Enjoying our content?
Subscribe and receive a weekly newsletter packed with awesome stories to inspire you!
Tributes
Tribute: Sophie Oluwole: 1936- December 24rd 2018
Born at an area of Ondo state known as Igbara Oke, Sophie Oluwole is the first female Nigerian to bag a Phd in Philosposhy.
She had her primary school educations in Ife, in the 1040s while...
Tributes
Princess Olufunke Deborah Adedoyin
Princess Olufunke Deborah Adedoyin was a wonderful, dynamic, joyful part of our lives. She was a constant source of strength, leadership, encouragement, and joy. She was a wonderful daughter - a great confidante and cheerleader...
Tributes
Cecelia Helena Payne Gaposchkin
- 0
Ceclia Helena Payne was the first of three children born on the 10th of May, 1900 in Wendover, England, to Emma Leonora Helena, a skilled artist, who came from an academically accomplished German family and...
Tributes
Tribute: Aretha Franklin (25th March 1942-16th August 2018)
- 1
Known as the Queen of Soul Music, Aretha Franklin, ’ was a singer, song writer, civil rights activist, actress and pianist.
She was born as one of four children to piano player and vocalist, Barbara (nee...
Tributes
Audrey Lorde (18th Feb 1934- 17th Nov. 1992)
- 0
Born in New York to immigrant parents from the Caribbean, Audrey was the youngest of 3 sisters. She grew up listening to her mother telling stories about the West Indies and teaching them how to...
Tributes
Senator Wuraola Esan (1909-1985)
- 0
Wuraola Adepeju Esan was born in 1909 in Calabar to the famous Ojo’badan family. Her father Chief Thomas Adeogun Ojo was a veteran of the First World War and a forestry officer.
Esan attended Baptist Girls...