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Internationale pop Barbados geboren superster Rihanna werd onlangs geschonken de felbegeerde titel van "de meest sexy vrouw in leven" door Esquire Magazine. Bekend van haar catchy tunes en fashion forward stijl en rand, […]

De kunsten hebben altijd een belangrijke rol gespeeld in de geschiedenis en cultuur van de Afrikaanse afstammelingen. Hoewel veel mensen vandaag de dag vaak beperken de reikwijdte van kunst binnen de Afrikaanse diaspora naar hip hop, tik, R & B, […]

It is sad that we only get to hear the greatness of a person or appreciate their talent after they are dead and gone.

Sazzy (Osaze Omonbude), an aspiring Nigerian artist/ producer who had a unique style in […]

Most of the dialogue about breast cancer surrounds women and on the rare occasions men are mentioned, it is usually in reference to their need to support the women in their lives affected by the disease. […]

Adjoa Osei, een nieuw merk met zijn debuut collectie getiteld aanpassen is zeker een om naar te kijken. De collectie kleine, maar bondige, toont expert bewerken en een scherp oog voor de oprichting van samenhangende looks. Het […]

Web sensation Issa Rae is a woman on mission: the twenty-seven year old Senegalese-American wants to change the depiction of people of color. And it’s about time— it’s not often people of color are portrayed […]

His feet pond the trash littered streets. His breath, turned a ghostly white by the cold South African air, comes in staccato bursts. Past the cars flipped on their sides during the riots the night before. […]

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”– Desmond Tutu
The apartheid regime and battle to overcome it in South Africa will forever be […]

Born Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander on July 7th, 1915, Margret Walker has been a major contributor to African American literature and is often referred to as one of the most gifted Black intellectuals in […]

Opgroeien als kind opgroeien in een dorp in het kleine Caribische eiland St. Vincent en de Grenadines, I was often prohibited from wondering the streets or socialising with other people outside of […]

Ger Duany an actor, model and film maker started his life far from the “bright lights” of New York. Born and raised in Sudan, he was forced to be a child soldier when the conflict between North and South […]

“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within — strength, courage, dignity.” – Ruby Dee

Born on October 27th, 1924, Ruby Dee has been an important force in the movement of […]

On October 1st, 1960, Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria, gained its independence from the United Kingdom. Comprised of over 300 ethnic groups and competing religious traditions of Christianity, Islam and […]

  If Kenya had a mother, Professor Wangari Maathai is the true mama Kenya; she fought for and served her children with courage. As the first woman in East and Central Africa to get a doctorate and the first African woman to win the Nobel peace prize, Wangari inspired many beyond the Kenyan borders. She was […]

Wanneer de plantocratie begonnen met de Akan regio West-Afrika, ze specifiek gezocht en gekocht 'Koromantis' (ook wel Coromantees) vanwege hun befaamde kenmerken van trots en discipline. Terwijl slavenhouders hopen dat deze genoemde kenmerken van hun nieuw verworven ‘eigendom’ “goede slaven” zou maken, omdat ze bekend waren moeilijk te zijn […]

There is a moment for a lot of us. For some it passes with but a whisper. For others it thunders through them like a herd of zebra on the Serengeti Plain. For others still, it is somewhere in the middle; A sort of delicate mix between the serenity of an African sunset and the […]