From South Africa to Zambia and from Nigeria to Malawi, the largely forgotten Greeks of Africa are of special interest. We discussed with Mr. Antonis Chaldaios, historian and author, Associate Researcher at the University of Johannesburg, about the migratory flows of Greeks in the region, the difficult conditions they were called to face but also the adaptability they demonstrated.
Noted South African lawyer George Bizos, who defended Nelson Mandela in many of his trials during the anti-apartheid struggle and helped win his release from prison, died on Wednesday at the age of 92.
“We are Greeks because we got educated in Greece,” says Jonah (Lwanga), the Metropolitan of Kampala and All Uganda, the spiritual leader of more than 100.000 Ugandans who are Greek Orthodox Christians.
For the first time in history, Greek tennis has celebrated a twin triumph in the same weekend.
A team from Greece are photographing thousands of fragile manuscripts, including some of the earliest copies of the Christian gospels.
Greek historian’s description of ‘baris’ vessel vindicated by archaeologists at sunken city of Thonis-Heraclion.
Greek man Antonis Mavropoulos said on Sunday he would have been the 150th passenger on the Nairobi-bound Ethiopian Airlines Boeing plane that crashed killing all on board, however he arrived two minutes late for the flight and ground staff refused to let him on board.
Greek archaeologist Calliope Limneos-Papakosta had been searching in the heart of Alexandria, Egypt, for almost 14 years for traces of Alexander the Great, king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia, and just as she was about to give up, her prayer was finally answered.
The third phase of the Nostos – The Return programme, implemented in the framework of trilateral cooperation between Cyprus, Greece and Egypt on diaspora issues, will take place in Australia at the end of March.
The Greek community of Egypt honored the Greek soldiers who fell in El Alamein, during the ferocious battle against the Axis powers in the Second World War.