Inspiring Story of Young African! Wins $4000 Scholarship to Study Mining Engineering in Canada

A young Nigerian girl, living in Toronto, has recently proven that your surroundings don’t have to be a hinderance to your potential for greatness and achievements.

According to the report by CTV News, since moving to Toronto 5 years ago, Hafeezat Ameen, lived in a low income neighbourhood. However, she didn’t let that stop her.

She worked hard at school, (also tutoring) and worked at Tim Hortons to make some extra cash to support her family. Today, she is one of two women who have been awarded $4,000 scholarship for the mining engineering program at Laurentian University.

Russell Peters: God loves Africans way more than Asians

Air Canada flight diverted after a South African assaulted passengers

Tyler Anderson/National Post

A flight was diverted to Halifax, Canada, and a South African passenger was arrested after she allegedly assaulted two flight attendants on the plane traveling from London to Toronto.

Air Canada Flight 869 was diverted just after 12 p.m., local time, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, according to police. The flight resumed its trip with the remaining 239 passengers and crew at about 3 p.m

When the plane landed in Halifax, Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers, Canada's national police force, came aboard and arrested the 30-year-old woman, CTV News reported.

South African Man Faces Deportation From UK Because His British Wife's Salary Is Too Small.

Michael Engel, pictured with his wife Natalie and daughter Nyana, now has 14 days to appeal against the ruling

A man faces deportation from the UK after a court ruled his British wife's salary was not high enough.

Michael Engel, from South Africa, said the "bizarre" immigration system rules were "attacking British citizens".

Mr Engel, a 31-year-old yacht engineer living in Cornwall, said he and wife Natalie plan to go back to South Africa with 18-month-old daughter Nyana.

A Home Office spokesman said the rules were designed to stop foreign spouses becoming reliant on UK taxpayers.

The couple were told of the immigration tribunal's ruling after they had appealed on the grounds of a right to family life.

Beverly Johnson Becomes First African American Model to Accuse Bill Cosby of Rape

Since the rape allegations against Bill Cosby started piling up a few weeks ago, there was a common trend with the women who were all Caucasian, models and TV stars.

The first African-American woman with allegations against the American comedy king has now stepped forward and it is Beverly Johnson, a woman who made history as the first African-American model to appear on the cover of American Vogue magazine.

According to 62-year-old Beverly Johnson, even though Bill Cosby drugged her he was not able to take advantage of her because she was very conscious of what was happening.

Read her first-hand account of what happened as told exclusively to Vanity Fair magazine in a long essay called ‘Bill Cosby Drugged Me. This Is My Story':

Like most Americans, I spent the 60s, 70s, and part of the 80s in awe of Bill Cosby and his total domination of popular culture. He was the first African American to star in a dramatic television series, I Spy, a show my family in Buffalo, New York, always watched. Cosby cut a striking figure on-screen then. He was funny, smart, and even elegant—all those wonderful things many white Americans didn’t associate with people of color. In fact, as I thought of going public with what follows, a voice in my head kept whispering, “Black men have enough enemies out there already, they certainly don’t need someone like you, an African American with a familiar face and a famous name, fanning the flames.”

Thirsty! African and Indonesia women 'dry' their vaginas with sand and bleach to make sex more pleasurable for men

Some women in Central Africa, South Africa, and Indonesia go through harmful practices to “dry” their vaginas because of a cultural belief that doing so increases the sexual pleasure of men they sleep with.

According to Daily Mail, these women insert materials like sand, chalk, pulverized rock, herbs, sponges, or paper before sexual intercourse. In addition, they douse their privates in bleach, alcohol, detergents, antiseptics. Women in Java, Indonesia are said to “smoke out” their privates, by standing over burning herbs.

In addition to the belief that the practice will give men pleasure, it is also believed that the dryness will make the vagina firmer, as men are thought to reject women whose privates have been “stretched out” due to sex.

South African Man Slice Open A Pregnant Dead Shark To Save Its Pups

Pictures of a gruesome but remarkable effort of a man saving three shark pups from their dead mother before releasing them into the ocean on a beach in Cape Town, South Africa as emerged online. 

A family found the deceased mother shark on the beach but noticed there was still movement inside. Realising the animal may have been pregnant, the head of the family, used a knife to perform a makeshift C-section on the animal, successfully saving three pups.