Month: July 2020

Education

Why Sub-Saharan African Immigrants to America Are the Most Educated
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By Joshua Eferighe | OZY

Growing up, Thomas Adetomiwa wasn’t too keen on his dad’s origin story of how he got to the U.S. from Nigeria. He’d often tell Adetomiwa how his acceptance into the University of Houston meant that he’d be the first person in their family to come to America, and how he had to simultaneously work four jobs while sending money back home to his grandmother and brothers. 

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Entertainment

Africans complain about depiction of continent by Beyoncé in video celebrating ‘African tradition.’
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By Danielle Paquette | The Washington Post

Grace Bassey is tired of the outdated way African countries are often portrayed on American screens. So when the trailer for Beyoncé’s new visual album emerged on Twitter with imagery Bassey found stereotypical — face paint, feathers, animal skins — the Nigerian college student responded with images of highways, skyscrapers and yachts.

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Uncategorized

Meet the richest African immigrants in America
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By Ebimo Amungo

The richest Blackman in America may not be Robert Smith, Oprah Winfrey or Micheal Jordan as has long been thought of, rather, he may be a Harvard trained lawyer from Nigeria called Adebayo Ogunlesi. But even Ogunlesi is not the richest African immigrant in America. That distinction is held by South African-born Elon Musk and his countryman Patrick Soon-Shiong who are both multi-billionaires.

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Sports

Derrick Otim : English-born Ghanaian Footballer drowns in Lake Keowee in South Carolina
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by Dave Fraser | The Sun

FORMER Nottingham Forest star Derrick Otim has died aged 24. The English-born Ghanaian star drowned in Lake Keowee in South Carolina, USA – say reports in America.

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Communities

The role Somali-Americans are playing in standing against systemic racism
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Home to the largest Somali community in the country, Minnesota Somali-Americans have played a pivotal role in taking a stand against systemic racism in the weeks following the death of George Floyd.

This report by CBS sheds light on their collective action.

Source CBS

Immigration

From Angola to America: Ana’s Journey From Nothing to Nowhere
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By Pedro Cardoso | Elephant

On 18 April, for fear of creating hotbeds of COVID 19 contagion, a Mexico City judge ordered the release of migrants from sixty-five overcrowded immigration centres in the country. By the end of that month, with both the northern and southern border lines under lockdown, the Mexican National Migration Institute (INM) estimated that over twenty thousand migrants were now stranded around border lines; under the lockdown, even appointments to identify refugees are suspended. Among those now either living in makeshift camps or left to their own devices in the country are an estimated four thousand Africans.

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Immigration

Kwame Asante: Ghanaian joins other immigrants in Drive-thru ceremony to become American citizens
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by Steve Hartman | CBS

In America, you can get almost anything in a drive-thru – now, including one very happy spiel: The oath of allegiance to become a U.S. citizen.

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Achievements, Appointments

Caroline Adzogble : Ghanaian educationist appointed ambassador for Millersville University, Pennsylvania
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By Myjoyonline   

Millersville University in Pennsylvania, USA, has appointed Ghanaian educationist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Caroline Esinam Adzogble as an ambassador. This comes on the heels of the institution’s quest to boost their marketing and recruitment efforts to increase and diversify the multicultural numbers.

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Communities

Isak Abdirahman Aden | Family of Somali-American killed by police files lawsuit
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By Randy Furst | Star Tribune

The family of a Somali American man who was shot to death during a multicity SWAT operation in Eagan a year ago has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging that the shooting was unjustified and that the man was targeted because he was a racial minority.

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Uncategorized

Bentzy Goldman : South African tech entrepreneur suggests ways to make Tulsa a part of ‘start-up land.
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By Michael Overall | Tulsa World

Bentzy Goldman wanted to leave South Africa to start a new business in the United States, where investors and customers would both be easier to find. But where exactly in America?

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Politics

Kojo Asamoa-Caesar: Meet the first Ghanaian-American to run for U.S. Congress
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By myjoyonline

Kojo Asamoa-Caesar has become the first Ghanaian-American to be nominated by a major American political party to run for the U.S Congress. The first-generation American won the nomination of the Democratic Party in the primaries for Oklahoma’s First Congressional District, Tulsa, and is set to challenge Republican party incumbent, Kevin Hern, in the general elections.

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Uncategorized

Masai Ujiri: Toronto Raptors General Manager visits Africa with NBA trophy to inspire a new generation
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Nigerian-born Massai Ujiri made history with the Toronto Raptors when he became the first African General Manager to win the NBA in 2019. He returned to the continent to present the trophy to his parents and former basketball coach, Oliver B. Johnson and also inspire a new generation of players in his long running basketball camp across several African countries.

This video from HBO tells the story.

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Sports

Makur Maker : Kenyan-born South Sudanese chooses Howard University to continue career
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BY JERRY BEMBRY | The Undefeated

It was seen as somewhat of a tease when Makur Maker made a recruitment visit to Howard University last fall, before shifting into a serious discussion: What if a five-star recruit opted to play college basketball at a historically Black university?

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Opinion

Hassan Mead | Somalian-born runner Speaks Up About the Racism He’s Dealt With Since Coming to the U.S. 21 Years Ago
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By HASSAN MEAD AS TOLD TO TAYLOR DUTCH| Runner’s World

When I heard stories about America, growing up as a farmer’s kid living in Somalia, it was always nothing but good things. So when I learned our family was moving there, I thought I was moving to a paradise where no one suffers and everyone lives their best lives.

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Communities

How Remittances From Africans in Petit Senegal in New York Builds Wealth Abroad
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 by Tareian King for John Campbell | Center for Foreign Relations

The African diaspora sends more money to Africa than U.S. foreign aid and foreign direct investment. In 2018, sub-Saharan Africa received $25 billion in development assistance. In that same year, immigrants in the United States sent $46 billion in remittances to their home countries in Africa, out of a total of $150 billion sent from the United States globally.

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Music

Sho Madjozi: South African Star Signs to Epic Records in USA
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By SAPeople

Crowned “a new kind of global pop star” by The New York Times, award-winning South African rap disruptor Sho Madjozi has officially signed to Epic Records. She joins the label’s esteemed roster as the only South African act in North America.

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Uncategorized

Abdi Nor Iftin: A Somali immigrant hopes his book for young adults will inspire others to tell their story
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By Victoria Zhuang | Boston Globe

As a young man fleeing violence and civil war in his native Somalia, Abdi Nor Iftin dreamed of a magnificent future in America. In 2014, after years of stateless limbo in Kenya, he won the Diversity Visa lottery, a program that offers a limited number of visas to applicants from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. His 2018 memoir “Call Me American” describes his experiences resettling in the United States.

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Uncategorized

Olanike “Nike” Adebayo: Nigerian-American seeks to be judge of Miami-Dade County, Florida
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Nigerian-American, Olanike “Nike” Adebayo is seeking to be a circuit judge in Maimi Dade county in Florida. Adebayo who is the assistant regional counsel attorney with the Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel in Miami will be facing off against Joseph Perkins of Garbett, Allen & Roza in Miami for Miami-Dade Circuit Judge, Group 55.

Meet the candidates

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Opinion

How George Floyd’s death united Africans and African-Americans
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African immigrants have not always felt at home in African-American communities. Black Lives Matter protests may be changing that.

By Anthony Akaeze  | Christian Science Monitor

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Opinion

The World Builds a Wall to Keep America Out
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By Farhad Manjoo | The New York Times

You might call it poetic, if it weren’t so painful. Donald Trump won the White House largely on a campaign of shutting America’s borders to pretty much everyone other than people of European descent. “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” he once asked, about Haitians, Salvadorans and Africans. “We should have more people from places like Norway.”

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Achievements

Nigerians, Somalian, Rwandan and Ghanaian among recipients of Canada’s Vanier and Banting Awards
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By Ebimo Amungo

Four Nigerians, a Somalian, a Ghanaian and a Rwandan are among researchers announced as the 2020-2021 recipients of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships and Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships, Canada’s most prized awards for PhD students and postdoctoral fellows, respectively.

Vanier Scholarships are valued at $50,000 per year for three years during doctoral studies, while Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships are worth $70,000 per year for two years.

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