Interesting images from around Africa

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (born 1954) is the former Finance Minister and later, Foreign Minister of Nigeria. the first woman to hold either of these positions.

The world’s first heart transplant was done in South Africa in 1967 by South African Dr Chris Barnard.

A chronicle of Africa in general , but particularly Ghana, the first country in on the continent to gain independence, Rwanda , the greatly divided on tribal lines and which witnessed one of the gr

Uzodinma Iweala is an author from Washington, DC and Nigeria. The novel Beasts of No Nation is his debut work. It is about a child soldier in an unnamed African country.

Haile Selassie (1892 – 1975). Selassie's progressive politics and attempts to modernize Ethiopia through technological advances and membership in the world community.