Afro Nation Ghana is back. After a 3 year hiatus, one of the world’s popular Black music events returns to Africa. It will take place at Marine Drive, Black Star Square in Accra on the 29th & 30th of December 2022. Founded to unite the diaspora to celebrate Black Joy, the event is back for a celebratory trip of Black culture.
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The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival organizers, Goldenvoice, filed a lawsuit against Ghana’s Afrochella for alleged trademark infringement. RollingStone obtained the lawsuit filed in California federal court on Wednesday. It claims that the similarity in the names will create confusion. Read about the lawsuit below: 1. Coachella Sues…
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Award-winning actress Taraji P. Henson is pretty fed up with the strife of living in America. She recently opened up about feeling exhausted as a 51-year-old Black woman having to consistently fight and overcome the pressures of the complex political and social climate in the U.S
When Colombians elected their first leftist president ever on Sunday, they also elected the country’s first Black vice president: Francia Marquez, a single mother who worked as a maid before challenging international mining interests as a fiery environmentalist. Her victory marks a turning point in a country plagued by social inequalities and…
Good news, Reggae music fans! The iconic Reggae Sumfest, the largest reggae festival in the Caribbean, returns this summer after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic. The legendary reggae festival will be held from July 18 to July 23 at Catherine Hall in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Cachaça is to Brazil as tequila is to Mexico. Cachaça (pronounced Ka- sha-sa) was first produced in the early 1500s by Enslaved Africans working in sugar mills who created the cocktail by adding fruits such as lime to cachaça (a Brazilian rum made up of raw sugar cane) during…
Thursday, Global tech giant Google has announced that Google Translate, its multilingual neural machine translation service, has begun offering the possibility of translation into 24 more languages. Ten of the new additions are African languages.
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