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AFRICANS AND AFRICAN-AMERICANS CLASH IN THE BRONX, NEW YORK
The African community's fast-growing presence in the area has unfortunately been accompanied by increasing tensions with the local black American residents. (READ MORE)
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HARLEM HOSPITAL'S NEW MEDINA CLINIC TO SERVE AS OUTREACH TO CULTURALLY DIVERSE GROUP
Harlem Hospital Center and the Renaissance Health Care Network are pleased to announce the Grand Opening of the Medina Clinic at the Lenox Avenue Health Center and the Ronald H. Brown Pavilion at Harlem Hospital Center. (READ MORE)
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CHANGE NIGERIA PROJECT HOLDS "NIGERIA @49 WAY FOWARD" CONFERENCE
It was billed as a conference supposedly attracting those who are moving Nigeria forward, the latest in a myriad of conferences/seminars by Nigerians trying to find out what is wrong with their country and how to change the direction the country is taking. (READ MORE)
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FROM NURSE'S AIDE IN AMERICA TO A KING IN UGANDA
According to the Associated Press, with a story titled, "Former Nurse's Aide in US Becomes Ugandan King", you would think that the man, Charles Wesley Mumbere has become the king of the whole of Uganda. (READ MORE)
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NY TIMES DETAILS CLASHES BETWEEN AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS AND AFRICAN-AMERICANS/HISPANICS IN THE BRONX, NEW YORK
The New York Times has detailed the clashes between African immigrants and African-American/Hispanics in the Bronx, New York. According to the paper, African immigrants are being terrorized because they are different - they wear African clothes and are mostly Muslims. (READ MORE)
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SIERRA LEONEAN'S HOME SWEET HOME VOYAGE
Posted by africannewsworld
Charles Mason, who resides in Jacksonville, Florida, was on a three-month visit to his native land, Sierra Leone, walking the streets of Freetown and the provincial towns in order to make an eyeball assessment of a recovering nation. Eventually he wishes to contribute to its rebuilding and economic development. Before the advent of the devastating war, he was a successful entrepreneur during the ‘hay days’ there. But a decade-long civil war chased him out of the motherland, running for his life. Mason was forced to seek refuge in neighboring Guinea and Ghana, before traveling to the United States, his adopted home. Author, writer, commentator, Roland Bankole Marke, interviewed Mason from Freetown, and this sobering assessment was written from his perspective. (click here) |
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African Sun Times Interviews Mayor Robert L. Bowser
by Chika Onyeani
AST: We want to first congratulate you on your election. I know that you were re-elected the year before as the President of the National Conference of Black mayors. How is your tenure?
BOWSER: We represent close to 600 Black mayors across the country. If you total the population that they represent like small towns anywhere from 200 people up to something like Detroit. Total I thing that we represent about 18 millions people and that's just a rough estimate. This is our 34th year, it was started in the south by a small group of people like Johnny Ford who used to be a congressman, Tuskeegee. Mayor Barry was one of the founders. It was may be twelve that started the group and it gradually grew (click here)
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Mayor Bowser: The Action Mayor of a City on the Rise
by Chika Onyeani
In the late fifties, it was successively voted the cleanest city in America, in a three-year period. In one episode of “I Love Lucy,” Lucy talked about getting lost, but ended up in East Orange where she said she went on to shop at some of the upper scale shops in the country. The city boasted of such national and international figures like the great tennis player Althea Gibson, who after her tennis years decided to live in East Orange, where she died in 2003; William H. Wiley, who co-founded the well-known publishing company, Wiley and Sons. (click here) |
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THE SULTAN AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Chika
by Onyeani
The Sultan of the Sokoto Caliphate and Supreme Leader of Nigerian Muslims, spoke at the Columbia University's School of International Affairs' Institute of African Studies on Wednesday, November 7th, 2007.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, Nov. 7 - The Institute of African Studies (IAS) presented a lecture entitled, "Islam and Democracy in Nigeria," with the Sultan of Sokoto, Nigeria. Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR). (click here)
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