On Monday, 500 participants of the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders joined Pres. Barack Obama for a town hall meeting. The meeting caps off…
Akon is giving back in a major way. The R&B singer is using millions of his own dollars to bring solar-powered electricity to one million…
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African Students Association, a group of U.S.-based African students (pic, at Ithaca College are confronting archaic Western views about the continent through a photo campaign,…
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Few lives have been thoroughly chronicled as that of former South African President Nelson Mandela, who died on Thursday at the age of 95. From…
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What better way for a young, privileged White woman to ring in her 21st birthday than with a racist party full of stereotypical, ignorant depictions…
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Armed gunmen entered a mall in Nairobi, Kenya, sparking an intense standoff with police after opening fire on shoppers and diners. The Westgate Mall in Nairobi was the scene for an attack that left 39 confirmed dead this morning, including family members of the president of the country. Two gunmen are amongst the dead. A […]
From the streets of Pretoria to Twitter and even aboard the International Space Station, people around the world and beyond it came together to celebrate legendary former South African president and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela as he turned 95 years old . The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in South Africa urged people around the world to […]
