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Black Stars @AfricaCupofNations + Giants @SuperBowl in an Election Year…Back Down Memory Lane

Black Stars @AfricaCupofNations + Giants @SuperBowl in an Election Year…Back Down Memory Lane

2008 was the year, the full circle year of transition played out in the fantastic realities of my life & the sports teams of the two nations of my birth &  foundation. After being “off the cuffly” told by one…

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Samia Nkrumah -Like Father Like Daughter? Ghana 2012 Elections Getting Hot,Hot,Hot!

Samia Nkrumah -Like Father Like Daughter? Ghana 2012 Elections Getting Hot,Hot,Hot!

By now most know that Samia Nkrumah has become one of Africa’s new darlings for the future of women in politics. With the polarizing Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, the former first lady & founder of the 31st

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What Exactly Is New African Fashion?

What Exactly Is New African Fashion?

I attended the panel discussion on Helen Jennings’s book New African Fashion” at the New York Public library the other night. As a great fan of Ghanaian designer Mimi Plange , Somali

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Wunmi From ALA (African Living Abroad) To The Future of the Global African Supershero

Wunmi From ALA (African Living Abroad) To The Future of the Global African Supershero

If there is a time more than ever when our little girls need a supershero from Africa to her Diaspora..it surely is Now. Issues from colorism, racism, sexism & all of our many global isms, skisms  etc. &…

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Mac Tontoh -Legendary Hi-Life Musician Remembered By Friends & Fellow Legends of Hi-Life Music

Mac Tontoh -Legendary Hi-Life Musician Remembered By Friends & Fellow Legends of Hi-Life Music

On November 12, 2011 while visiting Ghana, I was delighted to attend a free tribute concert at Citizen Kofi in Osu dedicated to the memory of Hi-Life Music Legend Mac Tontoh- formerly of globally recognized mega Hi-Life bands…

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Who Run The World…The Noble Peace Prize Channels Its Inner Beyonce!

Who Run The World…The Noble Peace Prize Channels Its Inner Beyonce!

The “tofo tofo” dance was probably saved for the private after party where Liberia’s own President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf & Leymah Gbowee will surely lead the way in bringing Tawakul Karman, the first Arab woman Nobel Peace…

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Leila Lopes- Why Is It So Hard To Accept The Universe Being Represented By An African Image?

Leila Lopes- Why Is It So Hard To Accept The Universe Being Represented By An African Image?

While global Africans all over the world cheered as the Miss Universe Pageant crowned their first Angolan Miss Universe,  fourth Black Miss Universe & second continental African Miss Universe, it seems there were many others who were

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Africans in Europe- Running out of Luck

Africans in Europe- Running out of Luck

I have been watching the Al Jeezera documentary series “Surprising Europe” for awhile now & unfortunately I am far from surprised at most of the stories. What I am mostly surprised at is the comments by everyday people &…

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David Adjaye-Young, Gifted & Black Star- Africans on the Rise

David Adjaye-Young, Gifted & Black Star- Africans on the Rise

When many think about the world of high profile architecture & architects, African names rarely come to mind, but David Adjaye, a Tanzanian-born British architect of Ghanaian descent has single handedly changed the scope of that vision & thinking…

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Waiting For Saviors Outside Ourselves: Wake UP Call To Global Africans

Waiting For Saviors Outside Ourselves: Wake UP Call To Global Africans

Today is President Obama’s 50th birthday – a celebration of a half a century of life in freedom, a freedom celebrated in years that are a little less than the one celebrated by many nations in Africa in

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