The 14-year-old girl who is the first African American winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee hopes her success helps get other minorities interested in spelling bees and education. (July 9) I ...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — The nation’s first African American winner has breezed to victory at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Fourteen-year-old Zaila Avant-garde of Harvey, Louisiana, didn’t ...

Kenya was part of the organisations that founded The African Spelling Bee in 2016 together with Botswana, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Nigeria, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The very first African ...

The Spelling Bee Championship was first held in Nairobi County in 2016 where a pilot was done before the program could be rolled out to all the counties. The prize was a fully paid trip to ...

The We Can Do This Community Project recently hosted a spelling bee, where talented learners competed across categories and walked away with top honours.

Nigeria is to host this year’s edition of African Spelling Bee competition before the end of year. The competition will involve secondary school pupils from 27 African member-nations who are national ...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Zaila Avant-garde understood the significance of what she was doing as she stood on the Scripps National Spelling Bee stage, peppering pronouncer Jacques Bailly with ...

Zaila Avant-garde understood the significance of what she was doing as she stood on the Scripps National Spelling Bee stage, peppering pronouncer Jacques Bailly with questions about Greek and Latin ...