GLOBAL CONNECTIONS

Moments in Global Fusion: Africans Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop:Cape Town’s ‘Ghetto Ballerina’ lands U.S. Scholarship

Moments in Global Fusion: Africans Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop:Cape Town’s ‘Ghetto Ballerina’ lands U.S. Scholarship

As much as the world is rushing into Africa in a new global scramble for Africa. Africans are also bringing their authentic flavor to the world at large. As Nigerian Recording artist Nneka says “I am here

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Women’s Under 20 World Cup Finals: Nigeria’s Women Prove That The Pride & Future of Nigeria Rests With Them!

Women’s Under 20 World Cup Finals: Nigeria’s Women Prove That The Pride & Future of Nigeria Rests With Them!

With little fanfare & no national broadcasting in the USA, unless you are one of the few who know the internet sites to catch it on, very few may know that FIFA’s Under 20 Women’s World Cup is being…

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Global Africans on The Rise: David Agbodji-Calvin Klein’s New Model

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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Moments in Africa’s True Global Fusions: Bamboo Bike Collaboration Between Ghana & USA & Russia Elects Its First Black Politician.

Moments in Africa’s True Global Fusions: Bamboo Bike Collaboration Between Ghana & USA & Russia Elects Its First Black Politician.

Global Fusion for me is our global interaction, commonalty & connections fused into globally local beneficial respect & progress. Below are two wonderful examples of that.

Whereas Africans/Africa has always been “green” in utilizing its natural resources by making due…

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Does Democracy in Africa Work or Is It Time To Look to Our Homegrown Form Of Governance?

I have been waiting for Africans & our leaders to have a real discussion on governance & the fact that the adopted Democracy in Africa has not worked for most of Africa. Oluwole Onemola wrote a provocative & thoughtful…

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WHO DEFINES UR BLACKNESS? More black publications hire white fashion directors & we are still asking why young black children still choose the white doll over the black doll.

WHO DEFINES UR BLACKNESS? More black publications hire white fashion directors & we are still asking why young black children still choose the white doll over the black doll.

Black tells you how you look, but it doesn’t tell you who you are” -John Henrik Clarke.
It seems there are some Black Publication who are riding this quote without getting its intended message.  Just because Black just tells…

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GLOBAL DIVIDE IN THE FIGHT FOR LAND : EVERYONE WANTS THEIR PROMISED LAND

As I watched the documentary the “Promised Land” on PBS a few weeks ago, I was reminded how there needs to be a global dialogue on the worldwide divide, infighting & wars over land; whether it is Palestinians against…

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Nigerian Parents Give Birth To A Blonde Hair/ Blue Eyed Baby Girl in London

Nigerian Parents Give Birth To A Blonde Hair/ Blue Eyed Baby Girl in London

All I could think of when I read the story entitled “Blond Bombshell” about a blonde hair/ blue eyed baby born to dark skinned Nigerian parents was there must be something up with the water in Britain that not…

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The Sherrod Massacre! So Much For The So Called Post Racial America & Change We can Believe In

The Sherrod Massacre! So Much For The So Called Post Racial America & Change We can Believe In

Maybe calling the miscarriage of justice, the defamation of a great woman of American history & the deliberate vilification of yet another African-American in the Obama Administration a massacre is going too far, but that’s the way the right-wing ultra…

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ATHLETES GONE BROKE: WHY HAVING MILLIONS WITHOUT BUSINESS ACUMEN CAN LEAVE YOU BROKE!

ATHLETES GONE BROKE: WHY HAVING MILLIONS WITHOUT BUSINESS ACUMEN CAN LEAVE YOU BROKE!

The richest man is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least.” Rev. Run
It is beyond amazing to me how many millionaire athletes go broke, but then again I am really…

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