president in January 2009. When Atta Mills died a few months to the end of his term, on 24 July 2012, Mahama was elevated to the presidency. He was selected as the NDC's candidate in the December 2012 election, which he won, narrowly beating out Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party, and entered a full term as the Ghanaian president. His presidency ended in January 2017.
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Read more about Mahama’s presidential legacy at the link in our bio.
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📝: Wemimo Ogunmoyela
📷: 1) John Mahama. Daily Mail GH.
2) John Mahama. New York, U.S. 21 September 2016. Michael Nagle. Bloomberg

Is Money-Spraying the Problem? #OnSite⚡️ Do y

Is Money-Spraying the Problem? #OnSite⚡️

Do you remember the last time you were sprayed with money? Was it for you, a deep celebration of culture, or ‘an abuse of a symbol of national pride’?

In our latest online essay, management consultant, Ayoola Oladipupo, explores the history of money spraying in Nigeria to better understand its interplay with our personal and collective identity. Oladipupo sheds light on why this practice persists and the growth of the mint money market. He examines also, whether there is a need for government agencies such as CBN to reassess their problematization of this practice.

According to Oladipupo: ‘Money-spraying is not the problem. In fact, instead of as a lack of national pride, it should be seen as a display of cultural pride. When I look back to my grandmother’s funeral, what I remember most vividly is my dance and the satisfying feeling of my family showing admiration as I strutted my stuff. After what felt like hours of dancing, the band leader called the next family sub-group and we grandchildren hopped back to our seats, smiling ear to ear, visibly proud of the performance we had just put in. Half of my 10,000-naira reward for this performance eventually went to my mother who “kept” it for me, and apparently continues to keep it till this day, while the other half went to the woman at the fried-fish stall we drove past on the way back from school.’

Read the full essay at the link in bio.
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📝: Ayoola Oladipupo (@ayo_ladi)
📷: ‘Money-spraying is not the problem.’ UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER

Today in 1990, Margaret Thatcher resigned as the U

Today in 1990, Margaret Thatcher resigned as the UK's prime minister. #RxHistory⏳
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On 28 November 1990, Margaret Thatcher officially resigned as prime minister of the United Kingdom, after eleven years in power.
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Margaret Thatcher was born on 13 October 1925 in Grantham, Lincolnshire. She graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in chemistry, after which she worked as a research chemist, studying to become a lawyer in her spare time. She became a barrister in 1954, and was elected as a Member of the UK Parliament in 1959.
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Thatcher's talent and conviction meant that she was mentioned as a possible future prime minister in her early 20s. She was pessimistic, saying ‘there will not be a woman prime minister in my lifetime—the male population is too prejudiced.'
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She became the leader of the Conservative Party, and won elections in a decisive victory in 1979, becoming the prime minister of the UK, and the first female prime minister in Europe. Thatcher, later nicknamed the ‘Iron Lady', went on to become one of the most renowned political leaders in UK history. She came under criticism for her refusal to impose sanctions against a racist apartheid regime in South Africa, at a time when many European countries were doing so. The UK eventually imposed limited sanctions against South Africa, despite Thatcher's objections.
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Disputes within her party led her to resign as prime minister in 1990, and she was replaced by John Major. Thatcher remained active in politics until her health started to decline in her later years, and she died on 8 April 2013, after suffering a stroke, aged 87.
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📝: Wemimo Ogunmoyela
📷: 1) Margaret Thatcher receiving gifts of cloth from craftsmen in Kano, during her official visit to Nigeria in 1988. The Telegraph
2) Jean GUICHARD/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

3 Books to Read on The Restitution of African Arte

3 Books to Read on The Restitution of African Artefacts 📚

In recent years, Africans have been pushing for European states and museums to return stolen African artefacts. Here are three books that highlight what is behind this push.

Read more on the restitution of African artefacts at the link in our bio.

Today in 1895, Alfred Nobel created the Nobel priz

Today in 1895, Alfred Nobel created the Nobel prizes. #RxHistory ⏳
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On 27 November 1895, Swedish chemist, engineer, and the inventor of dynamite, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, wrote his will in Paris, which led to the creation of the Nobel prizes. His will left the bulk of his fortune to honour those who each year, ‘have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind.'
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The prizes have been awarded since 1901 to individuals with outstanding achievements in literature, science, peace and economics. Notable African Nobel Prize laureates include Wole Soyinka (Nigeria; 1986), Nelson Mandela (South Africa; 1993), Desmond Tutu (South Africa; 1984), Kofi Annan (Ghana; 2001) and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (Liberia; 2011).
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1. Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (also known as Wole Soyinka) is a prominent Nigerian playwright, novelist and poet. He was the first Sub-saharan African to be honoured for the Nobel Prize.

2. The South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for his work in ending South Africa's apartheid system of
racial segregation. He received this award alongside Frederik Willem de Clerk, South Africa's last white president.

3. Archbishop and Anglican cleric, Desmond Tutu, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his opposition to apartheid in South Africa.

4. Kofi Annan, former United Nations Secretary-General, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001 alongside the United Nations for their work towards ensuring a better and more peaceful world.

5. Ellen Johnson - Sirleaf, former Liberian president, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with her comrade Gbowee and Yemen's Karman in 2011. This was in recognition of Johnson-Sirleaf's remarkable leadership of Liberia at a time when the country was in need of infrastructure and unity.

The Nobel Prizes have since their creation, become one of the most revered international prizes in the world.
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📝 : Chiamaka Dike
📷 : 1) Alfred Noble. Wikimedia.
2)Soyinka. Yagazie Emezi. New York Times.
3) Annan. Chester Higgins Junior.
4) Mandela. Patrick de Noirmont/Reuters.
5) Tutu. Deborah Feingold/Corbis via Getty Images.
6) Johnson-Sirleaf. Wikimedia Commons.

Nigeria’s Unforgotten War #OnSite⚡️ - In 196

Nigeria’s Unforgotten War #OnSite⚡️
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In 1967 to 1970, Nigeria was engaged in the Biafran War. In this essay, Precious Arinze provides a closer look at the more human consequences of the war, with restorative lessons for Nigeria. Arinze writes:

‘1966, the year before the Biafran War became a real thing, my father moved the family from Enugu to Sapele, leaving behind my mother, who refused to travel to Delta without her father. Her father, my grandfather, had insisted on not abandoning Okutu, the village in Enugu where he grew up. “When Biafra wins,” he used to say, “I am going to offer drinks to my Chi on this earth, on a ground we are familiar with.” For a while, in Sapele, we went about our normal lives: children danced and played games outside; the sky was not burning; the streets were not flooded with blood.

We had no knowledge of the War, besides what we picked up from the streets or heard on the radio. This was until Mama brought the War home to us.’

Read Arinze’s full essay at the link in our bio.
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📝: Precious Arinze
📷: All Images: Street Scenes, Enugu, Nigeria. 1959-1960. SIMON OTTENBERG

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