Press Release Africans in the diaspora gave over $60 billion to the continent in 2012 through remittances. Much of this money supported the education and health needs and day to day consumption of relatives, proving the generosity of ordinary Africans. Beyond this, there is also a growing wave of high profile philanthropists such as Mo…
This is a follow up on one of our previous postings on the African Movie Academy Awards 2012, where we cross-posted the results of the winning films. We are here highlighting the winning Diaspora Documentary by Branwen Okpako: “The Education of Auma Obama”. Auma Obama has always been an activist for social justice and especially towards…
In October this year, I was accepted as a Ford Foundation Fellow through the UNITY journalists of Color organization. This program provides the opportunity for journalists of color to become entrepreneurs. I was awarded the fellowship based on a project I created, The Who’s World Media Project, which highlights the hidden treasures of Black history and culture around the…
Ogoni Open Letter on the proposed environmental cleaning of OgoniLand based on the UNEP report/recomendations
In a previous post, Aisha Khadar Desince – Director of Khadarlis for Sierra Leone – reported to you how she returned to the now war-torn village of her childhood Jimi, in the Southern province of Sierra Leone after 15 years in the US. She described how it felt meeting again beloved ones that remained in the ruins after…
Below you find an extract of a paper that was presented at the Seminar on Cultural Diplomacy In Africa (CDA), and International Conference on Cultural Diplomacy In Africa – Strategies to Confront The Challenges of the 21st Century: Does Africa Have What is Required? The author of the text is Sulaiman A. Osho – from…
Denmark-based designer cooperation is launching a new jeans-concept – WANGU JEANS. Here is their press release: It can be difficult to find the perfect pair of jeans, especially if you are more curved than others. Toniah Pedersen knows this well – and she is now set to do something about it. The X Factor choreographer has now become…
On 21 and 22 June, US First Lady Michelle Obama visited Jo’burg and Soweto in South Africa to talk and take part at The Young African Women Leaders Forum: Media coverage in and across Africa was quite decent, but whoever expected coverage in the main US newspapers or other western media was left with not…
Celebrations of Africa Day and the International Year for People of African Descent The Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations in partnership with the United Nations Senior Africans Group and the African Diaspora are hosting today an event at the UN to celebrate African Liberation Day. Forging closer links between Africa…
The 10. Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and for Indigenous Peoples was held from 16 to 27 May 2011 in New York at the UN Headquarters. Find below pictures and statements from the African Delegation:
African Perspectives 