ST. PAUL, Minn. (Mshale) - Books for Africa (BFA) held its annual fundraiser luncheon Thursday at the Town and Country Club with 300 people attending. This year's African ambassador speaker was Dr. Ngosa Simbyakula, the ambassador of Zambia to the United States. Sponsored by Thomson Reuters, Bremer Bank, Lerner and the University Club, the event was expected to raise...
American actress Tiffany Haddish, who has always taken pride in her Eritrean roots, this week officially gained citizenship of her father's birthplace. Her father, Tsihaye Reda Haddish, moved to the United States as a refugee before Haddish was born. She went there last year to bury him and is back this week for the country's 28th Independence anniversary.
During last...
Newly elected regent Mike Kenyanya has a lot to look forward to. Upon completion of his bachelor's degree, Kenyanya has been awarded one of Minnesota’s highest seats in public education. The youngest of five, Kenyanya moved to the United States at the age of five with his family of seven.
“We were hosted and moved around a few times” said...
Abraham Bah, the incumbent chair of the Organization of Liberians in Minnesota board, easily secured his seat in the organization in an otherwise fiercely contested election that was conducted all day Sunday at the Liberian Community Center. Voters went to the polls to fill six seats in the OLM board that attracted 13 candidates, including four incumbents. Voters were...
Mshale photojournalist, Bethel Gessesse, will be exhibiting and selling her photos at this weekend's Art-A-Whirl in Northeast Minneapolis. Art-A-Whirl is dubbed as the largest open studio tour in the country, featuring artwork of nearly 800 artists in every medium at more than 60 locations.
Gessesse will showcase some of the most requested photos that have appeared in Mshale and other...
Liberians will go to the polls on Sunday, May 19 from 7am to 7pm to fill six board positions in the Organization of Liberians in Minnesota. There are 13 candidates vying for the positions, among them four incumbents that are seeking reelection. OLM board chair Abraham Bah is among those on the ballot on Sunday.
Th thirteen candidates include a...
The Minneapolis City Council's Housing Policy & Development Committee voted 4-1 Wednesday to confirm the appointment of Sharmarke M. Issa as a member of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority board of commissioners and board chair designee, following his appointment by Mayor Jacob Frey. The lone No vote was by Councilwoman Lisa Goodman who stated she was not voting against...
New faces will join the Council for Minnesotans of African Heritage after appointments made by Minnesota governor Tim Walz last week.
In a press statement, Walz announced the appointment of Liberian-American Wayne Doe of Shoreview, Twauna Mullins of Woodbury and Nigerian-American Jude Nnadi of Brooklyn Center. The three will serve four-year terms effective May 6 with their terms expiring on...
In 1994 over the span of one hundred days nearly one million members of the Tutsi minority group lost their lives to genocide in Rwanda. Denise Uwimana-Reinhardt along with her three sons survived the massacre. After healing from her personal trauma, Uwimana has made it her mission to help Rwandans and those who have been affected by genocide across...
The Minneapolis Foundation recently announced the appointment of Khadija Ali, DeAndre Cunningham, and Michael Rodriguez to their board of trustees. The three will serve four year terms. The foundation is one of the largest in the state in terms of charitable contributions raised and grants it gives. In the last fiscal year it raised over $100 million and in...
Somali-American model, Halima Aden, will be featured in the annual Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition wearing a hijab and burkini, becoming the first model in SI history to do so. The edition comes out next week on May 8th.
Eden, 21, was photographed by Yu Tsai on the shore of Watamu Beach in Kenya, her birth country where she lived until...
