After Pope Benedict’s resignation, everyone around the world was glued into the Vatican on 3/13/13 - a mystical kind of number ushering in a mystical carnivalesque kind of celebration, and a seemingly new beginning bringing together the past and the future with social »

By now most of the world has heard the news or maybe not since this has received very limited global media attention outside of specific internet outlets, that Israel started 2013 on the path to a more inclusive Israel by electing Pnina Tamano-Shata as »

“Uhuru Kenyatta, one of Kenya’s richest men and the son of Kenya’s first president, Jomo Kenyatta, has won the presidential election despite facing charges by the International Criminal Court of financing post-electoral violence in 2007…Uhuru Kenyatta makes history by becoming the East African nation’s »

After a hard fought two year battle with cancer, El Comandante AKA Hugo Chávez has been called home to his final resting place amongst true world revolutionaries and socialist leaders such as Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, who ironically the nation of Ghana will be celebrating »

& So it continues- all around the world same song. Mario Balotelli AKA Super Mario is no stranger to racism, particularly from his fellow Italians who have made it well known throughout the world that he will never be one of them no matter »

Here we go again. I doubt anyone on the African continent or elsewhere is surprised that the AU (African Union) could not come to any solutions or resolutions in getting any closer to tackling one of Africa’s greatest crisis- The Congo. When was the last »

As it has been said “Music is for Life”, without music where would the world be? The late great Nigerian Fela Anikulapo Ransome Kuti declared “Music is a weapon”! A weapon so powerful that extremist are going to the extremes to stop it in Mali. »

As we celebrate Martin Luther King Day today -we remember the power, light, inspiration and education of his words
“If any of you are around when I have to meet my day, I don’t want a long funeral. And if you get »

Are You Ready for Some Football? While Most Americans are preparing for the Super bowl in  the football that somehow does not use the foot; Africa/Africans are set to meet in South Africa for their own Super bowl of the best of the best in »

“Recent high growth rates and increased foreign investment in Africa have given rise to the popular idea that the continent may well be on track to become the next global economic powerhouse. This “Africa Rising” narrative has been most prominently presented in recent cover »