Chuka Harrison Umunna is a British Labor lawmaker who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Streatham since 2010 and was Shadow Business Secretary from 2011 to 2015. Umunna was conceived in London, England. His dad Bennett, of the Nigerian Igbo ethnic group and his mother Patricia Milmo, a specialist, is of English-Irish background. …
(CNN) My school years in the US were marked by many heated debates between African and African-American students about who was guiltier for the transatlantic slave trade: whites or Africans? Who should pay whom or who should apologize to whom? In retrospect, I should have advocated more for reconciliation among people of African descent rather …
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They say music is a universal language, Well we couldn’t agree more because this is so true. This means that you don’t have to understand what is being said to dance to the music or rhythm. Once you can connect to the beats of the music and you are good to go. There are so …
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Saran Kaba Jones is the Founder and CEO of FACE Africa, a group advancement association attempting to reinforce water, sanitation and cleanliness (WASH) framework and administrations in provincial groups crosswise over sub-Saharan Africa. Saran was born in Liberia however left in 1989 at the age of eight before the nation’s civil war started. Saran spent …
Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu — the pioneer and creator of the SoleRebels footwear brand — believes that the fame of the coffee market can be found in the coffee’s birthplace, her native home Ethiopia. After over a time of building SoleRebels into a worldwide footwear and cowhide merchandise mark that consolidates conventional Ethiopian craftsmanship and …
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MIPAD is a unique global list that identifies 200 high achievers, under the age of 40, of African descent in public and private sectors worldwide, 100 inside Africa, and 100 outside Africa in the Diaspora. From Eldrick “Tiger” Woods the most successful golfer of all time to the highest paid CEO in Africa, James Mworia, …
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DURBAN, South Africa, 3 May 2017,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/-Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD), a global civil society initiative whose efforts emanate from the International Decade for People of African Descent, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly, will unveil its 2017 honorees in the Business and Entrepreneurship category during the World Economic Forum …
Lagos, Nigeria. March 25, 2017 – It is with great honor we unveil the 2017 Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) global list to recognize the positive contributions made by people of African descent in public and private sectors worldwide. MIPAD is a unique global list that identifies, in total, 200 outstanding individuals under …
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