The popular American rapper Meek Mill has apologized to the citizens of Ghana in response to his music video filmed at the Presidential Jubilee building in Ghana. Recently in Ghana during the Black Star Line Festival, rapper Meek Mill was a guest of the President of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo. Afterwards, he filmed a music video in the presidential House and that did not sit well … [Read more...] about US rapper Meek Mill Apologizes after the backlash for recording Music Video in Ghanaian Presidential Palace
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Accusation by a Nigerian Citizen: ‘Nigerian Embassy in Austria corruptly charges extra €50 from every visa applicant, €30 for passport’
Written by Uzoma Ahamefule · Stops Nigerians from going into the embassy with cell phones · POS installed at the embassy as a conduit pipe of corruption An open letter to President Buhari, National Assembly/House of Reps. Members, Foreign Affairs Minister, and the Acting Comptroller General of the … [Read more...] about Accusation by a Nigerian Citizen: ‘Nigerian Embassy in Austria corruptly charges extra €50 from every visa applicant, €30 for passport’
First Black Iraqi television newscaster (video)
BAGHDAD -- Randa Abd Al-Aziz was relaxing in a Baghdad cafe, making her friends laugh by reading a cosmetics pamphlet aloud in classical Arabic, the exaggeratedly formal language of speeches, official decrees -- and TV anchors. Overheard by a talent scout, Abd Al-Aziz soon got a totally unexpected and life-changing offer: How would she feel about reading the news on … [Read more...] about First Black Iraqi television newscaster (video)
Panama’s Black Christ Festival Stirs Up Sorrow and a Sense of Survival
For Afro-Panamanians, October offers a chance to celebrate Catholicism and their Blackness By Shannon Sims Smithsonia For three days each October, 26-year-old Evelyn Guerra treks 50 miles up and down jungled hills, until she reaches the Caribbean town of Portobelo, Panama, and the Festival del Cristo Negro. Along with several changes of clothes for the route’s rain and … [Read more...] about Panama’s Black Christ Festival Stirs Up Sorrow and a Sense of Survival
2023: Tools used by Old Guards to hold Power in Nigeria – Tribe, Religion, Election rigging and Bribery
The 2023 election is arduously at hand with festive campaigns and Nigerian voters anxiously waiting to return to the polling booths to elect their leaders and representatives especially the president and the governors. The Nigerian populace at this juncture is squarely prepared to face the old guard politicians who have always found the ways and means to manipulate them … [Read more...] about 2023: Tools used by Old Guards to hold Power in Nigeria – Tribe, Religion, Election rigging and Bribery