Here we have three South African women, one Nigerian and one Egyptian. Miss Universe Perhaps the most glamorous of the Big Four pageants is Miss Universe, which was established in 1952.

Then African Queens: Njinga absolutely needs to be on your radar. Here’s a fun (read: not fun) fact for you: it is still not compulsory to teach women’s history on the UK national curriculum ...

Built in 1912, this iconic steamboat's claim to fame is its role in the 1951 film, "The African Queen," starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. The vessel has a storied history that spans ...

“African Queen,” against its actual background. The Technicolor hues come on the screen with the Dark Continent’s natural, soft tints and serve to sharpen the telling of a story that deals ...

In our series of letters from African writers, Nigerian journalist and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani writes about the throne reserved for the Queen of ... we document our history, so we did ...

Benson Ibeabuchi / AFP In an emotional end to the pageant, Chidimma Adetshina, the South African beauty queen who faced xenophobic abuse wins the title On Tuesday, a former circus animal ...

Welcomed home by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Poet Laureate John Masefield’s twelve-line ode, “On the Return of Our Gracious Sovereign from Africa,”* Queen Elizabeth II returned to ...

Never this bad, not in Netflix history. Honesty ... be a historical documentary saying that Cleopatra was a black “African queen,” as this season was supposed to be the first in a series ...