Hail to “The African”
Hail to The African Just as Afro-Americans in the early forties cheered Negro Digest, The African was hailed by Africans and Americans cutting across socio-professional and racial backgrounds both in the … Read More
Tag: African Diaspora
African football players with gold in their boots
By Ebow Godwin and Usman Mama The first group of players from a black African national football team who visited England in the early 1930’s from the then-Gold Coast, now …
How African soccer players dazzle Europe
BY EBOW GODWIN AND JAMES ASUKA The amazing prolific exploits of superstar Samuel Eto’o at Inter Milan and Barcelona succinctly summarize how the creativity, skills and talents of African soccer mega-stars have … Read More
Meet Rama Yade, a Senegalese-born turned French political icon
By Sidi Dia and Jean DeColi She is provocatively beautiful. She is black, smart, tough, ambitious, bluntly outspoken and a media magnet. In February 2009, she was voted the most …
Movie star Djimon Hounsou’s homecoming
BY LOU SIFA Djimon Hounsou, the American movie star originally from Benin, West Africa who rose to fame thanks to his role in Steven Spielberg’s 1997 film Amistad, and later gained increased … Read More