The current fellowship offer is for candidates interested in starting NYU Wagner’s two-year Master of Public Administration program, or the one-year Master of Science program (for mid-career candidates only) with a start date of late August, 2009.

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 [...]

Linking physicians to a single network has profound implications for a country’s health care system. With that in mind, Brian Levine, a fourth year medical student at the New York University school of medicine, decided to set up an online social networking site so doctors all over Ghana could collaborate with each other.

Meet Jackie O. Asare the CEO/President of the New York based 4Sight Media Relations Inc.

Sammy Okposo - Best Gospel Artist for 2007. Check out other winners.

I remember hearing the song, “Chikende”, on an African radio station two years ago. I instantly fell in love with that song and the cd, “Pachedu”. Of course, I had to find out who the artist was. I met the artist several times in NY but I never got a chance to [...]

AfricanLoft author Pammy Stitch interviews Oliver Mbamara, one of Africa’s top notch movie director. Oliver is a man of many talents; aside from directing and producing movie, he’s an attorney, writer, and a poet. He co-directed the controversial movie “This America” and recently did Slave Warrior: The Beginning -the movie tells the slavery story from the African perspective. After watching Slave warrior, a cultural epic story, I knew that I just had to meet Oliver. Meet Oliver…

From Laolu Akande, New York
HONOUR has again come the way of another Nigerian in the United States (US). Dr. Chamberlain Peterside, a New York-based financial executive, who was honoured last week by the U.S. House of Representatives for his distinguished contributions to his local community.
A Nigerian lawyer, Shamsey Oloko, was recently named a member of [...]

U.S names Nigeria’s Oloko in judicial body. From Laolu Akande, New York
A NIGERIAN-born United States (U.S.) lawyer has risen to the heights of legal practice in the U.S. as he has been named to the New York State Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commission. It is another in the series of Nigerian professionals making their mark [...]