Harper’s Bazaar And Lagos Fashion Week
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email America’s Harper’s Bazaar introduced its American readers to Ms. Omoyemi Akerele, the founder of Lagos Fashion Week on its 10th year of delivering and helping to bring to the forefront Africa’s designers and its haute couture industry. Following are some of the comments […]
Ethnic food has become the Ultimate Equalizer in Urban America
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Pascale Joassart-Marcelli Everybody, it seems, welcomes the arrival of new restaurants, cafés, food trucks and farmers markets. What could be the downside of fresh veggies, homemade empanadas and a pop-up restaurant specializing in banh mis? But when they appear in unexpected places […]
Mama Samia Stirs Controversy With Naming A Woman To Tanzania’s Defense Ministerial Position
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan caused a stir after she appointed Stergomena Tax as defense minister. She becomes the first woman to hold the critical portfolio since the country’s independence. “I have decided to break the longtime myth that in the defense ministry, […]
Young Ghanaians in Europe Impact Homestead With Frequent Visits
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Young migrants make up over 20% of the youth population across the European Union. In cities like Hamburg in Germany, half of all children and youth under the age of 18 have a migration background (50.4%), meaning they or their parents were born […]
Africa’s Irresistible Pull Is Legendary And Here Are Quotes That Express Them..
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email There is nowhere quite like Africa. From its vast savannahs to its teeming cities, it is a continent of extremes. Unparalleled beauty exists alongside devastating poverty, and the wonder of Africa’s wildest places must be experienced to be truly understood. Many have put […]
Black-Led Western, ‘The Harder They Fall’ Is Not Alternative History
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Chris Lindahl With a cast led by Black actors, including Idris Elba and Regina King, Jeymes Samuel’s upcoming film “The Harder They Fall” stands in stark contrast to the white-dominated world of classic Westerns. But the way Samuel sees it, his vision […]
Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah: The Man And His Writing
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email The Nobel Prize in Literature, considered the pinnacle of achievement for creative writers, has been awarded 114 times to 118 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2021. This year it went to novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, who was born in Zanzibar, the first Tanzanian […]
Day Nigerian Presidential Candidate Bared His Heart To The African Times-USA
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Attorney Edwin IK Aimufua, a Los Angeles alum who is primed to contest for Nigeria’s highest political office – the Presidency – in 2023, recently paid a courtesy visit to the offices of The African Times-USA in California. During the visit, Mr. Aimufua […]
Firm Wins Award To Build A New U.S. Consulate General in Nigeria
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email The Department of State has awarded Pernix Federal, LLC of Lombard, Illinois the $319 million design-build contract for the new U.S. Consulate General in Lagos, Nigeria. The 12.2-acre site for the new Consulate General is part of Eko Atlantic, a development led by […]
L.A. Times’s Dr. Patrick Plans To Give Back To His Native South Africa – A Vaccine Plant
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email South African-born biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong’s NantWorks has agreed to invest in a manufacturing plant and complex in the country’s Western Cape and aims to produce COVID-19 and cancer vaccines, according to a report by Bloomberg. Technology transfer is expected to take place […]