First Lady Michelle Obama delivered a rare radio address to the nation where she highlighted the Mother’s Day weekend to speak out strongly against the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian girls by Islamist militants who have threatened to sell the girls into slavery. “Like millions of people across the globe, my husband and I […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the U.S. will do everything it can to help Nigeria find nearly 300 teenage girls missing since they were kidnapped from school three weeks ago by an Islamist extremist group that has threatened to sell them. Obama said the immediate priority is finding the girls, but […]

Earlier this week, Boko Haram Islamists ascended onto a secondary school in Chibok, Nigeria and abducted over 100 schoolgirls. By Wednesday, only  eight of the…

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Nigeria has become Africa’s biggest economy, leapfrogging South Africa, after the government announced a long-overdue rebasing of the country’s GDP. The new calculations take into account changes in production and consumption since the last time the exercise was carried out in 1990 and indicated that the economy grew to $453-billion in 2012, instead of $264-billion […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Beyonce’s favorite feminist has won a fiction prize. Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, whose TED talk on feminism is featured on the Beyonce CD on the song “Flawless,” has gotten her own props. Her most recent novel “Americanah,” about a young Nigerian woman navigating life in America and Africa, has won […]

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Apartheid ended in 1994 but Cape Town, South Africa is still segregated. Many beaches in the ‘Mother City’ remain predominately white and it’s the only province of South Africa not run by the African National Congress. Most Cape Town Blacks live in shacks outside of the city – the so-called Cape Town flats. If you’re poor, […]

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If you think the United States gay laws are bad, just wait until you hear what’s going on in Uganda.  Listen to the audio player to hear “The Russ Parr Morning Show” list the crazy gay laws passed in the country that could get you life in prison. Keep Up With The Russ Parr Morning […]

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African Students Association, a group of U.S.-based African students (pic, at Ithaca College are confronting archaic Western views about the continent through a photo campaign,…

The Gulf of Aden is one of the most dangerous areas of the high seas in the world. Off the coast of Somalia, which has no functioning government after years of famine and war, the Gulf is patrolled by pirates. The pirates have captured commercial and private vessels and held ships and crew for millions […]

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Central African Republic’s government said Thursday that Joseph Kony, an accused war criminal being hunted by African troops and U.S. advisers, is believed to be in a town in the country’s remote southeast and has been talking with the president, but U.S. officials and others expressed doubt that reported talks represent […]

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Fashion has always been a top priority for African women, and for Cameroon in particular, its upcoming Fashion Week from December 3 to December 7 is sure…

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What better way for a young, privileged White woman to ring in her 21st birthday than with a racist party full of stereotypical, ignorant depictions…