Ghana is set to compete in its first Winter Olympics event at the Vancouver Games. Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong will make his debut in the Men's Slalom, scheduled for February 27th. The 35 year-old Scottish-born athlete only took up skiing six years ago while working at an indoor ski center in England, and has come a long way since becoming a winter Olympian.
A nine-piece music group from Bulawayo is proving that disability is not inability after landing an Oscar nomination for Short Documentary.
Twin brothers torn apart by a woman and brought together by necessity. The abandoning father who must care for his son.
Author Abraham Verghese speaks with New America radio on his book Cutting for Stone.
It’s been a year since President Barack Obama signed the $787 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus package. The largest public investment in America’s infrastructure since the Great Depression, Obama called it “the most sweeping economic recovery bill in our history.”
Love, loyalty, friendship and betrayal in a family during the Ethiopian Civil War are depicted in Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste.
Subhash Kateel thinks impatience with President Obama's immigration agenda has begun to boil over. An immigrant advocate in Florida, Kateel says there is a potent mix of frustration and disappointment percolating through immigrant communities nationwide.
US Census director, Dr. Robert Groves, sought to assuage fears about the census when he brought the census road tour to Minneapolis on Thursday at the invitation of US congressman Keith Ellison..
LAS VEGAS - Kenya advanced to the final four of this year's USA Sevens but could not get to the final as they were stopped by a determined New Zealand after a 21-7 score. South Africa, the defending USA Sevens champions, could not repeat the feat this year, managing to only reach the quarter finals.
In the past eight years, U.S. trade with sub-Saharan Africa has more than doubled as Africans improve their lives and livelihoods while exporting an ever-expanding list of goods to the United States, says Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis.
Last week Arise magazine showcased three African designers at New York Fashion Week. The designers painted a confident and accomplished triptych of fashion from the continent.
A soaring talent is heading for New York Fashion Week, writes Andrea Nagel of South Africa's Times Live
This year is big for Anisa Mpungwe, the creator of the clothing label Loin Cloth & Ashes, but then, she's had a big year every year for the past three years.
In 2008, she won the Elle New Talent competition which attracts young design talent from around the country. Mpungwe's fresh, unique and meticulously presented garments won her the coveted prize of "Young Designer of the Year".
