2010 Marks the 50th anniversary of Independence in 17 African nations, setting the stage for Africa as a continent to look deep within our history, to wake up & to make this decade Africa’s decade of fulfilling the change that was to come with independence. There was something in the air in 1960, a leap [...]

As I praise Vogue Italia’s launch of the Vogue Black & Vogue Curvy websites as a step in the right direction, I also SMH that the global fashion industry still just doesn’t get it. We are not looking for Jim Crowe Days of “Separate but Equal”, but rather a time in our global society that [...]

As Black history month is nearing its close in the shortest month of the year, I found myself engulfed in debates & really looking at Black history- past & present from Africa to the Diaspora. I went to a film screening of Fangafrika: The Voice of the Voiceless, which is a look at African underground [...]

I can’t believe I am saying these words, but for the first time in my life I must say Jay Z speaks for me. He is very on point on his “We Are the World” critique. “A for effort, but come on son”! All I could think when I saw the video, after the endless [...]

It seems the Democratic party is in full spiral, not knowing left from right , public option from insurance company control, wall street bailouts from main street job creations, and fighting from conceding & throwing in the towel.
It seems the democrats are not ready, willing or able to take on the fight to [...]

I decided to write this piece after seeing this picture, shot for the Associated Press by Schalk van Zuydam, of Winnie Mandela sadly looking on as her ex-husband, Nelson Mandela, interacts in unison with his new wife, Graca Machel. This picture saddens me dearly as I recall an interview with a vibrant Winnie Mandela on [...]

For me Africa , Ghana in particular, will always represent my beginning & my future. As I go back to my beginnings to reach out for my future, I realized that I am a stranger in this land, in this land that I love, in this land of mine. Ghana is the rapture of nature, [...]

By now everyone knows about John Mayer’s Playboy interview and the on going uproar over it. I didn’t want to bother to comment because John Mayer has become more tabloid fodder than the talented low key musician we used to know, and frankly I would rather pay attention to talent than the countless tabloid [...]

“In the future as the world of Africa & the West mate more & more into the totality of world culture, the creative strength of the African personality, which is evident in tribal sculpture, will contribute far more profoundly to human fulfillment than can yet be imagined” Dr. Kwame Nkrumah- 1966
In this new decade [...]

Puma,the trend setting athletic footwear brand, continues to think out of the box while setting the trends for all to follow. In celebration of the upcoming World Cup, to be held on African soil for the first time in world cup history, Puma has commissioned world renown contemporary portraitist, Kehinde Wiley, to create four portraits [...]