Assad's final hours in Syria: Deception, despair and flight Bashar al-Assad confided in almost no one about his plans to flee Syria as his reign collapsed. Instead, aides, officials and even relatives were deceived or kept in the dark, more than a dozen people…

TIL that for centuries, numerous African populations were purported to be illiterate by European academics. In fact, they'd been using Ajami for literature and communication. Ajami adapts the Arabic noscript for many African languages, like Roman noscript is used…

67 years ago today, Ghana won its independence as the first Sub-Saharan colony. https://gh.ambafrance.org/Ghana-the-path-to-independence