Month: March 2022

Arts

In ‘A Place In Time,’ A Painter And A Photographer Explore Africa’s Give And Take With Black American Culture
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By Maxwell Evans | Black Club Chicago

Nigerian-born painter Dayo Laoye always has relied on the generosity of South Siders to support his work. After twelve years tirelessly working to establish himself within the South Side’s Black arts scene, South Side Community Art Center co-founder Margaret Burroughs gave him several canvasses to use. They were musty and needed priming before he could use them, but they were a meaningful vote of confidence from one of the community’s most influential supporters of the arts.

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Communities, Religion

African Catholics in NYC find community at French Mass
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By KWASI GYAMFI ASIEDU | Associated Press  

When Landry Felix Uwamungu Ganza moved to New York from Rwanda last August, the Columbia University freshman searched for sanctuary, a sacred place to carry out his Sunday morning rituals just as he had back home.

He ventured into the nearest Catholic parish, the Church of Notre Dame in his new city’s Morningside Heights neighborhood, and to his surprise, he found the familiar rhythms of Mass being celebrated in French — a language he grew up hearing from the pulpit.

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Julie Weche | Meet the Kenyan Driving School owner teaching Swahili in the USA
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By The Bharat Express News

A Kenyan teacher is getting noticed in the United States of America by running a center that inspires the black community. Julie Weche is the founder and owner of the Elimu Tutoring Center in Baltimore, one of the most populous cities in the US state of Maryland.

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Communities

Africa in the spotlight | Afrohouse is connecting platform for Africans in Springfield, Illinois
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By Tiffani Jackson | State Journal-Register

When Olric Manthelot moved to Springfield in 2015, he was a victim of cultural stereotypes. As an African who immigrated from Congo-Brazzaville he said the language barrier and stigmas motivated ignorant assumptions about his people.

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Opinion

Africa and Its Diasporas|From Pan-Africanism to Developmentalism to Transnationalism
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By Paul Tiyambe Zeleza | The Elephant

Studies of Africa and its diasporas have largely been framed through the paradigms of Pan-Africanism and developmentalism. The persistent and pressing demands of Pan-African unity and African development have increasingly privileged the engagements of the new extra-continental diasporas that have grown rapidly and eclipsed previous preoccupations with the historic diasporas that remain globally dominant.

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Uncategorized

African startup CEOs that study abroad raise more VC money than those at home
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By Alexander Onukwue | Quartz Africa

Besides being the chief executives of multibillion-dollar African startups, Olugbenga Agboola of Flutterwave, and Ham Serunjogi of Chipper Cash have one other thing in common: credentials from US universities. A lot of African tech leaders that raise venture capital funding are like them.

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Communities

‘We do have a connection to our hair’: The art of African-style braiding
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By Marney Blunt  | Global News

For Nadia Wera, African-style braiding is a passion that developed into a career over the years.

“I’ve been braiding hair since I was in high school, it was sort of like my side hustle,” Wera laughed.

Wera moved to Canada from Kenya in her early high school years. She said options for African-style braiding in Winnipeg were limited.

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Politics

Deqa Dhalac Makes History as Maine’s First Black, Muslim Somali-American Mayor
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 by JACKIE ABRAMIAN | MS

In December, Deqa Dhalac became the U.S.’s first Somali American mayor, chosen by the South Portland City Council to lead a city that’s 90 percent white.

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Uncategorized

Uganda to Open Passport Centre in Washington DC, Four Other Missions
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By Kenneth Kazibwe | Nile Post News

The Ugandan government will later this month open a passport issuance centre at its mission in Washington DC, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said.

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African Food

East Africa is responsible for America’s favorite morning brew
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By Simran Sethi | npr

For most people in the United States, coffee is synonymous with chains like Starbucks, or third wave cafes boasting Panamanian pour overs — not necessarily the continent of Africa.

But the place where coffee originated, and where the most diverse varieties of coffee thrive, is Ethiopia and South Sudan, as recently confirmed by a research team led by coffee genetics expert and president of the International Women’s Coffee Alliance Sarada Krishnan.

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Health

Johnson & Johnson Announces Landmark Agreement to Enable its COVID-19 Vaccine to be Manufactured and Made Available by an African Company for People Living in Africa
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By Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson has announced the completion of a landmark agreement between Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and manufacturer Aspen SA Operations (Pty) Ltd, based in South Africa, to enable the first COVID-19 vaccine to be manufactured and made available by an African company for people living in Africa, with the goal of increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates across the continent.

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African Food

Gambian immigrant’s restaurant brings spicy West African food to Jackson
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By Todd A. Price | Mississippi Clarion Ledger

Sally Demba, 56, brought her family to the United States in 2007 from West Africa. For her new friends in America, she cooked food from her native Gambia. They told Demba she should have her own restaurant.

Last Saturday, Demba finally opened a restaurant, Sambou’s African Kitchen in Jackson, with her son, Joseph Sambou, 34, and her daughter, Bibian Sambou, 36.

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Arts, News

SMITHSONIAN TO RETURN COLLECTION OF BENIN BRONZES TO NIGERIA
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By artforum

In a decision that could mark a turning point in the growing restitution movement, the Smithsonian Institution announced on March 8 that it will repatriate to Nigeria nearly all of the thirty-nine Benin bronzes held in its collection. Many of the objects are believed to be part of the trove of some 90,000 brass, bronze, and ivory items looted from the Republic of Benin, as Nigeria was then known, in 1897 by British troops and dispersed across the Continent and then to parts west.

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Africans in America's Media

A Nigerian Doctor’s Fight for Equitable Access to Vaccines
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By Ginanne Brownell | The New York Times

Dr. Ayoade Alakija, an infectious disease specialist based in Nigeria, is co-chair of the African Union’s Vaccine Delivery Alliance (AVDA). In December 2021, Dr. Alakija, nicknamed Yodi, was put in charge of accelerating equitable access to Covid-19 tests, treatments and vaccines for the World Health Organization’s global initiative known as the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator. She uses the term “global north” to describe high-income countries and “global south” to describe low- and middle-income countries.

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African Food

P.E.I. chef looks forward to expanding business that celebrates her Kenyan culture
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Makena Tarichia-Ambassa receives $25,000 in startup funding for her catering company, Out Of Africa

By Logan MacLean | Saltwire

Makena Tarichia-Ambassa’s cooking career started with a choice.Growing up on a coffee farm in Mikinduri, Kenya, she and her 10 siblings often had chores. Cooking, cleaning and tending the animals all had to be done — so did fertilizing the crops with maggot-filled manure.

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Uncategorized

Fanta Bah—from top of the class in Africa to business asset in America
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by M’NIYAH LYNN | Amsterdam News

Fanta Bah is an international student that currently attends Baruch College. While at LaGuardia Community College, she was among one the first students to participate in the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Fellows program. It is her curiosity and ambition that allowed her to make the most out of her experience working with Ajoy Management Enterprise, a Harlem-based financial management firm. Bah used the fundamental skills she gained at the internship to become an asset to the firm and to wherever she wants to work in the future.

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African Politics, Communities

New Jersey’s American Ethiopian Community to Protest Outside Congressman Malinowski’s Office
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By Insider NJ

Over a hundred American Ethiopian residents of New Jersey will protest outside Congressman Tom Malinowski’s office on Thursday. Coordinated by AEPAC, its New jersey and New York State Campaign Elections Committees and AEPAC’s partner New York/New Jersey Tristate Hope 4 Ethiopia, the protestors will call on the Congressman to withdraw legislation he sponsors that would damage the long-time US-Ethiopia relationship, devastate Ethiopia’s economy, provide support to an internationally recognized terrorist group called the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and put the lives of millions of people in East Africa at risk.

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Uncategorized

Nyakim Gatwech | South Sudanese model Sudanese Model Speaks Out Over Offensive Tweet from Columbia University Professor
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By Kavontae Smalls | Atlanta Black Star

Nyakim Gatwech, 29, is a model from South Sudan who has been modeling professionally for about four years, but she’s found herself in a different kind of limelight after a Columbia University professor’s tweet many on social media found offensive.

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Giving Back

Gonser Zou | U.S.-based Liberian Installs Solar Lights in Kpalay, Nimba County
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By FrontPage Africa

In an effort to bringing electricity to people of portion of Liberia’s improverished and remote communities, a young US-based Liberian has installed floating solar energy lights in his native Kpalay Town in Nimba County.

The venture led by a local team back home on behalf of Gonser Zou has installed solar panels throughout his home town of Kpalay which is providing a steady supply of power during the night hours in that rural side of the country.

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Nigerians in Chicago, Minnesota, Indianapolis requesting passports since 2018 yet to get
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By NAN

Areport by the Nigerian consulate general in New York has revealed that there are outstanding passport requests dating back to 2018 that have yet to be responded to.

Consulate general Lot Egopija disclosed this in a report of the activities of the consulate in 2021.

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Embassies

Nigerian Consulate in New York laments increasing fake divorce documents
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By NAN

The Consulate-General of Nigeria in New York has lamented the increasing number of fake divorce documents received from its nationals for certification in 2021.

A report on the activities of the Consulate for 2021 obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York, said that the documents, purportedly issued by various courts in Nigeria, were presented to the Consulate-General for certification.

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Africa

Amazon’s going to Nollywood — and its deals with studios could shake up one of the world’s most prolific filmmaking hubs
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By Thomas Page | CNN

In its hunt for content, Amazon Prime Video has turned to Nigeria, where it has secured key deals with studios that could shake up business in Africa’s most prolific filmmaking hub.

In recent months, the US giant has signed exclusive streaming agreements with Inkblot Productions and Anthill Studios — which say the deals will fundamentally change the way they operate.

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Enterpreneurship

Founded by Ghanian Immigrant Sam Badoo, Fleri allows users to sponsor health insurance for those abroad
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BY CYNTHIA BENT FINDLAY | FOR COLUMBUS CEO 

Founded by Ghanaian immigrant Sam Baddoo, Fleri is a platform that allows users to purchase health insurance for beneficiaries in Africa and other in countries far away—currently only in Nigeria and Ghana, but is expanding rapidly. The beneficiary can go to local doctors, pharmacies or hospitals without having to wait for relatives to send money.

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Uncategorized

Three African immigrants sue Idaho over expensive hair-braiding license rules
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By The Associated Press

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Three Idaho women are suing the state in federal court over its expensive training requirement for professional hair-braiders. The women, represented by the Institute for Justice, filed the lawsuit against the Idaho Barber and Cosmetology Services Licensing Board in Boise’s U.S. District Court on Tuesday, the Idaho Statesman reported.

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Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote is now the 73rd richest person in the world, according to Bloomberg billionaires index
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By Victor Oluwowole | Business Insider Africa

President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has emerged as the 73rd richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $20 billion, as against his previous ranking of 83rd in the world last month, according to Bloomberg’s billionaires’ index.

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American firm Moderna To Build A State Of The Art MRNA Facility In Kenya
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By APO

President Uhuru Kenyatta in State House, Nairobi witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding between Kenya and Moderna to establish the first mRNA manufacturing facility in Africa.

The state-of-the-art mRNA facility in Africa is expected to produce up to 500 million doses of vaccines each year.

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Chiamaka Agbasi-Porter |Nigerian-American winner of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Awards who is inspiring futures in STEM
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By Kylie Foy | MIT Lincoln Laboratory

“My day-to-day is forming relationships,” says Chiamaka Agbasi-Porter, Lincoln Laboratory’s K–12 STEM outreach coordinator. Each July, when Chiamaka Agbasi-Porter welcomes a new group of high school seniors to MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s two-week residential radar program, she starts with a question: Who here is applying to MIT?

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Nigerian-American Adedolapo Adedokun named 2023 Mitchell Scholar by MIT
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By MIT News

MIT senior Adedolapo “Dolapo” Adedokun has been named one of 12 winners of the George J. Mitchell Scholarship’s Class of 2023. After completing his degree in electrical engineering and computer science next spring, he will travel to Ireland to undertake a MSc in intelligent systems at Trinity College Dublin as MIT’s fourth student to receive this award.

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Boeing, Ethiopian Airlines sign deal for new 777-8 freighter
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By James Anyanzwa | The East African

Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the supply of 777-8 Freighters. Under the deal, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)-listed American aerospace company will supply its long standing partner with five 777-8 Freighters, the industry’s’ newest aircraft believed to be the most capable and most fuel-efficient twin-engine freighter.

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Africa

U.S. Launches Kefeta, a $60 Million Investment to Lift Up Ethiopia’s Youth
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The United States through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a new investment of $60 million (3.1 billion Birr) to lift up millions of vulnerable youth across Ethiopia. Over the next five years, the new USAID Kefeta activity—which means ‘to elevate’ in Amharic—will help youth in 18 cities find meaningful jobs and expand their voice in Ethiopia’s civil discourse. This activity will also ensure that youth have better access to essential services—such as banking, family planning, and healthcare.

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