Tag: History
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Touring the National Museum of Computing, Bletchley, England
Computers and information technology have become an integral part of our lives in the digital age. Just about everything we do, have or enjoy has been defined and made possible by computers, but the history of these powerful resources, their influence on politics, and the rest of the world hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves.
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Asaba Massacre Victims – 7th October 1967
Sequel to my previous post on the Asaba Massacre Memorial Day, below are a list of some 374 people, less than half the number of civilians murdered on the 7th of October, 1967.
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Asaba Massacre Memorial Day 2017 Itinerary
Exactly 50 years ago today, Saturday, the 7th of October, over a thousand civilians in Asaba, mostly men, were murdered by soldiers of the Nigerian Army. Though on hearing that the war was approaching the town, many indigenes had fled across the Niger, a good number remained because the town was not part of Biafra, not…
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Black History Month: Reviewing The Invention of Wings
GET THIS BOOK For Black History Month, I enjoyed reading the New York Times Bestseller –The Invention of Wings. It’s my second book this year and it took me about 3 days to read it all. Here’s my review. Background The Invention of Wings is an American historical novel by Sue Monk Kidd, set in the early 1800s in Charleston.…
