When US, world’s richest man Rockefeller was given 12 months to live, he began sharing his fortune of $340b and outlived his death sentence by 44 years
In 1913, he established the Rockefeller Foundation. What followed changed the world.
In a system designed to kill you, invisibility is survival: How silence saved German girl assigned to serve Nazi murders
They settled in Queens. Flora worked multiple jobs – seamstress, whatever she could find – long hours at immigrant wages that barely covered rent. But she had a purpose beyond survival: her son would have the freedom, opportunity and voice stolen from her.
Dismissed and ostracised: Intriguing story of America’s trailblazing Back Dr Margaret Morgan Lawrence who revolutionised child psychiatry and psychoanalysis
Psychiatry and psychoanalysis in the 1940s were overwhelmingly white, male and oriented toward treating wealthy private patients in Manhattan consulting rooms. The dominant theoretical frameworks were Freudian, focused on individual psychosexual development, with little consideration of social context, racism, or structural oppression.
How in a tiny rented in 1896 in Detroit, US, Henry Ford built the first gasoline-powered car and changed the way the world travels
Seven years later, on June 16, 1903, Ford launched the Ford Motor Company in a small converted carriage factory in Detroit. The company’s first year brought in $37,000 in profit against $28,000 in investment.
How philosopher John Dewey’s ‘school of chaos’ similar to Competency-Based Education in Kenya catapulted America to industrial giant
There were no rigid lessons. Children learned math by running a store, science by cooking, history by building tools. They moved. They spoke. They failed in public. Dewey treated mistakes as data, not disobedience. Knowledge came from experience, not recitation.
How South African teenage girl who spoke English, French, Arabic, Swahili and Kikuyu was instrumental in Britain’s WWII victory over Germany
Over the course of her mission, Pippa Latour sent 135 coded messages. Each one directed RAF precision bombing runs. Each one armed French Resistance cells. Each one brought D-Day closer to success.
Dorothy in the rain: Sad story of Kitale magistrate transitioned from courtroom to rented room, friend’s couch before dying alone streets
Then something cracked. Nobody knows exactly when it started. And the public is asking uncomfortable questions. How does someone move from the bench… to the pavement? Was it pressure? Politics? Isolation?
Caroli Omondi: ODM’s stealth operator who understands that in political dance financing sets the rhythm to which others must shake
When Caroli Omonfi served as Chief of Staff in the Office of the Prime Minister between 2008 and 2013, he became a keeper of secrets, a negotiator in dark rooms, and an unseen reservoir of calm when tempers flared.
Why Ruto’s unfinished 35-year old KPC-Ngong Forest land fraud is a stain Kenya’s judiciary
The key legal question was whether the land had been properly degazetted (legally removed from forest status) before it was subdivided, allocated and later sold.
Why Nyerere called fairy love story of Botswana of President Seretse Khama and his White wife Ruth ‘one of the great love stories of the world’
And three governments – Britain, South Africa and Seretse’s own tribal council – mobilised to stop them. Seretse wrote to his uncle Tshekedi, the regent who had raised him since his father’s death, announcing his intention to marry Ruth. Tshekedi was horrified.
