Denverite Encouraged by Resilient Spirit of Kenyans

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,…

Second Energy Africa Conference to hold in Colorado

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…

Building Aurora’s Future

Africa Agen­da has been select­ed to be the spot­light non-prof­it that will help show­case this year’s Build­ing Aurora’s Future. Build­ing Aurora’s Future is in its sec­ond year and was start­ed by Auro­ra City Coun­cil mem­ber Ryan Fra­zier as a way to bring togeth­er a com­mu­ni­ty that “lives, works and plays togeth­er.” This year, the focus…

Colorado Association of Black Journalists Embracing New Media

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…