Posted on 17 September 2009. Tags: Africa, Ants, Bugs, Environment, Ghana

The term cultural shock is very real. A split second of brain overload, a sense of loss coupled with confusion. Like the day I woke sweating and feeling dehydrated. This led me to my newly acquired Tosiba fridge. It was only when i opened it i became conscious of my being in Africa. There was ...
Posted in Africa, Black Britain, Community, Education, Environment
Posted on 29 April 2009. Tags: Adoption, Black, Blacks, British, Colonies, Death, England, Environment, Events, Literature, Markets, Nationalism, Racism, Tradition, Women, actors, comedy, nigeria, writers

Is death the start of the human journey or its end? Is mortality a transition from one sphere of our existence to another - the recurring cycle of life, death and rebirth? From Nobel Literature Laureate Wole Soyinka’s versatile prose emerges a mournful piece of theatre, which isn’t in fear of difficult themes of life ...
Posted in Arts, Black Britain, Black Writing, Blackpresence Supports, Community, Entertainment, Events
Posted on 20 March 2009. Tags: Business, Caribbean, Environment, Investment, Rum, Virgin Islands

The Captain Morgan's rum distillery planned for St. Croix will release no molasses or other effluent into the sea, instead converting it to organic solids suitable for soil enrichment, Diageo officials told the V.I. Coastal Zone Management committee Wednesday. At the committee's public hearing on the Diageo CZM permit in the Henry E. Rohlsen Airport ...
Posted in Business, Caribbean, Community, Environment, News, The Americas
Posted on 28 February 2009. Tags: African American, Environment, Obama, Politics


At the very highest levels of American society, the African American is rendered invisible….
Posted in African American, Politics