So Blacks Can Invent? Is a groundbreaking book that highlights the inventions by people of African descent globally. Written by Keith C. Holmes, an American who painstakingly spent over twenty years researching and gathering information on thousands of inventions by Black people from the years 1769 to 2007, the book is an inspiring must read [...]
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African Diaspora
Racism Is Alive & Well …In Italy
on September 16th, 2013
Cecile Kyenge, formerly from the Democratic Republic of Congo, is Italy’s first Black Minister. Since her appointment as head of the Integration Ministry in April she has faced racial slurs and threats on an almost daily basis including being called an orangutan by the Senator from the Anti-Immigrations Northern League Party
Vis-à-vis with Author Gillian Creese The New African Diaspora In Vancouver
on October 31st, 2011
There is a lot of focus on the large immigrant communities in Canada – especially the Chinese and South Asian groups – but little attention to groups that are much smaller in numbers, and because they are small in numbers, have fewer community resources to draw on in settlement
Human Capital and Cultural Freedom
on June 9th, 2010
Achieving our economic and political goals need to be shaped by a set of Afrocentric norms. When we can do this we as a people will be transformed and move forward as a whole African people rather than several fragments.
Developing Cross-Cultural Leadership for the African Diaspora
on March 13th, 2010
By Frank T. Scruggs: The Afro News International The African Diaspora has many issues that are not unique to one faction. A large number of African people sometimes think that the problems of the entire African Diaspora are a responsibility and a universal obligation. In many cases this holds true but effective leadership locally is [...]
The African Diaspora and the Wealth Paradigms of Corporations
on February 5th, 2010
Most current corporate paradigms proceed from a Western perspective that holds technological, economic and political/military advantages.
Think Globally: Changing Population, Environment and Food
on December 7th, 2009
By Frank T. Scruggs M.A.Ph.D. The Afro News USA International When venturing away from one’s own city, town or village a keen sense of the vastness of the African Diaspora becomes apparent. Even more people of African descent populate our planet when serious consideration is given to Keith O. Hilton’s TALO theory which explores the [...]
Developing a Universal Strategic Plan for the African Diaspora
In spite of the gains made, the work that remains to be done is to regain all of the wealth of the African people, which like our history seemed to have been “lost, stolen or strayed.” Economic empowerment is the vehicle needed to provide the exodus from poverty, political marginalization, racism and oppression to economic autonomy and self-reliance.