Black African Architect From Burkina Faso Wins Top Architecture Prize
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email The 2022 laureate of architecture’s highest honor, the Pritzker Architecture Prize is Diébédo Francis Kéré, Burkina Faso-born architect, educator, social activist, receiver of the 2004 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Recognized for “empowering and transforming communities through the process of architecture,” Kéré, the […]
Behold The Historical Eaton DC Hotel
ARTS, STYLE & ENTERTAINMENT This is YOUR lifestyle gallery – of what is new and what is happening in the U.S. And the Black World, not excluding Africa. For this section if you have any news we should know about – let us know at: [email protected] Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin […]
Inside the lives of Brazil’s quilombos: Forging An African Identity In Resistance
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Afro-Brazilians find strength in the nearly 6,000 communities established by ancestors who escaped slavery. Beginning as early as 1530 and continuing for the next 350-plus years, ships brought more enslaved Africans to Brazil—some 4.8 million—than to any other nation in the Americas. By […]
The Karen Bass-Mystic That Tops It Off For Women Of Color
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Charles Anyiam/Editor-in-Chief, The African Times-USA A thorough-bred politician, Karen literally missed by whiskers the opportunity to become America’s second citizen last winter and consequently lost out the exalted position to another Black woman, Kamala Harris. According to the March edition of the prestigious Los […]
Black Artists: Are They An Invisible Breed?
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email September Gray is the brain behind the eponymous gallery September Gray Fine Art in Atlanta. Her credential as one to reflect on art and the Black art presence started at The Art School at DePaul University, then with an art consultancy business and […]
February Cover British Vogue/The Times’ Comment
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email British Vogue’s editor-in-chief, Edward Enninfula broke the color line in the world of high fashion with the February cover of his magazine which featured top Black models who are members of the British and the overall European runway. Auspiciously, all the models were […]
Why A Tiny Country On The Horn Of Africa Has The Ears Of The Congress
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Somaliland’s delegation swept through Washington, promising to support Taiwan and ditch China. All it wants is a little recognition. As China floods Africa with billions of dollars in development aid, massive infrastructure investment, and even talk of a new military base, a tiny […]
Russia Sets Its Sight On A Rising Africa
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Carol Guensburg Russia has drawn the world’s attention with its aggressive stance toward Ukraine. The former Soviet power has been rebuilding ties with Africa more quietly, strengthening economic and military cooperation, but also raising Western concerns about its tactics and goals there. […]
Valentine’s Day Celebration As part of An African Odyssey
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Romance is alive and well across Africa this Valentine’s Day, according to CNN – romance literature, that is. Some of the continent’s top writers have joined forces to mark the occasion by releasing an anthology of romantic short stories for free in digital […]
A NASDAQ-style bourse is coming to Nigeria
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Looks like Africa’s most populated country and biggest economy is gradually [or increasingly] taking cognizance of the potential value enclosed within its tech space, and is on the lookout for ways to TAP THAT. The country is, after all, the tech startup capital […]