African Immigrants in the US
While watching Africa Straight Up I was excited to see people who were trying to challenge the conversation about Africa as depicted in Western Media. However, something also concerned me. Some of the Africans they chose to champion…
President Barack Obama
Thank you so much.
Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward.
It moves forward because of you. It moves forward because you reaffirmed the…
Senegalese Marieme Jamme vision is in IT investment across African continent
CEO of Spot One Global Solutions, assists foreign companies in entering African markets
Mariéme worked as an asset manager at Citibank, JP Morgan and Lloyds TSB and in various software companies…
In the past American foreign policy largely ignored Africa as a place to be contained and more of a liability. Western powers in general were more focused on the Cold War and containing Soviet Union this of course is the official story.…
A couple of years ago I was speaking to a friend about July 4 th and she was confused since in Africa we never knew the history behind July the 4 th. July 4 th is in fact American Independence Day…
One writer once said that revolutionaries are never led by people who are poor because they are too focused on what Chenjerai Hove the Zimbabwe author would term ‘politics of the belly’ and if they are too wealthy they cannot understand or…
For Woodlands resident David Olowokere, one of Nigeria's sons, having a master's degree in engineering just wasn't enough for his people back home. So he got a doctorate. His wife, Shalewa Olowokere, a civil engineer, didn't stop at a bachelor's, either.…
The road infrastructure in Africa for the whole region is smaller than that of a small country such as Poland. Compared to South East Asia, SSA rail freight costs are 200% more and this makes sourcing more complex. This statistic explains why…
A few days ago pictures of Donald Trump's sons surfaced that showed them with carcasses from a hunting expedition in Zimbabwe in 2010. Donald Trump the American mogul who contemplated running for the highest office in America as a Republican candidate for…
Nominations for President of the World Bank were submitted today. Leading contenders include Nigerian born Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Korean born Jim Yong Kim. One of the questions for black people around the world is; will the ascension of Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala…