Oct 4, 20112 min read
National Conference: IYFPOAD
On Friday, I was privileged enough to attend the National Conference celebrating the International Year of People of African Descent...
Sep 29, 20111 min read
Growing up Naija
Growing up Naika is a hilarious concept. I can just imagine these experiences, even though I didn’t grow up in Africa. I know if my...
Sep 20, 20113 min read
Africa and the Creative Discourse
In May 2010, I went to the PUMA.Creative Mobility Award Recipients to Contribute to Forum Entitled, Distance, Diaspora and Aesthetics in...
Aug 15, 20111 min read
Black means Different things in Different places
I love about the identity battles of Africans in the diaspora. Everybody’s experience of the issue is different yet the same. I can...
Jul 30, 20111 min read
Embracing Otherness, Embracing Myself
Actress Thandie Newton gives an interesting and insightful talk about ‘Embracing otherness’ for the TEDGlobal 2011. She tells the story...
Jul 24, 20116 min read
Identity Battle
Africa 2 Australia: Do I really belong here? is an online documentary about the experiences of Africans who have now settled in...
Jul 7, 20111 min read
Next Door Neighbours: Sudanese
Nashville Public Television’s Next Door Neighbors series explores Nashville’s Sudanese community. Refugee resettlement to the United...
Jul 6, 20111 min read
Lagos stories
Lagos Stories takes an in-depth look into one of the most fascinating and populated cities in the world as seen through the eyes of its...
Jul 1, 20114 min read
Things that occur when growing up African
I was supposed to be figuring out how to design a website and instead I was enthralled in the videos of Christiana Rants! on her blog. I...
May 27, 20111 min read
Africa Day
I honestly did not know that there was such a thing as ‘Africa Day’!!! I owe some my Afroklectic Facebook fans a big thank you for...
Feb 19, 20111 min read
The Tribe: The Turkana people
The Turkana are a Nilotic people (refers to some ethnic groups from southern Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, and Northern Tanzania, who speak...
Jan 15, 20112 min read
Homeward
Homeward by Bassey Ikpi brought back memories from the first time I went to Ghana (2004). When I first arrived, I told a few people that...
Jan 14, 20111 min read
Save Busuu
Busuu is a language spoken by only 8 people in the entire world. To avoid its extinction, we decided to travel to a remote village in...
Dec 23, 20102 min read
The Desmond’s
The Demond’s a few weeks ago when I was looking for something to watch on Channel 4OD on Youtube.You could say that it was the British...
Dec 18, 20101 min read
the family
I remember watching an advert about a documentary called ‘The Family‘ a few weeks ago when I was at a relatives house. I was quite...
Dec 10, 20101 min read
world festival of Black arts and culture
SOURCE: NY TIMES via THIS IS AFRICA & AFRICAN COLOURS “The theme of this festival is the African Renaissance. It’s about the Africa we...
Nov 24, 20101 min read
ancient Africa
SOURCE: SARAH PARTRIDGE via THIS IS AFRICA “Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the...
Nov 21, 20101 min read
the African way
BBC Africa correspondent Andrew Harding asks if the practice is out of convenience, habit or culture? He says he always “assumed it was a...
Nov 16, 20102 min read
the tribe: Shilluk Woman
SOURCE: ADJ Shilluk Woman, Sudan I found this image on the tumblr ADJ. The image was original black and white, but I love the way it has...
Mar 16, 20101 min read
the art of kente
Kente is traditional Ghanaian fabric made of interwoven cloth strips with cotton and silk threads. It is a royal and sacred cloth worn...