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GlobalFusionPlaylist: Running Away & Crazy Baldhead -Bob Marley

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 .

I watched a

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L’Uomo Vogue Presents May/June All Africa issue.

L’Uomo Vogue Presents May/June All Africa issue.

We are at the point again in Africa -post colonialism- where Africa/Africans seem to be charging forward in a new era of the wind of change that will once again re-brand Africa/Africans not only to the world at…

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GlobalFusionPlaylist: @The Movies -Africans In The Diaspora Stories- Restless City, African Booty Scratcher, Bronx Princess and Prince of Broadway

GlobalFusionPlaylist: @The Movies -Africans In The Diaspora Stories- Restless City, African Booty Scratcher, Bronx Princess and Prince of Broadway

I was brought to think about my life as an African in the Diaspora a few weeks ago after I had an unvited engagement of words and looks with a Black American woman in a store, much like the restaurant…

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Celebrating The Future -Ghana @ 55-Daughters of Yaa Asantewaa Rising! Ones To Watch in 2012

Celebrating The Future -Ghana @ 55-Daughters of Yaa Asantewaa Rising! Ones To Watch in 2012

In honor of Ghana’s 55th year of Independence and women’s history month we honor and celebrate the daughters of Yaa Asentwaa- the image makers and global African powerhouses representing the future of the Black Star Nation of Ghana…

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Don’t Call Me African…The Cries & Crisis of Lost Africans Continues

Don’t Call Me African…The Cries & Crisis of Lost Africans Continues

As Dr. Kwame Nkrumah said: “I am not African because I was born in Africa, but because Africa was born in me.”

When I see articles like “Some blacks insist: ‘I’m not African-American & “Beyoncé L’Oreal ad

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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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Vogue Italia Editor Franca Sozzani Gets Introduced To Authentic African Fashion From Ghana, West Africa’s Own Kofi Ansah & WEB

Vogue Italia Editor Franca Sozzani Gets Introduced To Authentic African Fashion From Ghana, West Africa’s Own Kofi Ansah  & WEB

With all things Africa being the “new black” in global fashion, once again Vogue Italia’s Editor in Cheif, Franca Sozzani dared to do what her counterparts Black, White or other alike do not do. Franca Sozzani recently took an explorational…

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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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A Global Fusion Christmas…Christmas All Over The World!

May we all enjoy the season as we give & receive. May we not forget the meaning of the season in reflection, celebration & honor of the birth of Christ. To all of our Global Fusionists who do not celebrate…

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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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