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.
Continue reading “Why Sub-Saharan African Immigrants to America Are the Most Educated”
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Grace Bassey is tired of the outdated way African countries are often portrayed on American screens.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.
Continue reading “Africans complain about depiction of continent by Beyoncé in video celebrating ‘African tradition.’”
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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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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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.
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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.
Continue reading “From Angola to America: Ana’s Journey From Nothing to Nowhere”
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.
Continue reading “Kwame Asante: Ghanaian joins other immigrants in Drive-thru ceremony to become American citizens”
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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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.
Continue reading “Isak Abdirahman Aden | Family of Somali-American killed by police files lawsuit”
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?
Continue reading “Bentzy Goldman : South African tech entrepreneur suggests ways to make Tulsa a part of ‘start-up land.”
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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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.
Continue reading “Masai Ujiri: Toronto Raptors General Manager visits Africa with NBA trophy to inspire a new generation”
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?
Continue reading “Makur Maker : Kenyan-born South Sudanese chooses Howard University to continue career”
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.
Continue reading “Hassan Mead | Somalian-born runner Speaks Up About the Racism He’s Dealt With Since Coming to the U.S. 21 Years Ago”
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.
Continue reading “How Remittances From Africans in Petit Senegal in New York Builds Wealth Abroad”
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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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.
Continue reading “Abdi Nor Iftin: A Somali immigrant hopes his book for young adults will inspire others to tell their story”
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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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
Continue reading “How George Floyd’s death united Africans and African-Americans”
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.”
Continue reading “The World Builds a Wall to Keep America Out”
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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