Six Essential Steps to Starting an African Specialty Business in the US
Now is a good time as any to start turning that business idea you’ve been obsessing about into a reality. A report by Guidant Financial shows that as many as 78% of all small businesses are raking in good profits. By following the right steps to start a business, you too can join the ranks […]
The Home Brewing that makes Nigerian-Americans the most Successful Immigrant group in the US
What do you get when you put a people with a thirst for education and penchant for success inside a country with a world-class education system and a vibrant economy full of opportunities? Well, Nigerian-Americans. During a typical family get-together of Nigerian Americans, you can randomly pick out someone from the gathering. The odds are […]
Carl Craig: Haiti on a Canvas
As an autodidact artist, he abandoned a lucrative Wall Street career to respond to the call of the homeland, through a paintbrush. Portrait. He thought he could keep it inside him forever, reckoning with the force of this passion living within since childhood. Finally, at the age of 56, (he is 66 today) Carl […]
Samba Diallo : life in colors, mosaics and reliefs
Color is life, explains his powerful voice Samba Diallo in the middle of the twenty paintings of the exhibition « African sun Held in December 2017 in D akar. The basketball physics of the self-taught artist claimed and assumed is proportional to the size of his canvases. Coming to the world 2 years before the […]
Claudy Khan: A Congolese painter inspired by Women
Falling into the art of drawing, much like Obelix and the magic potion, he became a painter without even realizing it. This artist graduated from the Kinshasa and Lubumbashi Fine Arts academies and since 2015, is the owner of two art galleries, one in his native Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the other, in […]
How to Boost Ticket Sales for Your Next Event Through Facebook
By Matthew Macharia Let’s say you’ve planned the perfect Christmas dinner party, but you forget to tell your family and friends about it. How do you think your dinner party would turn out? Just like a Christmas dinner party, the success of your event is heavily reliant on your expected guests seeing or hearing about […]
DNA Tracing Takes You on An Epic Journey to Find Your Roots
About one year ago Zuri set out to answer a seemingly simple question about the heritage: where exactly in Africa did her grandparents come from? All she needed to do is spit into some test tubes and wait for the results. Zuri is one of the 26 million+ people who have used at-home DNA kits […]
Too African to be American, Too American to be African: Growing up as a first-generation African Immigrant
Growing up is not easy. I mean, think about all the changes you are confronted with as a baby living most of your days at home with mama and papa. Then one day, they send you off to school, where you start interacting with people from all walks of life. At one point, you grow […]
How African Immigrants create little Africa in America to keep their Identity and Culture alive
At the turn of the century, a considerable number of Africans began migrating ‘willingly’ to Europe and the US. Their numbers began increasing rapidly in the US following the 1980 Refugee Act, which opened the American borders to people fleeing from conflict regions. In recent times, a good number come in pursuit of higher education […]
Akon has begun constructing a Wakanda City in his home country Senegal
47-year-old Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam, or as popularly known by his stage name, Akon, is currently building his tech-centric and futuristic city ‘Akon City’ in Senegal. Much has been said about the proposed city, including some referring to it as the Wakanda City in the Academy Awards winner sci-fi movie Black Panther. You may […]