In late February 2017, news reports appeared on social media sites relaying the supposed arrest of Miss South Africa Ntandoyenkosi Kunene. The headline, originally published on the fake news site, te1egraph.co.uk, stated that Ms. Kunene had been arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport with two kilograms of cocaine hidden in coffee bags. The story was…
Nji Collins Gbah, a 17-year-old student from Cameroon, is the latest winner of the Google Code-In Challenge, an annual contest that encourages young students around the world to show off their programming skills. Nji has certainly made his nation proud by becoming the first African to earn this prestigious award; moreover, he did so…
Go, Gabby, go!! We’re all cheering on the vivacious Brooklyn-born actress known as Gabourey Sidibe. We’re sure she’d appreciate the support, but in reality, Gabby can go it alone, because this native New Yorker is a strong, beautiful woman who leads with conviction, confidence, and spirit. Her journey has not been an easy one,…
The 2017 South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTAs) are getting closer. Here is a look at the contenders for Best Feature Film. Noem My Skollie Noem My Skollie, or Call Me Thief, was South Africa’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards. Though it ended up not being nominated,…
We knew it was coming. The feud between Nicki Minaj and Remy Ma is as intense as ever, if not more so. Fuel was added to the fire this week after Nicki Minaj released “No Frauds” in response to Remy’s “shETHER.” She performed it for the first time with Drake in Paris, a few…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian-American author and feminist who desires to amplify the lives of African women through her words. Adichie was born in southeast Nigeria in 1977. Her parents were both academics at the University of Nigeria. Adichie had planned to follow in her sister’s footsteps by studying medicine at University of Nigeria.…
Get Out, the new film written and directed by Jordan Peele of “Key and Peele”, is a deep departure for the actor-writer on some levels. Sure, he’s never written or directed a horror film before, but if you’re familiar with his other racially-charged work, the premise of this new number one film won’t surprise…
Everyone knows the catastrophic impact of the ivory trade on elephants across the world. This year alone, a rare tusker elephant was slaughtered by poachers in Kenya’s Tsavo National Park. This is not a new phenomenon; for centuries, trophies of big kills have decorated hunting halls, castles, and homes. In an unusual twist in response…
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became Africa’s first female elected head of state and the world’s first elected black female president in 2005. She was also elected in 2016 to be Chair of the Economic Community of West African States. In 2011, she received the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Leymah Gbowee of Liberia…
Our favorite ‘transracial’ black girl is back in the news, and the reason is predictably laughable. Just weeks before her Memoir, In Full Color, is released, Rachel Dolezal announced that she has legally changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo. Along with her new African name, she is doubling down on her claim that despite…
