Vaccines are a very important part of protecting your children and yourself from some serious diseases. Anyone who has seen a person die or get very sick from a disease that could be prevented by a vaccine knows how important they are.
Immunizing your child is one of the most loving things you can do. Shots work. Shots are safe....
SERRAVAL, FRANCE — The music business recently celebrated a milestone in the form of its first annual revenue growth since 1999, but one region, Africa, was unable to join the party. Digital music, responsible for the improvement in the industry’s brighter overall outlook, has failed to catch on across much of Africa.
But that may be about to change, as...
Chinua Achebe died Thursday, March 21, 2013 at a Boston hospital
Chinua Achebe, the literary giant from Nigeria, passed away last Thursday. In his various writings, Achebe challenged the then Eurocentric perspectives and instead brought an African perspective to the story of colonialism in Nigeria as expounded in his books, Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease. These books...
The Minnesota legislature has named Abdul Omari as a University of Minnesota Regent in action before its Easter break. The University Of Minnesota Board Of Regents is a 12-member board that governs the university. It is the sixth largest public university in the United States in terms of enrolment.
Omari is the son of prominent long-time Twin Cities resident and...
“The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.” From Things...
Jambo Africa Restaurant makes its official debut on Saturday, March 23 starting at noon through 9pm. Located in the same strip mall as the Brooklyn Center Target store, the Kenyan and Liberian themed eatery is already running under the management of George Ndege, he of Kilimanjaro Entertainment and Simone Acolatse, a native of Liberia . The latter started the...
Senators are mulling making it harder for U.S. citizens to get visas for family members while easing the path for high-skilled foreign workers, a senator said.
"We're going to change fundamentally the immigration system," including tighter limits on family visas, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told The Washington Post.
"Right now you get green cards to adult children, to grandparents," Graham said....
A cocktail shaker full of whiskey and juice marks the start of happy hour. But we are not at a bar. This is The Hatchery, a sprawling office space in San Francisco and an incubator for startups. It’s non-stop work here, so a weekly in-house cocktail hour is one perk.
Two entrepreneurs, James Richards, 25, and Michael Smith, 29, take...
Wesley Korir, the Boston marathon champion, has been elected to the Kenya parliament, the polls’ overseeing body, IEBC confirmed.
The 30-year-old Korir, who ran as an independent candidate, defeated the incumbent Joshua Kutuny, a close ally of former education minister and Jubilee Alliance deputy president aspirant, Wiliam Ruto, to clinch the seat in the agricultural-rich district of Cherangany in Kenya’s...
A film about a young Malawian who builds a windmill from scrap metal to save his family from famine last night won the grand jury for best documentary at the just concluded South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) held in Austin, Texas.
"William and the Windmill" directed by Ben Nabors is about Malawi-born William Kamkwamba who has become something of...
Review from the Inquirer
The combination of the cello and the kora, the African 21-string harp, may seem unusual on paper, but it sounds perfectly natural coming from Vincent Segal and Ballaké Sissoko.
In 2009, the French cellist and Malian kora player collaborated on Chamber Music, an album of thoughtful duets, and Segal produces and plays on Sissoko's new album At...
