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Kaepernick: American Human Rights Advocate Gets Nike Endorsement

Colin Kaepernick, the human rights activist in the United States of America in black America to be exact has been given an endorsement deal by the company Nike. This is unprecedented as American brands tend to steer away from political issues. American…

African Innovation Featured Society West Africa World News by Ana Mosioa-Tunya September 4, 2018

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The History of Nigeria’s Textile Industry (1960-Present)

In the 1960s, there was a belief that the key to economic growth was in manufacturing. This was before the blessing and the curse of crude oil was discovered in the Niger Delta. At independence and in every successful economy in the…

Featured Society by Editor August 28, 2018

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Young Entrepreneurs: Victor Madu and Zandra Cunningham

Victor Madu- Leaux Clothing Twenty one year old Victor Madu started his business after his freshman year in College. He is inspired and motivated by his vision to revolutionize the street fashion industry. Leveraging Social Media such as Twitter and Instagram to…

Africans With Global Voices Featured Society Video by Editor August 24, 2018

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10 Quotes By Robert Mugabe on Empowerment

Robert Mugabe led the nation of Zimbabwe from 1980 until his resignation in 2017. During this time he evolved from being the leader of a liberation movement to Racial Reconciliation Chief celebrated by many westerners. In the late 1990s, as his political…

Featured Society Video West Africa by Ana Mosioa-Tunya August 20, 2018

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George Weah: Selling Liberia’s Birthright

In 2005, George Weah attempted to run for the Executive Office in Liberia against Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. The citizens charged that he was uneducated and therefore not qualified to hold the reigns of the nation. Weah returned to the classroom and obtained…

Featured by Ana Mosioa-Tunya August 13, 2018

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Rural Zimbabweans: Are They The Silent Majority?

Zimbabwe’s election is in limbo following the court filing by Nelson Chamisa leader of the MDC Alliance challenging the results of the 2018 elections. The Zimbabwe electoral commission declared Emmerson Mnangagwa of ZANU-PF the country's President. Chamisa is hugely popular in the…

Featured Society by Editor August 7, 2018

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Akon and The Future of Africa

Musician Akon was born in St. Louis, Missouri, but spent much of his childhood in the West African country of Senegal. The child of a dancer mother and a percussionist father, Mor Thiam, Akon learned to play five instruments, including drums, guitar…

Featured Land Issues Society by Editor August 1, 2018

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Ramaphosa and ANC Endorse Land Expropriation without Compensation

After a two-day lekgotla held by the ANC in Irene, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the party has agreed to land expropriation without compensation through a Constitutional amendment. The full statement made by President Ramaphosa is below: Fellow South Africans Comrades and…

Featured ReVision Society by Ana Mosioa-Tunya July 27, 2018

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10 Numbers That Tell Zimbabwe’s Story

Land Reform and Indigenization All black people are better off in 2018 than they were in 1979 under the brutal Smith regime. In 2018, the Zimbabwean Tobacco Industry & Marketing Board (TIMB) reported Zimbabweans made history with a tobacco yield of…

Central Africa Featured ReVision by Samantha Johnas July 19, 2018

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Why was the American Baptist Church Aiding the Savage Henry Morton Stanley?

The Livingstone Inland Mission (LIM) was an evangelical missionary society that operated in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1878 and 1884. Although this mission was initially funded by Henry Grattan Guinness and his wife Fanny, it was…