After President Barack Obama delivered his historic Africa address at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, NewsOne got the opportunity to speak with…
On Monday, First Lady Michelle Obama (pictured center left) flew in to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to meet with First Lady Salma Kikwete (pictured center…
On a flight to South Africa, President Barack Obama sat down with veteran journalist April Ryan to discuss the future of Africa — on cultural,…
First Lady Michelle Obama is on Instagram! She posted a few pics from Senegal, where’s she’s visiting with President Barack Obama. “My first instagram! So inspired and so impressed by these extraordinary young women. -mo #FLOTUSinAfrica” Will you follow her…we are! Source: BlackMediaScoop
Comedian Michael Blackson jokes with the crew about the heat in Ghana. being the King of African comedy, his history with J. Anthony Brown and…
Nelson Mandela was in serious but stable condition in a Pretoria hospital for the third day Monday with a recurring lung infection, and a foundation led by retired archbishop Desmond Tutu described the 94-year-old anti-apartheid hero as an “extraordinary gift” to South Africa. As family members visited South Africa’s first black president in the hospital, […]
As a 12-year-old girl emigrating to America from Ghana, Sandra Appiah’s (pictured) background was certainly vulnerable to xenophobia. And when she began high school, such…
Hospitals and morgues were flooded with the injured and dead after a string of coordinated bomb attacks on police stations in the city of Kano, Nigeria on Friday. The Islamist group Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the strikes, which the BBC said would be the organization’s most deadly attack to date. The group has said […]
Eugene Pothy (pictured) of East Orange, N.J., was finally reunited with his 10-year-old son, Philippe-Emmanuel, on Tuesday, after the boy’s mother, Judith Any-Grah, sent him to relatives in the the Ivory Coast for eight years, according to the NY Daily News. SEE ALSO: White Students Yell N-Word While Beating Asian Student For Pothy, finally reuniting […]
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — World music icon Youssou Ndour says he plans to run in Senegal’s presidential election next month, challenging an 85-year-old incumbent whose plans to seek a third term have sparked violent protests. SEE ALSO: African Dictator Propped Up By Coke (As In Coca-Cola) Ndour, who made the announcement late Monday on his […]
Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie (pictured) told an audience at TED, a conference of “ideas worth sharing” in technology, entertainment, and design made popular by its free video and discussion site, that knowing only a single story of a person or a place is destructive like the one-noted image we have of Africa – hunger, poverty, […]
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Police fired tear gas at supporters of Congo’s top opposition leader Friday as he planned to inaugurate himself president despite officially losing the poll, a move that observers fear could spark more election-related violence in the mineral-rich central African nation. SEE ALSO: The Disappearing Black Journalist Some 1,000 supporters gathered near […]
