Nasibu Sareva, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at the African Development Center (ADC) has been named Interim Executive Director by the center's board following the August 25 death of Hussein Samatar after complications arising from Leukemia. Samatar was the center's founder and executive director.
Sareva, a native of Tanzania, has since May been in charge of operations at the center...
Today August 28, 2013 is the 50 anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1963 “I have a Dear Speech”. Nobody can deny the concrete progress of African Americans and other people of color, but the terrible legacy of over three hundred years of slavery, nearly one hundred years of separate but equal treatment of African Americans, and nearly sixty...
The military's attention on Africa continues, as its secretive Office of Net Assessment has hired contractor Booz Allen Hamilton to study the continent's future, military documents show.
The Office of Net Assessment is an internal Pentagon think tank that tries to anticipate future needs through a series of studies and war games. Created in 1973, it has been run by...
Hussein Samatar, a Somali-American former banker turned entrepreneur and politician, died yesterday (Sunday, August 25, 2013) following complications from leukemia. He was 45.
His death was relayed to the Mshale newsroom in an email message from the board of directors of the African Development Center at 8:39pm Sunday. Samatar founded the African development Center in 2004.
In a March 6 message...
Obi Emelonye had to battle Lagos airport bureaucrats, indifferent banks and skeptical peers to release his plane-crash thriller, a movie production on a scale rarely seen in Nigeria’s film industry.
“The biggest challenge was negotiating the diplomatic nightmare, potholes, even land-mines — taking over 100 people every day and passing them through security to go air-side with technical equipment,” the...
South African president Nelson Mandela has countless streets named after him, his own foundation, his own fan page and now his own social network.
The website Mandela.is allows users, called "citizens", to connect, share inspirational thoughts, photos and articles in an effort to emulate the apartheid icon’s positive effect on the world.
The site is the brain-child of two Mandela grandsons...
The same morning Hillary Clinton was using her highly visible stature at the recent American Bar Association convention to call for increased protection for Americans’ right to vote, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed a law that strips all residents of same-day voter registration, shortens early voter registration and imposes onerous voter ID requirements.
“We view the attacks on voting...
In 2003 Black Enterprise magazine named Hawthorne's Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery and Grill Inc. one of the top 100 black-owned companies in the United States. And when Hawthorne, Golden Krust's CEO, published a book late last year about his journey from new American to embodiment of the proverbial American dream, newspapers large and small published stories outlining his business struggles and triumphs.
He hasn't...
The Cedar Cultural Center, a top destination for touring artists from Africa like Femi Kuti, Fatoumata Diawara, Habib Koite and others, turns 25 in September.
Editor's note: Mshale is a sponsor of the Cedar's 25th anniversary season.
To celebrate its silver jubilee and thank its supporters, it has scheduled four free concerts in Spetember as it kicks off its 25th season....
In 2006, Mo Abudu experienced what Oprah Winfrey would call an "aha moment", ditching a 20-year career in human resources to try her hand at television.
Seven years later, Abudu's show – Moments with Mo – has featured guests such as Hillary Clinton, Christine Lagarde and Diane von Furstenberg, and is the first TV talkshow to have been syndicated across...
Blitz The Ambassador returns with “African In New York”, the latest track from the Accra, Ghana born New York City residing wordsmith’s forthcoming EP The Warm Up.
Following a sample from Eddie Murphy‘s classic comedy Coming To America, Blitz paints a picture of the lives of a selection of African immigrants who are trying to live the American Dream in...