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Sorrow, grief shatter Bronx community after deadly fire
Sorrow welled across a Bronx community Monday, a day after a fire and choking smoke engulfed a high-rise apartment building and claimed the lives...
Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah awarded Nobel literature prize
STOCKHOLM (AP) — U.K.-based Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose experience of crossing continents and cultures has fed his novels about the impact of migration...
What you need to know about Henry Ongeri and why he’s running to be...
A Minnesota based Kenyan-American lawyer says the deteriorating socioeconomic conditions of his people in his home county of Nyamira in Kenya, has spurred his...
Youssou Ndour shakes up Carnegie Hall
NEW YORK - "A singer with a voice so extraordinary that the history of Africa seems locked inside it" is how Rolling Stones once...
Charles Goah, pastor and author, dies at 55
Charles Garjay Goah, a beloved Liberian-American pastor who delivered the gospel to many as the longtime pastor of United Christian Fellowship Church in Minneapolis'...
Family, friends remember and celebrate Henry McCabe
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (Mshale) - Hundreds of community members and high ranking State of Minnesota government employees gathered a week before Christmas to remember...
Hundreds bid farewell to the late Henry Gichaba
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. - There was not a single empty seat inside the Kenyan Community SDA Church on the day the Kenyan-American community in...
Lolla Mohammed Nur: From journalism to poetry
Lolla Mohammed Nur is moving on up! After a year as community engagement editor at the TC Daily Planet, she's now working on another...
Raila Odinga to speak and sign autobiography in Minneapolis on October 18
The former prime minister of Kenya, Raila Odinga, will speak at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs on Friday, October 18...
Teen author Odhiambo wades into the Afrcan Savannah
She is a junior high International Baccalaureate (IB) student. She is intelligent, elegant, passionate and filled with ambition. At 16 years of age, Tori...
What’s Coming Next to Top Gnahoré’s Performance Last Fall?
Two months ago I attended a show by Dobet Gnahoré and her entourage. I’m still waiting for a gig equally as impressive. She performed on November 10th, 2011 at the Dakota Jazz Bar. A packed audience was treated to over 16 polished numbers.