by Tiki Black | Nov 15, 2018 | Life and Culture, Our Heroes
I write a lot about and mainly for the living. I avoid the safe cushions of posthumous eulogies that protect me from future disappointments that are most common to living perpetrators. Plus, the living and unsung heroes need to be reminded of the impossible battles...
by The African Counter | Oct 29, 2018 | Cultural Celebrations, Life and Culture
The Ngondo Festival is the major cultural celebration that takes place yearly by the Wouri river, in the city of Douala, Cameroon. This traditional and mystical feast is a yearly ritual around water which is held by and brings together the Sawa ethnic groups who are...
by Anthony Mouyoungi | Jun 3, 2016 | Artists and Artisans, Music, Music Artists, Our Heroes
Plus de quarante ans après sa tragique disparition, la voix de Franklin raisonne toujours. Les thèmes abordés dans ses chansons sont toujours d’actualité. Ce qui fait de lui un immortel au même titre que ceux qu’il citait dans son morceau ‘Les immortels’. Dans cette...
by Llinford Sweeney | Jan 2, 2016 | Life and Culture
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, the Black author, activist and psychiatrist whose 1991 work The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors, introduced the world to the “melanin theory” and the “neuroses” of white supremacy, transitioned and became an ancestor. She was 80 years...
by The African Counter | Aug 30, 2015 | Life and Culture
The African diaspora is spread across the world, soaking up cultures as diverse and rich as their own and enriching their already amazing heritage with exotic perspectives. Naturally a nomadic race, the African individual already moved around inside their own...
