“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,…
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Femi Bankole Osunla- Nigerian Photographer -The M.O.P & Fela’s Inside Man
Global Fusion Playlist: @The Movies: Ones To Watch: Getting To Know Sam Kessie & Africa’s Greatest Boxer- Azumah Nelson
If you do not know that there is an exploding African film industry that is second to Bollywood & tops Hollywood in the number of films produced every year, then you need to get out from under your local…
more »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…
more »Global Fusion Playlist:@The Movies-” Marley “- the Bob Marley Documentary
“The opening shot of the film will feature a tour of Cape Coast Castle, a fortification in Ghana that contains the infamous “Door of No Return” through which many Africans passed before being shipped into slavery. I want to suggest…
more »Maya Angelou Debunking Ghana’s Global Legacy as Africa’s First!
May Angelou is a great American poet, civil rights activist, dancer, film producer, television producer, playwright, film director, author, actress, professor, global treasure & champion of Ghana, so I know in debunking the myth of Ghana being the first African nation…
more »Egypt & Ghana- African Unification or the Legacy of Egypt’s African Identity Problem?
Today the African nation of Egypt started a new path to freedom by forcing the resignation of the 30 year reign of yet another African despot who refused to leave & allow a democratic government for the people…
more »Are African-American Investors Missing the Boat On the New Global Scramble for Africa?
Imagine a Magic Johnson Theater in Nigeria,Ghana or South Africa, the nations leading the boom in the African film industry? Imagine going to a news stand in Africa & seeing African editions of Essence, The Source,
Global Fusion Playlist:2011 Global Hip-Hop Game Changers:Shadia Mansour,Naeto C, Baloji, JJC, M3NSA,
As Atlantic Records launches its “game changers” video featuring Janelle Monae, Estelle, B.O.B & Lupe Fiasco, global hip-hop is taking over with its own game changers who maybe under your radar, but are quickly taking over the hip-hop game…
more »Ghana’s Black Stars & Nigeria’s Super Eagles: From The World Cup To The Super Bowl
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…
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