A Barbadian’s Inspiring Visit to Barbados By Bevan Springer
TRAVEL & TOURISM – Enjoy the beauty of Africa, Caribbean and other exotic Black destinations. Reserved for subscribers MPE CEO Bevan Springer (left) with Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley in Bridgetown earlier this month Illustration by Abdul Wahid, Marketplace ExcellenceAs one of the legions of Barbadians making a life in the diaspora, every trip home […]
Ethiopian heads to Atlanta
TRAVEL & TOURISM – Enjoy the beauty of Africa, Caribbean and other exotic Black destinations. Ethiopian Airlines launched its new route between Addis Ababa and Atlanta on May 16, its sixth destination to North America, according to airspace-africa.com. It now offers four flights a week between Addis Ababa and Hartsfield Jackson Airport, operated by a Boeing […]
African Architects At Venice exhibition Call For decolonization, New Start
AFRICA INC. – Rising economies, start-ups, and Black wealth, etc. Reserved for subscribers Visitors to the central exhibition, Force Majeure. Simone Padovani/Getty Images Presented since 1979, the Venice Architecture Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia) is possibly the most influential architecture exhibition in the world. For the first time, this year’s edition is curated by an African architect, Lesley Lokko. […]
A $331 Billion Deal Source Africa Set To Bridge Funding Gap For African Businesses
AFRICA INC. – Rising economies, start-ups, and Black wealth, etc. Reserved for subscribers By Thandisizwe Mgudlwa It will be interesting to see if something something substantial, in the long run, will come out of a new venture to empower African enterprises. This comes in the form of Deal Source Africa, a comprehensive programme to connect African […]
Mayor Bass, City of Los Angeles Observe ‘Africa Day’ and Honor The African Times/USA
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] Presenting the Certificate of Recognition to the Editor-in-Chief of […]
Winnie and Nelson: New Book Paints a Human Portrait of the Mandela Marriage
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] Reserved for subscribers By Jonny Steinberg A powerful new […]
Nigeria’s New President And The Crisis of Legitimacy
AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. Reserved for subscribers By Caleb Onyeabor/An Analysis The last presidential elections in Nigeria have lived up to the hype as the most competitive, intriguing and interesting election in Nigeria since the return to democracy in 1999. The candidate of the APC polled 8,794,726 to win […]
..And Isn’t It Time To Have Mbeki Back To Turn South Africa Around?
AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. Reserved for subscribers By Thandisizwe Mgudlwa/An Analysis In the past couple of years, the name of former president Thabo Mbeki has re-emerged as a possible solution for fixing the South Africa (SA) economy and spreading the wealth of the country to all its people. Mostly, this […]
Whither South Africa As We Had Always Know It?
AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. Reserved for subscribers By Thandisizwe Mgudlwa/Special to The African Times/USA PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa is the unluckiest president since the dawn of South Africa’s democracy in 1994, confided one ANC activist recently during a brief chat the other day. Just less two years into the highest job […]
Tanzania Aims To Boost Tourism With Major Arts and Culture Festival
TRAVEL & TOURISM – Enjoy the beauty of Africa, Caribbean and other exotic Black destinations. Arusha International Conference Centre An African festival of arts and culture, FESTAC Africa, will take place at the Arusha International Conference Centre, Tanzania, from May 21-27. This is reportedly Africa’s biggest festival celebrating culture and heritage in the form of arts, fashion, […]