George Bamu, the founder of the U.S.-based 501C (3) non-profit, Africa Agenda, is a journalist, writer, and IT practitioner. A native of Cameroon, Bamu has lived in Aurora, Colorado for more than two decades. **Learn more at AfricaAgenda Dot Org

Exchange Program Connects Africa and Metro Denver

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Today I am shar­ing some insights and pho­tos from a May 21 net­work­ing recep­tion held at the Pos­ner Cen­ter and orga­nized by World Den­ver, for six emerg­ing entre­pre­neurs from Zam­bia and Zim­bab­we respec­tive­ly. The recep­tion brought togeth­er mem­bers of World Den­ver, the host­ing orga­ni­za­tion, ten­ants at the Pos­ner Cen­ter, as well as the pub­lic, to…

Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie

Captain Phillips, Lost Boys highlight ‘Danger of a Single African Story’

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  Chi­ma­man­da Ngozie Adichie is a hero, if not a lit­er­ary star, among today’s gen­er­a­tion of young Africans.  Adichie’s “The dan­ger of a Sin­gle Sto­ry,” a Ted Talk she gave in 2009 about the sin­gle African nar­ra­tive por­trayed by the media that focus­es sole­ly on pover­ty, des­ti­tu­tion, and hope­less­ness, has received more than 6 million…

Africans More Optimistic about Future: Pew Study

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News that the African con­ti­nent is mak­ing progress con­tin­ues to pour in. Not only is the con­ti­nent mak­ing progress eco­nom­i­cal­ly and polit­i­cal­ly, but opti­mism by the African peo­ple is also play­ing a role in this as well. In a recent Pew Research Cen­ter sur­vey of eight nations, the research found that Africans were more opti­mistic about…

Denverite Encouraged by Resilient Spirit of Kenyans

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Sep­tem­ber 21 marked a day of shock and con­fu­sion for many peo­ple in Kenya when news spread of an attack at the West­gate Shop­ping Cen­ter in Nairo­bi’s trendy West­lands neigh­bor­hood, an area fre­quent­ed by many for­eign­ers. A total of 67 peo­ple were report­ed­ly killed in the siege that last­ed about four days. Ter­ror­ists tor­tured, killed,…

Obama Majority Yearning for Real Engagement with Africa

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The recrim­i­na­tions are pour­ing in; Mitt Rom­ney and the GOP lost the elec­tions, big time. What’s the rea­son for the loss? Let’s take a look at what peo­ple are say­ing in Amer­i­ca and beyond. Many pun­dits, includ­ing those who wrong­ly pre­dict­ed the out­come of the elec­tions, attribute the main cause to chang­ing U.S. demo­graph­ics. Ross…

Second Energy Africa Conference to hold in Colorado

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As if to say the world is not doing enough about Africa’s bur­geon­ing busi­ness and invest­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties, the Glob­al Com­merce Forum, which debuted the annu­al Ener­gy Africa Con­fer­ence in 2011, is bring­ing some of the smartest minds in the clean ener­gy busi­ness to Col­orado. They are com­ing to talk about “nat­ur­al gas and renew­ables”, how…

Northern Africa Thrusted into U.S. Presidential Politics

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If you thought for­eign pol­i­cy would remain a non-issue in the cur­rent race for the U.S pres­i­den­cy, think again. While the pun­dits were “talk­ing a good game” about the econ­o­my and jobs, abor­tion, and immi­gra­tion, few had giv­en thought to the obscure movie trail­er post­ed on YouTube, bash­ing Islam,  and the poten­tial con­se­quences it could bring…

Analyzing the GOP Convention for References to Africa

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We’re hear­ing the rum­blings about jobs, tax cuts, abor­tion, immi­gra­tion, and the like as the 2012 U.S. pres­i­den­tial elec­tions enter full gear. We’re also hear­ing much talk about ener­gy pol­i­cy, defense, and such things, from Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma as well as from his Repub­li­can (GOP) chal­lenger, for­mer Gov­er­nor Mitt Rom­ney. As Democ­rats con­vene in Char­lotte, North…