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Wanlov the Kubolor on the streets of Accra with local Kubolors
M3NSA at Joy FM in Accra Ghana-2008- predicting the American elections live on air!
Mutombo:Ghanaian Poet recites original poem written for Lucky Dube outside of The Office in Ghana!
Black Prophet on the Streets of Osu- Ghana, West Africa
Reggie Rockstone & muMs on the streets of Accra, Ghana -Freestyle
Wanlov the Kubolor -Acapella Ghana @50 at Legon
The Sankofa Project-A Return To Get It!
The Sankofa Project is the reconciliation between Africans & their Diasporan Brothers & sisters. It is our return home in getting to know one another thru our shared history, differences & commonalities. A dialogue &…
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When Africans say “Africa is the future”, it is not just words & fantasy, rather a destiny manifested thru the will and determination of everyday people determined to seek opportunity where government & leaders have…
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Femi Bankole Osunla- Nigerian Photographer -The M.O.P & Fela’s Inside Man
“The photographs of Femi Bankole Osunla has introduced countless people to the beauty of Afro Beat as an art. His ability to capture performances and intimate moments of the maverick Fela Anikulapo Kuti during the golden age of Afro Beat,…
March 2011: L’Officiel Paris Takes Beyonce Back To Her African Roots in Black Face?
Ok where do I start but to say this is getting so old that there is no way anyone including Beyonce, even if she is really dumb as rocks wouldn’t have known that this would be offensive or at the…
Fashionably Black: A Celebration of Global African Flyness!
It seems there’s always so much press, uproar & hoopla when some crazy ass editor lacking creativity & vision decides to geniusly put White models in Black face in a by any means necessary desperate attempt to sell…
Global Fusion Style : Artistic Men Who Show Their Fashionable Love for Women, Mcqueen, Ford, Tlale!
Sometimes only a man can dress a woman & most of the time a gay man does it best. For all of you heteros who wonder why so many women love & covet their gay male friends …well it’s for…
Celebrating The Black Girls Who Taught Me How To Rock!
Reminiscing & missing the Black Star nation, I indulged in conversation with my elders AKA seniors as they told stories of the days when they lived in the same complex as Meriam Makeba- African immigrants looking for the American dream…
Made In Africa: Taking Back Our Culture-Where The Fruit Meets Its Roots!
It seems that Africa in general & African designers in particular are finally realizing that culture vultureism has gotten out of control, to a point where we have blindly lost our culture by having it be defined & redefined from…
Made In Africa: Protecting The African Textile Industry!
As Nigeria, Africa’s richest & most populous nation embarks on its 50th Anniversary of Independence on October 1st , Nigerians & the rest of Africa should stand up to their governments that have allowed foreign investment…
Africa: See You, See Me! Photo Exhibit -Global Tour
Africa See Me, See You! is a photography exhibit curated by NYU’s Director of Africana Studies & Tisch School’s Associate Professor of Drama, Dr. Awam Amkpa. In efforts to create an open dialogue, Africa: See You, See Me! has brought…
Africans On The Rise: Nigerian Designer Bunmi Olaye Commisioned By Firts Lady Michelle Obama?
With confidence & a plan anything can happen! Bunmi Olaye, the Nigerian born English designer of the Bunmi Koko label is the embodiment of that truth to power as she took the initiative toward her dreams instead of…
Global Africans on The Rise: David Agbodji-Calvin Klein’s New Model
It seems like everyone wants a peice of Africa, but I can’t blame them when it comes in a package like 23 year old David Agbodji, the newly crowned Calvin Klein model of Togolese decent. The Bronx maybe…
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GlobalFusionPlaylist: Running Away & Crazy Baldhead -Bob Marley
There will always be someone who has it better or worse than us all. As Bob Marley said “Every man thinks his burden is the heaviest …Who feels it knows it not ” #CountYourBlessings .
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Amber Rose In Ghana- Feeding The Children-REALLY?
It seems like so many media outlets picked up on Amber Rose’s not so discrete twitter photo opp. in the guise of a humanitarian venture in Ghana, as she quickly blasted a photo of her with some children in…
While You Were Watching The Throne-The Revolution Was Being Televised & Missed
While everyone & their momma was praising Kanye & Jay Z’s new album, the rest of the world was getting messed up & fighting for our lives. Once again the internets were all a flutter over the release of…
Music Is A Weapon : Jay Z & Kanye West Drop “Otis”
By now we have all been bombarded on the internets with yet another so called “Highly Anticipated Album” from Jay & Ye! Well the album entitled “Watch The Throne” is still not out & is allegedly going to…
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