Marianne Neba is 18 years old, a native of Cameroon who immigrated to the United States a few years ago and recently graduated from Park Center High school Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. For the last three years, Neba has been a participant of the AGILE/Amakolo African Girls Pathways to Success project offered by the Minnesota African Women Association (MAWA).
Neba has...
The Kenya Diaspora Development Forum of Minnesota (KDDF) has scheduled an official launch for this coming Sunday, September 2 at Brookview Park in Golden Valley at 3:00pm. It is one of two groups in the state jostling for effective representation of the large number of Kenyans resident here. The other is the Kenya Diaspora Advisory Council of Minnesota (KDAC),...
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Thousands of young undocumented immigrants formed long lines at help-centers and churches across the United States last Wednesday to start their process of gaining temporary legal status, under President Obama’s new program to defer deportations for many brought to this country as children.
But others are purposely delaying their applications for the deferred-deportation program — at...
Earlier this month, singer Ahmed Janka Nabay was milling about the Brooklyn warehouse concert venue 285 Kent. In the crowded, windowless confines of the space, he stood out. Mr. Nabay is tall and sinewy, with pencil-thick dreadlocks. And at age 47, he had a good 25 years on most of the crowd. Also, he was probably the only person...
President Obama has been hearing one persistent grumble from the moment he entered the White House. And that’s that he has not said and done enough to boost African-Americans.
It’s been nothing more than a low intensity grumble for two simple reasons. One is that blacks backed him in near record numbers in his 2008 presidential drive. They will back...
The Organization of Liberians in Minnesota (OLM), in collaboration with the City of Brooklyn Park, will host a consultative community forum on the establishment of a national oil policy for Liberia, on Saturday August 18, in Brooklyn Park, Minn.
The event begins at 6 p.m., at the Community Activity Center (5600 85th Ave., Brooklyn Park, MN 55443).
Organized by the National...
IBM is opening its first research center in Africa, capping several years of international marketing by the Kenyan government and visits by IBM officials.
The center will be at Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi and will be a collaboration with the Kenyan Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology, IBM announced Monday.
"IBM has had a presence in Africa for...
With all 7 precincts in the West District of Brooklyn Park reporting last night, Liberian born Wynfred Russell, came within 5 votes of being the first African born person to sit on the Brooklyn Park City Council during a special election Tuesday to fill the remainder of Councilmember Jeanette Meyer who died of cancer on May 20.
The city decided...
For Perpetual Garyeazon, there was only one word to describe her experience last month as she was sworn in as an American citizen during a naturalization ceremony at the Earl Brown Heritage Center in Brooklyn Center.
"(I) am so happy," said Garyeazon, a native of Liberia. A beaming Garyeazon said she was thrilled to be part of the process. She...
The late Joseph Morande Onyambu was born in 1940 to the late Paul Onyambu and Alexina Momanyi at Nyamare Village, Charachani Sub-location, Keera Location, Nyamira District in West Mugirango.
Mzee Morande was the 3rd Born in a family of 8 children: 3 sisters and 5 brothers. He married Yovensia Nyaboke in 1960, and later Maria, Mary, and Josephine respectively.
He was...
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn - Hundreds gathered Sunday at the Brooklyn Junior High School gymnasium for a memorial service to honor the late Joseph Morande Onyambu. Onyambu died Thursday, August 2 in Kisii, Kenya. He was 72.
He was father to prominent Kenyan-American, Paul Morande, on whose account most came to the memorial service as many did not know Mr. Onyambu...