Tuesday, August 9 is primary election day in Minnesota. Depending on where you live, there could be multiple races on your ballot or just one thing to vote for. The only statewide race on Tuesday that will be on everyone's ballot is that for the Minnesota Supreme Court, where incumbent Natalie Hudson is facing two challengers. The top two...
By now no one expects African shows put up by African promoters in the Twin Cities to start at the advertised time and indeed throughout the United States, which puts a lot of pressure on the artists to deliver or endure reviews on social media. So expectations were understandably high for Diamond Platnumz's debut performance in Minneapolis last Saturday....
Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District Congressman Keith Ellison's latest community forum will focus on the "The State of East Africa". It will feature USAID Assistant Administrator, Linda Etim who has been in her post for eight months.
The forum is on Monday, August 1 at 5:30PM and will last for 90 minutes. It will be held at the Minneapolis Urban League...
One of Tanzania's most decorated musicians, Diamond (Nasibu Abdul Juma), takes the stage in downtown Minneapolis on Saturday, July 23 at the C'est La Vie across from Target field. It is the location formerly called the Azul Nightclub. The local promoter is veteran Nigerian-American, Larry B.
He is a Bongo Flava artist. Bongo flava is the name given to Tanzanian...
Minnesotans are in for rare treat this weekend when Okpan Arhibo takes the stage at the Country Inn Suites in Coon Rapids on Saturday (July 23). He is on a 15 state tour, marking the first time that an Urhobo traditional musician is performing in the United States according to the national promoter, Dr. Jude Onakpoma, when he spoke...
I couldn’t envision Femi Kuti and the Positive Force squashing onto The Cedar’s stage—not all the horn players, guitar players, drummers, dancers, keyboardist, and the man himself. I also could not imagine his gigantic sound contained indoors, definitely not in a space so small it only holds 600 concert-goers.
But somehow last Friday, July 15th, they did it. Kuti, the...
“How can you not care about 49 people killed in a nightclub,” Femi Kuti asks plaintively over the phone during an interview with Mshale recently. Indeed, this musical master of the Afrobeat who maintains his home in Lagos, Nigeria, does care.
His concern extends beyond his homeland where 86 people lost their lives in Dalori earlier this year as the...
Have you scheduled a back-to-school doctor visit for your preteen or teen? As kids get older, the protection from some of their childhood vaccines begins to wear off. There are also new diseases that teens can come in contact with in this stage of their lives. Keep your teens healthy with the meningococcal, HPV, Tdap, and influenza vaccines.
Vaccines for...
Writing on the blogpost This Is Africa, Malawi journalist Levi Kabwato tackled the much reported story of “Brexit” from his own unique perspective.
“European Union policies towards Africa and the rest of the Global South are unhelpful to the ordinary African,” he began. “It is against this backdrop that we must see Britain’s referendum on the EU and use what...
The U.S. Supreme Court will announce its decision in United States v. Texas between now and the end of June. The outcome will determine the future of two immigration relief programs on hold since Obama first announced them in 2014.
If the Supreme Court sides with the Obama administration, the programs would finally go into effect, providing certain undocumented immigrants...
MINNEAPOLIS - The money transfer landscape in the North America to Kenya corridor is about to undergo a major shakeup with the entry of SawaPay into the market. SawaPay is an app-based service owned by Kenya-based First Choice Global Ltd. It provides 'free' and instant money transfer to receivers' mobile wallets in Kenya, popularly known as M-Pesa.
Kenyans in North...
