Colorado ‑Africa Summit Creating Awareness about Africa Opportunities

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In August of this year, Pres­i­dent Oba­ma held an unprece­dent­ed three-day sum­mit in Wash­ing­ton D.C. which brought togeth­er CEOs, Heads of State, and oth­er offi­cials to dis­cuss how to build stronger U.S. — Africa part­ner­ships. The D.C sum­mit result­ed in deals worth bil­lions of dol­lars intend­ed to boost U.S. eco­nom­ic invest­ment in Africa. Africa Agenda…

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…

2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate to Visit Colorado

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Den­ver-based Peace Jam Foun­da­tion has announced that one of the recip­i­ents of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Peace, Liber­ian social work­er, Lemah Gbowee, will vis­it Col­orado in Novem­ber. The announce­ment post­ed on the orga­ni­za­tion’s web­site stat­ed, “Nobel Peace Prize Win­ner Leymah Gbowee will pre­sent­ing the 2012 Peace Jam Hero Award to Edie Lut­nick and Ken…

Colorado Association of Black Journalists Embracing New Media

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The 2007 Annu­al Ban­quet of the Col­orado Asso­ci­a­tion of Black Journalists(CABJ)  took place on August 3 at the Den­ver Mar­i­ott City Cen­ter. The event fea­tured jour­nal­ists and media pro­fes­sion­als all over Col­orado. The theme for the 2007 event was Embrac­ing New Media. Awards were pre­sent­ed to jour­nal­ists in var­i­ous cat­e­gories, includ­ing Broad­cast, Pub­lic Rela­tions, and…

Sierra Leone Independence Day

Coloradans Gather for Sierra Leone’s Independence Day Celebration

Africans and African Americans, Africans in Colorado, Culture and Society, Headline, West Africa

April 27 marked 62 years since the African nation of Sier­ra Leone attained its inde­pen­dence from Great Britain.  The local com­mu­ni­ty of Sier­ra Leoneans in Col­orado did not want this impor­tant his­tor­i­cal event to pass by silent­ly. So, they sent out invi­ta­tions, pre­pared dish­es, ordered a vari­ety of drinks, and gath­ered in the halls of…

African Community Resources

These African com­mu­ni­ty resources — links and pages to elect­ed offi­cials, soc­cer clubs, African-led busi­ness­es and orga­ni­za­tions, gro­cery stores, church­es, etc — are designed to give quick, easy access to the ser­vices that the com­mu­ni­ty needs and desires.  African Com­mu­ni­ty Resources Immi­gra­tion Lawyers https://africanewsmatters.com/colorado-immigration-lawyers/ Schol­ar­ship for Inter­na­tion­al Stu­dents https://africanewsmatters.com/scholarship-for-international-students/ Africa’s Top Com­pa­nies https://africanewsmatters.com/africas-top-companies/ African Diaspora…

Cameroonians in America

Accord­ing to the 2010 Unit­ed States Cen­sus, there are an esti­mat­ed 17,000 Amer­i­cans of Cameroon­ian descent in the US. In addi­tion, Cameroo­ni­ans in Amer­i­ca have formed many groups that cater to the needs of their com­mu­ni­ties, includ­ing immi­gra­tion and asy­lum issues, edu­ca­tion­al devel­op­ment, pol­i­tics, reli­gion, busi­ness, and devel­op­ment. In our research at Africa News Matters…

My Skin Global —Raising Awareness about the Dangers of “Skin Bleaching”

Africans and African Americans, Colorado, Headline

  Skin Bleach­ing or “col­orism” among peo­ple of col­or is a top­ic that rarely comes up in com­mu­ni­ty dis­cus­sions in the Unit­ed States or in African coun­tries. The prac­tice is also known as “skin light­en­ing.” It involves the use of chem­i­cal prod­ucts by most­ly black and brown peo­ple to help change or light­en their complexion…