I love Obama for what he stands for, and for what he has done, to get to where he is today. And I will most likely vote for him for those reasons, not because he is black, like me.
But this is not how some of my countrymen in Nigeria see him. He’s their [...]

Prospect Park, Brooklyn was the place to be on Sunday August 3rd 2008, [click to watch video footage] - as popular African guitarists took the stage and wowed the listening audience with different sounds from Africa.
Here is a photo slide of the event:

The Guitar series was a seven hour [...]

Today marks the 10th anniversary of near-simultaneous bombings at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The attacks killed more than 200 people. Watch VOA news video footage of the memorial.

Additional coverage available here, with video footages.

Douye is a Nigerian-America singer/songwriter based in Los Angeles, CA. Douye’s musical style is smooth jazz, soul, and R&B.

Since 9/11 the whole world has been staring at the war on terror, completely ignoring the small battles which have been much more successful then the most technologically advanced military and paramilitary campaigns.
In a world in which more and more people are getting what they want by the power of gun, West Africa is [...]

On Thursday, July 24, 2008, a 50-year old Nigerian man Michael Collins Iheme shot and killed his 28-year old estranged wife, Anthonia Iheme, in her work parking lot. Witnesses say Michael fired several shots into her car then ran into another car and drove away. Shortly after the crime, he called 911 and [...]