HOPKINS, Minn. (Mshale) - Koisey Hiama was crowned Miss Liberia Minnesota over the weekend at the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts. Miss Liberia 1975, Aurelia Sancho-McGill, was on hand to crown Ms. Hiama.
Among the talents contestants were judged on included spoken word and singing.
The Kofa Foundation organized and hosted the pageant and its executive director, Decontee Kofa, presented the...
Starting 2017 or early 2018, when Kenyan-Americans in Minnesota and eventually the rest of the United States need to obtain a mortgage, or send money to their kin in Kenya, they will have the option of walking into a credit union they own and do the sending from there.
They will also be able to do the typical transactions they...
The Mau Mau Uprising was a revolt against British colonial rule in Kenya and lasted eight years(1952-1960). It accelerated Kenya's path to independence .
The impetus for the revolt revolved around Issues like the expulsion of Kikuyu tenants from settler farms, loss of land to white settlers, poverty, and lack of true political representation for Africans. The Kikuyu were the...
The 2016 Miss Liberia Minnesota Scholarship Pageant will begin at 6 p.m. on October 29 at the Hopkins Center for the Arts in Downtown Hopkins.
Seven Liberian women will compete to be crowned Miss Liberia Minnesota 2016 according to the Pageant’s official website. Contestants are required to be between 18 and 26 with a minimum GPA of 2.5 if they...
This story is courtesy of the Star Tribune. The author of the story, Faiza Mahamud, is Mshale's Associate Editor but is also a reporter at the Star Tribune.
They are among a growing number of Somali-Americans recruited as bridge-builders to overcome mistrust and misunderstanding.
Abdimalik Mohamed shows young Somalis that government jobs are not far-fetched. Yasmin Muridi explains to teachers what...
Vaccines are an important part of keeping kids healthy but did you know that adults need vaccines, too? Even if you were fully vaccinated as a child, your protection from certain diseases wears off. All adults need a yearly influenza vaccine. Get one dose of tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis (Tdap) vaccine if you did not get it as an adolescent. Then, get...
The Twin Cities, home to the largest per capita number of Fortune 500 companies in the nation, is gearing up to host one of the largest state sponsored career fairs targeting people of color on Tuesday, October 18.
The event, planned from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Minneapolis Convention Center has the backing of none other than the...
Stima Investment Co-operative Society, the investment arm for members of Stima SACCO in Kenya, is continuing its push for a bigger slice of the Kenyan Diaspora market in the United States. Credit Unions are known as SACCOS in most of the world.
Stima SACCO is Kenya's third largest SACCO by asset size which by extension also gives it the same...
A new delay in Somalia’s elections is a matter of “immediate concern,” raising fears that the process is being politically manipulated and that the latest postponement may only be one of yet further rolling delays, the top United Nations official in the long-troubled East African country warned today.
First slated to be held in August, parliamentary elections will now take...
David Robinson, son of baseball legend Jackie Robinson will be the grand marshall at Books for Africa's Children's Book March taking place tomorrow (Saturday, September 24) starting at 10:30am.
Robinson, who moved to Tanzania 33 years ago and continues to live there, is in the Twin Cities to raise awareness and funds for Books for Africa. He threw the first...
After leaving her native Liberia as a teenager during the start of the civil war in 1990, Wokie Freeman and her family moved to the city of Brooklyn Park in Minnesota. She attended high school in the city then went on to the University of Minnesota to study chemistry. In her adult life Freeman decided to return to Brooklyn...
