Posted on 28 March 2011. Tags: African food, East African Food, Food, recipe, recipes, soup, sweet pea

2 cups chopped onion
2 tsp minced garlic
1 tsp grated fresh peeled ginger
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
1 tbsp homemade garam masala, which we happened to have on hand, OR
1/2 tsp ground black pepper
1 tsp ground coriander seeds
1 tsp ground cumin seeds
1/4 tsp ground cardamom
1/8 tsp ground cloves
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp turmeric
2 tomatoes, chopped
1 sweet potato, ...
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Posted on 29 September 2010. Tags: Black British, Business woman of the year, Dounne Alexander, Food, Grammas, Herbal foods, black women, remedies

Dounne Alexander is the founder of "Grammas" herbal foods and has won such national awards as 'Black Businesswoman of the Millennium' and inclusion in the list of 100 Great Black Britons. She was born in Trinidad, and came to Britain with her parents in 1962. She worked for 22 years as a Chemical/Bacteriological technician and ...
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Posted on 06 April 2009. Tags: American, Easter, English, Food, History, Jamaica, Religion, Tradition, jamaican, stories

KINGSTON, Jamaica – While American families hide colored eggs and eat chocolate bunnies, Jamaica’s tradition of eating Easter bun and cheese, fortune telling and Carnival are the ways this island celebrates this holiday period.
COMMON EASTER TRADITIONS
Easter egg predictions
One of Jamaica's long established practices is the setting of an egg to predict one's future. It is ...
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Posted on 12 March 2009. Tags: Africa, Education, Food, History, News, Orphans, Students, biofuels, farming, poverty, rice, senegal

Senegal-Bonus for rice farmers
For Senegalese rice farmers like Pape Alioune Seck the food crisis is a blessing in disguise in a country that until recently imported three-quarters of this staple from Asia."Two years ago, the Senegalese rediscovered rice from the river valley," said the 32-year-old rice farmer.
The change is answering the dreams of the domestic ...
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Posted on 02 March 2009. Tags: Africa, Africa, African American, Africans, America, American, Americas, Black, Blacks, Business, Community, Discrimination, Food, History, News, Nurse, War, Williams, ethnicity, kids, nigerian, poverty, privacy, schools, society, violence


A look at the position of the average African and average African-American revealed some surprising parallels. For the purpose of simplifying this piece, I will generalize even when I know there are exceptions. I also know Alexander Dumas warned that all generalizations are dangerous, so don’t snap as you read. Treat this as an honest start of an authentic dialogue which all Africans in the Diaspora must have.
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Posted on 01 March 2009. Tags: Africa, Africans, Afro German, America, American, Americas, Black, Blacks, Books, Entertainment, Europe, Films, Food, France, Germany, History, Holocaust, Israel, Murder, Parties, Prison, Racing, Soldiers, Trade, University, War, Women, allegations, children, entertainments, film, justice, race, stories


Like many West European nations, Germany established colonies in Africa in the late 1800s in what later became Togo, Cameroon, Namibia, and Tanzania.
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