The Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures tells the story of African-American women whose maths skills helped put a US astronaut into orbit in the 1960s. But the history of black women working for Nasa goes back much further – and they were still struggling to get the best jobs in the 1970s.

In 1943, two years after the US joined World War Two, Miriam Daniel Mann was 36 years old.

Continue reading Hidden Figures: How Nasa Hired Its First Black Women ‘Computers’ at The Afro News.

Kofi Akosah-Sarpong continues his discussions with Prof. George Ayittey on his argument that US President Barack Obama’s Accra proclamation that Africa’s future is in Africans hands is an “intellectual vindication” for the “Internalist School” of African development

Q. Did the “Internalist School” demonstrate that African intellectuals have finally come out with an African-centred development paradigm, filling a long-running vacuum in this regard?

Continue reading Emerging African development thinking Part 3 at The Afro News.