Some Insights into Democracy and How it can work in Nigeria.

Democracy promotes the same sets of value no matter where it is practiced. Simple definition implies that government is made up of people, and should serve the people. In order to enjoy the fruits (or as we call it in Nigeria, the dividends) of democracy, all its various components i.e. people and its legal frame work of operation (constitution) will have to work hand in hand. We also want to emphasize that greed, fraud and corruption,

Happy 2014 to you & yours!
I'm sharing an article my husband wrote about Black films and Black support of those films. Enjoy!

Well, Happy Saturday!!! Today, I found myself doing something I RARELY do...read something that is not education-related!!! I LIKE THAT! But, I want say something about what I read...it has made me reflect on something I have talked about among friends over the last few years.
 I picked up the Dec/Jan issue of Ebony, and read the featured article "Men of Honor", featuring F

Marvin X interview on KPFA and KPOO radio stations about his friend Amiri Baraka

Marvin X will be interviewed about his friend Amiri Baraka by KPFA's (www.kpfa.org) Greg Bridges, Monday, 8pm. On Tuesday he will be interviewed by Terry Collins  of KPOO (www.kpoo.org radioa bout his 50 year friendship with AB. 

Baraka had invited Marvin X to read at a tribute for poet Jayne Cortez at New York University, Feb 4, 2014. The tribute will go on, we assume with a tribute to Baraka as well. 

Marvin X invite

                                               Tech accelerator 88mph has announced that it will invest US1.5 million in a selection of start-ups in Nigeria and will open an accelerator in Lagos. Interestingly they are also looking at raising what they call “baby series A funding” to help more of their start-ups to get out of the starting blocks. I spoke this week to Dan Bowyer, Programme Director at 88mph in Cape Town.

88mph has created two accelerators in Africa: one in Nairobi and the other

• System Helps Black Business Obtain Funding

• Live online business class to be held on Jan 25, 2014
  Joya O. Johnson, CEO of Positive Minded Sisters (PMS) Financial Services, LLC

Finance experts are elated as Joya O. Johnson, CEO of Positive Minded Sisters (PMS) Financial Services, LLC has finally rolled out her much anticipated Business Finance Suite to help African-American owned businesses obtain funding.

Positive Minded Sisters (PMS) Financial Services, LLC has released a first of its kind ca

Fifty years ago today, before a joint session of Congress, President Lyndon Baines Johnson announced an "unconditional war on poverty in America." Today, black activists with the Project 21 leadership network are critical of how that war has been waged. They note the expansion of government and a

Saafara West African Herbal Teas Crowdfunding Campaign

San Francisco-based Saafara Herbal Teas has launched an Indiegogo.com crowdfunding campaignto gain community support in their goal to become a premier “Brand Recognized” name in the herbal tea market. Saafara seeks to innovate the herbal tea market by providing delicious, caffeine-free herbal teas, from the refreshing and stress-busting Savanna Mint, to the citrusy after-meal soother White Hibiscus and powerful healing superfood Seh-Ha

This piece was initially written as an email to two Elders who have often bemoaned the lack of unity that we as African people have demonstrated over these many generations since the Ma'afa (a Twi word meaning "great disaster", used by Pan-Afrikan historians and activists to describe the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, the Arab Slave Trade, the Scramble for Africa and the suffering African people have endured as a result).  I meant it as a helpful response to their question (which was probably rheto

                                                              From The Ramparts

                                             Junious Ricardo Stanton

                       International Bankers Are the Blame For the US Financial Implosion

“The latest stage in the bankruptcy hearings has highlighted the role of the banks in wrecking municipal and family finances across the country. Detroit had one of the highest percentages of subprime loans—many from Countrywide, which was taken over by Bank of Am

Atlanta Prepares for National African-American History Month Celebration

An annual celebration of black history that brings together people from all over the world. Held in the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr./ Sweet Auburn District a National Historic Landmark located in Atlanta, Georgia.

The city of Atlanta is home to many African-American events, legends, history and most notably home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. One of the major events that is held in Atlanta is a cultural celebration that encompa

“Ubuhle Women…recognizes the powerful cultural currents and back stories from the artists as central to their every stitch. …Art is often what happens when our life experiences become too big for our words,” notes Lonnae O’Neal, Washington Post, 12/27/13

Washington, D.C., December 31, 2013 / PRNewswire / — The intersection of artistic ingenuity and women’s empowerment is explored in two new exhibitions, “Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence” (main gallery) and “Home Sewn: Quilts f

How many of us truly possess the divine knowledge, wisdom and understanding of what a relationship is and what

XVIII Festival Mundial de la Juventud y los Estudiantes, organizado por la Federación Mundial de la Juventud Democrática (FMJD), Quito, Ecuador, del 8 -13 de diciembre de 2013.

B.F.Bankie

1. Dr Kwame Nkrumah. ANTECEDENTES:

Kwame Nkrumah probablemente nació el 21 de septiembre de 1909 en el pueblo ghanés de Nkroful, Costa de Oro. Fue bautizado con el nombre de Francis por la Iglesia católica apostólica romana. Fue hijo único por parte de su madre. Estudió durante 8 años en la escuela católic

Paper for the 18^thWorld Festival of Youth and Students, convened by World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY), held Quito, Ecuador, 8 – 13 December 2013

by B.F. Bankie

The Youth

Forums such as this convened by the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) are important spaces to remind, mobilize and energize young people around the world, as well as the progressive forces globally, of the responsibility they have to transform society. The technology today in the form of the internet and so

From the 2013 Native American Music Awards, Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor, a soul- funk- jazz musical artist and member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe took home two Top Nominee medals and an offer from Donald Blackfox to join the Spirit Wind Records family of traditional and contemporary Native American recording artists.

Mwalim, a veteran songwriter, producer, session and touring musician has been recording and releasing albums on his own LMMGM label since 1990, interrupted by a stint at a major la