BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. - There was not a single empty seat inside the Kenyan Community SDA Church on the day the Kenyan-American community in the United States came to say goodbye to Henry Gichaba. Robbinsdale police, responding to a welfare check call found him dead in his apartment where he lived alone the morning of November 3.
He was 51.
On...
The recent presidential election in Tanzania saw John Pombe Magufuli emerge victorious. His running mate was Samia Suluhu Hassan. The ticket's victory gave the country its first ever female vice president. It is a rarity in Africa and the history making win did not go unnoticed.
Chama Cha Mapinduzi (loosely translated from Swahili as party of the revolution); Magufuli and...
Former Minneapolis Mayor, Sharon Sayles Belton, will be the keynote speaker at Minnesota's Kenya Independence Day Dinner on Saturday, December 12, chairwoman of the Kenya Leadership Group that is planning the dinner announced. The dinner will take place at the DoubleTree by Hilton in St. Louis Park.
The occasion will mark 52 years of Kenya's independence. In Kenya, it is...
There will be a visitation today (November 12) for Henry Gichaba, a Kenyan-American that was found dead in his apartment on November 3 by Robbinsdale police responding to a welfare check call from a concerned relative, as first reported by Mshale. A funeral and memorial service that will double up as a fundraiser for funeral expenses will be held...
MINNEAPOLIS - Politics is a game that for the most part, many of us choose to partake in only as often as we are obligated to. But for Ilhan Omar, who officially kicked off her campaign Tuesday night at the West Bank’s Mixed Blood Theater, politics is about “participating in democracy.” Omar who announced her candidacy in October for...
Ilhan Omar, DFL activist and Director of public policy initiatives at Women Organizing Women (WOW) Network, announced her candidacy for Minneapolis House District 60B in October.
Should she be elected, it will be a historical win, making her the first woman from the Eastern Africa region to be elected to statewide office in the United States.
Omar said in an interview...
African immigrants in the Bay Area are upset that many of them have to go through a secondary review process in order to apply for a California driver’s license under AB 60.
But DMV officials say the reason some countries don’t appear on the list of acceptable passports has to do with security requirements, not geography.
At a recent forum in...
Late night's only millennial host opens up about his first month
On Sept. 28, the final piece of the recast late-night lineup clicked into place with the debut of The Daily Show With Trevor Noah. Replacing an icon like Jon Stewartafter 16 years would be a daunting task for anybody, much less a relative unknown like the 31-year-old South African...
Kenyans and Liberians in Minnesota are in a state of shock after bodies of two members of their communities that share a first name were discovered within 24 hours of each other.
32-year-old Henry McCabe's body was found Monday on Rush Lake in New Brighton at 4:20pm. He was originally from Liberia and resided in the City of Moundsview with...
Earlier this month, Zewdu Negash sat in the lobby of a Minneapolis homeless shelter with a pile of credentials detailing a two-decade experience as a legal professional in Ethiopia.
The résumés showed that Negash has indeed been a well-established legal expert: a prosecutor for the Ethiopian government, an attorney with several private institutions, a judge in Addis Ababa and a...
An Apple Valley Minnesota resident, Brigadier General Jon Jensen, has taken over an additional role as the Deputy Commanding General for U.S. Army Africa. Jensen is the Director of the Joint Staff for the Minnesota National Guard and will continue in that role in addition to his new responsibilities at U.S. Army Africa.
U.S. Army Africa, also known as the...
