Obama addresses some 200,000 in Berlin, Germany today.
“People of the world – look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one…”

Read the full text of the speech in the Lounge

Ayo
…Her music cuts deep into the soul massaging it with her soothing voice and powerful lyrics to release honesty, cleansing, healing, happiness, relaxation and hope. Born in Cologne Germany to a Nigerian father and a gypsy Romanian mother.
Catch her interview on Ladybrille.com
Excerpt:
“I came up with a name for my music because it is so [...]

Are you one of those African males overseas that “don’t like African women”?
BRE, an American Afrophile blogger recounts his experience with one of such males in Germany. He blogs via Jewels of the Jungle:
Yesterday I had a brief conversation with a young Nigerian male friend of mine and as we were talking two young [...]

Via Sokari/Black Looks:
“Muddy uneducated uncivilized people who need to be educated (probably by any random westerner)” this is Black Looks’ blog post of the controversial UNICEF (Germany) ads. She writes in follow-up post:
Good to know that making the effort to write can work and that some organisations do listen.
Related post: Helping Africa: Where Are the [...]

I’m still trying to figure out what happened at Heiligendamm? Was it a success as claimed by the G8 Summit 2007 host country Germany and some members of the German press and media, or was it a bust as described by Bob Geldof and Bono and other high-profile activists and various experts? If the G8 Summit at Heiligendamm was a success then a success for whom, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel?I’m not as disappointed and pessimistic about the outcome of these talks as some people seem to be but at the same time you have to wonder, are the G8 Summits relevant anymore? Were they ever useful in helping to solve the world’s problems? It has all become such a circus for the politicians and every group under the sun to voice their outrage and anger about all kinds of causes that have little or nothing to do with the summit agendas that one has to ask, why bother?