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Beloved Kenyan-American community leader in Minnesota dies of coronavirus
Minnesota's Kenyan community is grieving the loss of an influential community leader, Thomas Nyambane, to coronavirus. Nyambane, affectionately referred to as Dr. Nyambane, was...
Thomson Reuters and Books for Africa mark milestone of 100 law libraries to Africa
EAGAN, Minn (Mshale) - Books for Africa, the largest shipper of donated school text books to Africa, and Thomson Reuters which donates law books...
North Central and Maakhir become sister universities
North Central University in Minneapolis and Maakhir University located in the semi-autonomous federal state of Puntland in Somalia have entered into a “sister university"...
Allianz Life taps Cecilia Stanton Adams for new position of Chief Diversity and Inclusion...
Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America announced today that it created a new Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer (CDIO) position, and has hired...
Winnie Byanyima is new executive director of UNAIDS
Winnie Byanyima is the new executive director of UNAIDS, the joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS that leads and inspires the world to achieve...
Black lawmakers debrief on 2019 Minnesota legislative session
A quote from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s last book Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, a collection of essays he penned...
Atlantis 13 will feature at Momentum New Dance Festival
Choreographers Jonathan (AJ) van Arneman and Peace Madimutsa use the stories from hundreds of years ago, presenting the re-imagined story of a whitewashed history,...
Somalia’s foreign minister says diaspora playing key role in rebuilding country
MINNEAPOLIS (Mshale) - Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Ahmed Isse Awad, spoke Monday at a Global Minnesota event about his country’s...
St. Cloud State University deepens ties with Nelson Mandela University
When Mumbi Mwangi wrote her doctoral dissertation in 1998 she had advocacy on her mind. She went a step further to include letters in...
Hamse Warfa appointed assistant commissioner at Minnesota DEED
Somali-American entrepreneur, Hamse Warfa, was named the Department of Employment and Economic Development’s (DEED) Assistant Commissioner for Economic Opportunity on March 22nd. The appointment...
Mshale Editorial: The growing influence of Africa-born politicians in Minnesota politics
Editor's note: This editorial first appeared in the February print edition of Mshale.
Last month after the swearing-in into office of a historic number of...