Posts Tagged ‘Africa’
AfroFuture Ghana 2025
Get ready for AfroFuture 2025, formerly Afrochella, bringing a week of vibrant celebration to Accra culminating December 28th to 29th. This premier cultural festival is your gateway to an extraordinary African experience. Dive into the heart of global Black culture with electrifying live performances, stunning art installations, and mouth-watering culinary delights.
Read MoreGhana’s President Calls Slave Trade ‘Greatest Crime,’ Pushes U.N. for Reparations
If successful, this approach could benefit the descendants of slaves kiddnapped from Ghana around the globe.
Read MoreIn 1909, Theodore Roosevelt Embarked on an Expedition to East Africa. His Trip Still Matters Today
The trip helped President Roosevelt understand the environmental impact of colonialism and provided American museums with new specimens.
Read MoreSilicon Valley African Film Festival
The Silicon Valley African Film Festival promotes an understanding and appreciation of Africa and Africans through moving images. Aptly themed “Africa through the African lens”, the film festival celebrates the vast richness of the African Continent through the lenses of Africa’s seasoned and emerging filmmakers and, crucially, provides audiences with exquisite lenses to the real Africa.
Read MoreDNA project hopes to reunite African Americans in Illinois with ancestral relatives in Africa
The project helps African descendants trace their roots back to Africa, something that was typically impossible before DNA testing.
Read More‘The Ancestors Were Speaking’: My Pilgrimage to Ghana
As a point of origin in the transatlantic slave trade, Ghana has preserved forts and dungeons where countless enslaved people were bought and sold ahead of the harrowing Middle Passage.
Read MoreCambridge honours Nigerian PhD student for Biafra Heritage Project
Stanley Onyemechalu has worked to engage Nigerians and raise awareness of the Nigeria-Biafra war that has been suppressed by the government.
Read MoreBlack Americans Find a Racism Respite Through ‘Blaxit’
Trump’s controversial policies are fueling the current wave of expatriation from Ghana to Panama, especially by people of color.
Read MoreCourt ruling on Belgium’s conduct in colonial Africa hailed as turning point
The ruling recognizes the pain of the families of and the mixed-raced children in Africa who were kidnapped to Europe.
Read MoreHeri za Kwanzaa (Happy Kwanzaa)!
December 26th marks the first day of Kwanzaa, or Umoja, which means “unity” in Swahili. According to the African American Registry, Kwanzaa was founded by Dr. Maulana Karenga in 1966.Umoja is the foundational principle of the Nguzo Saba (seven principles); without it, all other principles suffer. Kwanzaa is a unique African American celebration focused on the traditional…
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