Month: July 2020

Music

Richardine Bartee: A Woman on a mission to put African Music on world…
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By Ayo Onikoyi | Vanguard

New York-based African-American music/lifestyle blogger of Liberian descent, Richardine Bartee for more than ten years since she founded her GRUNGECAKE blog site has been astute and committed to the affairs of emerging artistes. Not only in the Americas and Canada, but also Africa, a continent she has described as the future hub of music and emerging great talents.

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Opinion

Amid Major Transformations, Africa Will Play An Important Role In Shaping the Future
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by Michelle Gavin | CFR

From the dismal domestic disarray that continues to sicken and kill Americans across the country to the dysfunction at the UN Security Council and brittle fractures in international cooperation, it is easy to get discouraged about the state of the world and America’s place in it. But the future provides an opportunity to rethink tired approaches, reimagine international relationships, and pivot toward a policy agenda that meets the challenges of climate change, democratic erosion, widening inequality and metastasizing violence. That rethink requires a reckoning with the African continent, not as a venue for competition with China or proxy conflict, but as an increasingly consequential force in shaping the future.

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African Food

Ola Bello |African queen offers a royal feast at Flavors Nigerian
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by Faiyaz Kara  | Orlando Weekly

There’s a scene in No Passport Required where chef Marcus Samuelsson and Patricia Nyan, chef-owner of Suya Hut in Houston, talk about the importance of suya. The spice rub, originating from predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria, is made from peanuts and chili peppers and used to marinate grilled beef and chicken in Nigerian cookery.

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Achievements

Dr. Theo Nyame | Ghanaian-born Plastic Surgeon named 2020 Top Doctor Award winner by Charlotte Magazine
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By Ebimo Amungo

Dr. Theo Nyame, a Ghanaian-born Plastic Surgeon has been named one of the honorees of the Top Doctor Award by Charlotte Magazine. This is the second year in a row that the Harvard Medical School trained doctor has been named Top Plastic Surgeon in the Charlotte area by the magazine.

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Sports

Major League Cricket signs two South Africans
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By Nate Hays | Emerging Cricket

USA Cricket and ACE’s Major League Cricket have a couple of new professional signings from South Africa in Willem Ludick and Carmi Le Roux. The announcement was made this week by their representation: The Sporting Agents, via Instagram and YouTube.

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Immigration

African immigrant group fears defunding amid turmoil and government inaction | CBC News
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2 groups claim to run African Diaspora Association of the Maritimes, but Liberals won’t say who’s legitimate

By Jon Tattrie  |  CBC News 

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Naijalife | New online Marketplace Allows African Diaspora to Get a Taste of Home
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By MENAFN

Africans can now relish the taste of home even while being abroad. Naijalife Magazine USA has launched an online marketplace that allows customers to source commodities from home at market prices.

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Entertainment

Netflix’s first original Egyptian movie is ready
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Egyptian Director Amr Salama has announced that the filming of the series “Ma Waraa al-Tabeea” (The Paranormal) wrapped up on Saturday, July 18.

Publishing a picture of the show’s clapperboard on his official Instagram page, Salama wrote: “In these difficult circumstances, it’s a wrap!”.

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Entertainment

John Boyega Has No Interest In Returning To Star Wars
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BY AYA MILLER | Screen Rant

Star Wars fans won’t be seeing British-Nigerian John Boyega in the franchise anytime soon as The Rise of Skywalker star has admitted he’s moving on. Boyega served a prominent role in the sequel trilogy as stormtrooper turned Resistance fighter, Finn. 

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Opinion

To the Kids Back Home in Congo
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BY JONATHAN KUMINGA | The Player Tribune

To All the Kids Back Home in Congo,

Even though I’ve been in the States for five years, Congo is never far from my mind and it’s always in my heart. It’s actually really difficult for me to put my feelings about home into words. But I did have to study my butt off for years to get my English on point, so I’m at least gonna try.

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African Food

Serigne Mbaye | Chef Plans to Bring Senegalese Cooking to Louisiana
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BY TODD A. PRICE | The USA Today Network

Senegal’s flavors and one-pot cooking gave us gumbo, jambalaya and Hoppin’ John, but why aren’t we savoring the originals, says Serigne Mbaye, a young chef born in Harlem but raised in Senegal. Why isn’t Senegalese food as revered as the cooking of France and Italy?

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Opinion

The Blindspot : Owning my African Privilege in a racialized America
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By Ehui Osei-Mensah | black African woman

Before I moved to America, I was simply Ehui Nyatepe-Coo. Truthfully, other qualifiers preceded me thanks to my parents’ professional and social networks, the school I attended and occasionally by my academic achievements. I don’t remember ever being referred to by ethnic group though, which is a common identifier in Ghana.

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Achievements

Kika Otiono receives praise from Nigeria’s High Commissioner for academic performance at Carleton University
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By Gregory Austin Nwakunor | The Guardian

Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Canada, Ambassador Adeyinka Asekun, has commended Kika Otiono, daughter of prominent Nigerian author and professor, Nduka Otiono, for her sterling academic accomplishments while at Carleton University. Otiono received a third-year undergraduate offer of admission to the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University and is now a first year medical student there.

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Maya Horgan-Famodu | The Nigerian-American founder of venture capital firm, Ingressive Capital
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BY TOM JACKSON | Disrupt Africa

Nigerian-American Maya Horgan-Famodu always knew she wanted to run an Africa-focused VC firm. Yet the route she took in the end was a roundabout one. Horgan-Famodu is founder of VC firm Ingressive Capital, which invests in pre-seed and seed-stage tech-enabled businesses in the B2B space in Africa. The company averages US$200,000 to US$400,000 ticket sizes and targets 10 per cent ownership into companies it funds. 

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African Food

Ethiopian Tradition for the Vegan-Curious, at Ras Plant Based
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At Romeo and Milka Regalli’s Crown Heights restaurant, vegan proteins stand in for meats, and tangy, fermented injera soaks up sauces spiked with traditional berbere spice or puckery lime.

By Hannah Goldfield | The New Yorker

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African Food

Where to Find the Best Ethiopian Food around Boston Right Now
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by JACQUELINE CAIN | The Boston Magazine

According to Lettensa Afeworki, owner of Asmara Restaurant in Cambridge, Ethiopian cuisine is a kind of “friendship food.” Who could disagree? There’s something special about sitting around a communal basket to share colorful stews—more nuanced in their savory-spiciness than strictly fiery—that are long-simmered with aromatics and spices, like the signature blend, berbere. And of course, no meal is complete without injera, the fermented flatbread used to scoop up each morsel of flavor. Still, from tender-braised lamb to crisp-fried sambusas and plenty of vegetarian fare, Ethiopian cooking offers plenty of hearty, flavorful options for solo takeout (and leftovers), too. From Roxbury to Malden, here is where to order the best Ethiopian food right now.

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Arts

Dawit N.M | Photographer, director draws on Ethiopian, Virginian roots in Chrysler exhibition
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By DENISE M. WATSON | THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 

Even when he isn’t thinking as a photographer, Dawit N.M. knows how important it is to be seen.

Not looked at. Seen.

His photo of two girls playing in a street in Ethiopia, shyly hiding their faces in matching pink hoodies, is a portrait of innocence and youth. It isn’t one of starvation, death and calamity, which are often associated with the country in which Dawit was born.

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Immigration

376 Nigerians have been asked to leave USA by ICE this year
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By Faderera Falade | NaijaNews

The United States government has ordered 370 Nigerians to leave the country this year after breaking immigration laws.

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Business

Silicon Valley has deep pockets for African startups – if you’re not African
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American venture capital and private equity is dominating Africa, but it’s mostly funding other white foreign founders as black entrepreneurs struggle to raise financing.

By Larry Madowo in New York | The Guardian

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Opinion

Who is black in America? Ethnic tensions flare between black Americans and black immigrants.
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The everyday experience of the Black man has been brought to focus by recent happenings in America. This age of the Black Lives Matter movement has brought to fore the question of who is black in America. This article published in October 2018 spotlighted the growing tension between African-Americans who are descended from slaves and black Americans immigrants with a different heritage.

by Valerie Russ   | Philadelphia Inquirer

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Nneka Egbujiobi : The Attorney Who Created The Newest Dating App to connect African diaspora
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By Omose Ighodaro | Afro Vibes

The dream started in 2018 for Nneka Egbujiobi: “One night, I was sitting at home reading a few DMs that were sent to me but I wasn’t intrigued. I then thought, wouldn’t it be nice if there was a platform for the African community where we could select the type of people we wished to date?” Egbujiobi’s initial peevishness toward the unwelcome DMs (direct messages) led her to invent an app that would help Africans in the diaspora to create beneficial connections.

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Education

2 Somali-Americans Become Public School Principals In Minnesota For The 1st Time
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By SARAH MCCAMMON | NPR

The state of Minnesota is home to the largest Somali population in the United States, tens of thousands of people, many of whom were refugees from civil war. Today, we’re talking with two of them who are making history. Abdirizak Abdi and Akram Osman are the first Somali public school principals in Minnesota. That’s according to the Sahan Journal, which reports about immigrants in the state. They both just started on the job, which means first figuring out how to do it in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Communities

Oromo | Hundreds rally in Edmonton to ask Canada to take a stance against the Ethiopian government
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By Galen McDougall | CTV News Edmonton

Over 300 people joined a global day of protest against the Ethiopian government Friday at the Alberta Legislature. They say the current government has been targeting the Indigineous population of Ethiopia, the Oromo, through arbitrary detention, torture and kidnappings.

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Communities

US Oromos Protest Singer Hachalu’s Killing in Ethiopia
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By Tigist Geme | VOA

Only a few weeks after the slaying of a popular singer in Ethiopia, thousands took to the streets in diaspora communities in the United States and elsewhere to mourn his death and peacefully protest the government in Addis Ababa.

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Achievements, Immigration

2020 Great American Immigrants Awards | Eight Africans named among honorees by Carnegie Corporation of New York
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By Ebimo Amungo

The Carnegie Corporation of New York has released its annual list of Great American Immigrants and among the 2020 awardees are eight African immigrants born in Nigeria, Eritrea, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Sudan and Ghana, as well as a Canadian born by Ghanaian parents.

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Issues

Ime Archibong | As Facebook’s unofficial Black leader, the Nigerian-American is pursuing racial justice while seeking the next big thing
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By Salvador Rodriguez | CNBC

Nigerian-American Ime Archibong plays a unique role in Mark Zuckerberg’s orbit.

For nearly a decade, Zuckerberg has turned to Archibong any time he’s come up with ideas for special projects at Facebook. Archibong is also Zuckerberg’s point person in dealing with third-party developers. Outside of the office, the two executives are running buddies. 

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Opal Tometi | Nigerian-American co-founder of Black Lives Matter says organisation was designed to be a Global Movement
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BLM founder Opal Tometi always intended for the diaspora to come together in fighting anti-Black racism.

By Chanté Joseph | VICE

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Immigration

We Can’t Talk About Immigration without Acknowledging Black Immigrants
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BY KOVIE BIAKOLO  | Yes! Magazine

This year, New York City celebrates the centennial of the Harlem Renaissance, the cultural movement that helped shape the intellectual, artistic, and social life of Black people. Before the coronavirus pandemic that shut down the city, cultural events and musical tributes had been held and were planned in Harlem, the neighborhood that characterized and gave the era its name.

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Education

Navigating the Self: African Student Experiences in U.S. Higher Education
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By Wei-Ting Shih  | The Politic

E pluribus unum. Out of many, one. This motto is not only engraved in the Great Seal of the United States, but also in the spirit of the country. For decades, the U.S. has prided itself in being a land built by immigrants; in being a land where individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds have been able to unite and work together towards greatness. The nation’s status as a cultural melting pot has not only been praised as an asset, but has also been seen as a defining characteristic.

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Opinion

Does Black Lives Matter apply to African immigrants as well?
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I came to the U.S. from Burundi after being tortured. But more restrictive immigration policies are making it harder for folks like me to seek asylum.

Come Nzibarega | USAToday

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