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African Food

Best West African restaurant in Portland named one of the best in US
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By Samantha Pierotti | Eugene Register-Guard

Akâdi is located in a warehouse in Southeast Portland. But the moment customers step inside, they are transported to the Ivory Coast of Africa, where chef Fatou Ouattara grew up and learned to cook.

Walls are painted in an ombré of sunset colors, a display of tribal masks hangs near the door and Mali music lilts through hidden speakers. Lush plants dangling from rafters blur the line between indoor and outdoor decor, something Ouattara remembers being important in her childhood home in Bouake, Cote D’Ivoire.

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Casimir Komenan | Ivory Coast Scholar Conducts Research on Prominent Author as Fulbright Visiting Scholar
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By University of Arkansas News

Throughout his time as a college student, Ivory Coast scholar Casimir Komenan dreamt of the opportunity to conduct scholarship at a higher education institution in the United States. He got that opportunity this year, when he spent six months at the University of Arkansas conducting research as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar.

Komenan, an associate professor at Felix Houphouet-Boigny University in the Ivory Coast, researched at the U of A from April to October for his project on acclaimed South African and Nobel Prize winning author J.M. Coetzee. Specifically, the project examines how four of Coetzee’s works – Elizabeth Costello, Slow Man, Diary of a Bad Year, and The Childhood of Jesus – represent “innovative world writing” characterized chiefly by globalized and innovative settings and writing rooted in literary, philosophical and cultural traditions.

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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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Education

Two UC Berkeley Students From Africa Grapple With COVID-19, Racial Violence in the US
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By Chloe Veltman | KQED

Abdoul Aziz Sandotin Coulibaly has seen plenty of riots and civil unrest in his native Ivory Coast. But the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol this week shocked and saddened the 23-year-old UC Berkeley graduate student.

“I am not really sure if there will be any real inclusion or acceptance of diversity or end to racism in this country,” he wrote in an email to KQED. “Despite the constant praise of the U.S. as being a country that upholds democracy, this is a clear statement that the U.S. today is like a developing country – susceptible to coups and such actions.”

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Immigration

Ghanaian, Boukinabe, Ivorien among immigrants sworn in as newest U.S. citizens at Berkshire, Massachusetts
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  • By Heather Bellow | The Berkshire Eagle

Their faces as hopeful as the sun and the shimmering Berkshire hills behind them, a dozen new Americans took the oath that means they now belong. At a coronavirus pandemic-adjusted naturalization ceremony in the Chinese garden at Naumkeag on Wednesday, 12 people from nine countries became U.S. citizens.

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Communities

Little Senegal: a home for West African food and culture in Harlem
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Little Senegal is located just two blocks east of Morningside Park on West 116th Street.

BY NOAH SHEIDLOWER


Shop signs written in both English and French, men and women dressed in traditional boubou garments, chefs cooking up fish stew while chatting with customers in Wolof —this reminds one of Dakar, the capital of Senegal. Yet, Little Senegal brings this scene to NYC—just two blocks east of Morningside Park on West 116th Street.

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Africa, African Politics

Ivory Coast Passes Legislation Encouraged by Ivanka Trump
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Ivanka Trump is applauding the recent passage of legislation in Ivory Coast related to changes she pushed during her April trip to Africa.

The country is in the process of updating its family code to make it more equitable to women — a move President Donald Trump’s eldest daughter and senior adviser praised as “a great step forward.”

“We are pleased to recognize and applaud the Ivorian government’s recent passage of the marriage law, which supports women’s equal management of household assets,” she said in a statement to The Associated Press.

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News, Visit to Africa

Ivanka Trump Announces $2 Million for Women in Ivory Coast Cocoa Industry
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ADZOPE, IVORY COAST —U.S. President Donald’s Trump’s daughter and senior White House advisor, Ivanka Trump, has announced a $2 million commitment to help women in Ivory Coast’s cocoa industry.

Speaking at Cayat, a cocoa cooperative in the town of Adzopé, Trump said Wednesday the $2 million, promised by USAID and private chocolate companies, would go toward savings associations, which are a popular way for businesswomen to gain capital in the West African country.

White House Advisor Ivanka Trump talks to women entrepreneurs, at the demonstration cocoa farm in Adzope, Ivory Coast April 17, 2019. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

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