African Spotlight Spotlighting Africans at Home and Abroad

The Summer Jam concert held last night at Eko Hotel, Lagos. Enjoy courtesy Irok TV.

AFP – South Africans believed police massacres were for the history books and museums, but around Soweto’s Hector Pieterson Memorial the killing of 34 miners stirred dark memories and new worries. In Soweto’s 1976 uprising, honoured at this memorial, white apartheid police gunned down black students demanding a better education in a protest that left 23 dead the first day, ...

AFP – South Africa’s police watchdog Saturday was sifting through evidence from the police killings of 34 workers at a platinum mine, as the nation tried to piece together the causes of the tragedy. The police have greatly reduced their presence at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine, with a half dozen armoured vehicles stationed near the scene of the killings and ...

This little boy born in Leizhou, south China, is a healthy and normal baby, but has eight toes on each foot and five fingers but no thumbs on both hand. This rare condition, called polydactylism, is usually genetic. The parents will have all the extra digits surgically removed, his dad said. Credit: Chinese-tools.com