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Still Number One. Percent.

Still Number One. Percent.

African-American founders continue to receive venture capital scraps. From Dominic-Madori Davis via TechCrunch / "The latest Crunchbase data shows that Black startup founders in the United States raised around $264 million out of the total $33.6 billion in venture capital allocated in Q4 2022. That’s an uptick from

Not What It Seems?

Not What It Seems?

Understanding the African startup scene requires going beyond the numbers. | From Samuel Gebre via Bloomberg / "African startups raised a record $5.3 billion last year, though that may be the high-water mark as a deepening slump in the technology industry reduces the funding pool. While investment in 2022 exceeded

Setting the Table

Setting the Table

Participate in this online special event from Black Perspectives, starting January 9, 2023. | From Black Perspectives / "Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’ Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for

Storybook Beginnings

Storybook Beginnings

Squid Magazine co-founder, Kofi Sydney Asare, identifies some great tales and games for us to look forward to... | From Squid Magazine / "2023 is shaping up to be an amazing year for African creative projects! In the face of challenges like the global economic downturn last year, and spurred on

A 2023 Reading List

Our World Weekly

A 2023 Reading List

Our fellow African Book Addict gives us some great titles to anticpate. From Darkowaa at African Book Addict / "I’ve compiled 102 new African, African-American, Black-Brit and Caribbean books that look very promising. Please note – this list/collage is just a snippet of books by Black authors 2023 has

"Reputable" Africans

Our World Weekly

"Reputable" Africans

The list from RPI includes Kenya’s Amina Chawahir Mohamed, South Africa’s Bonang Mohale, Chancellor at the University of the Free State and Professor at Johannesburg Business School, and Cameroon’s Njoya Tikum, Manager of the UNDP Regional Office in West and Central Africa. | From Reputation Poll / 50 Most

Keeping the Flame

Pan-African Food Festival

Keeping the Flame

Event: February 11, 2023 | From the Museum of the African Diaspora / "After his inaugural seven-year tenure as MoAD’s Chef-in-Residence, James Beard award winning chef and author Bryant Terry is passing the torch to his longtime colleague and collaborator Jocelyn Jackson. They worked on the first Diaspora Dinner together

Our World Weekly

Books of Art

The vanguard at Culture Type has identified the 18 best art books of 2022. | From the eminent Victoria Valentine /

Ajami Remains

The long used African writing system continues to more fully come to light. | From Molly Callahan via The Brink at Boston University / "What (Fallou) Ngom realized—slowly, and then with a bang—is that his father’s notes were just the beginning. He had proof that a centuries-old writing

A Historical Landmark

A Historical Landmark

Hakim's Bookstore in Philadelphia is being honored as an offiicial Philly landmark. As it should be. | From Victoria Woodill via CBS Philadelphia / In just a few weeks, the small storefront that houses hundreds of works by African American authors will receive a big honor. It will soon be

Just Build It

Artist Kehinde Wiley is doing things, and now also building things. | From Julian Lucas via The New Yorker / In May, Wiley made his début in Dakar as a global patron of the arts. His Pan-African Xanadu, Black Rock Senegal, had opened three years earlier, with an all-night party where musicians

What to Read

Open Country Mag offers their take on the year's best books from African writers. | About Open Country Mag / "From culture icon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to transformational artists Teju Cole and Damon Galgut, to groundbreaking advocates Tsitsi Dangarembga and Maaza Mengiste, to the next generation of voices, Open

The Future of Tej?

Pan-African Food Festival

The Future of Tej?

Kaleab Girma considers the evolution of Ethiopia's lesser known national beverage. Via SHEGA / "Tej is a traditional honey wine that holds a special place in the hearts of Ethiopians. It is made by mixing together honey, water, wild yeast, twigs, and the leaves of Gesho, which acts

The Spirit of Struggle

The Spirit of Struggle

Cornel West and Panashe Chigumadzi contemplate how Desmond Tutu worked to reconcile "African" and "Black" theology. | Via Boston Review / "While many across the world remember postapartheid Tutu as the purple-robed presider of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, who tried to reconcile Black and white South

Dig This.

Zeinab Mohammed Salih and Jason Burke report on the growing number of homegrown African archeologists. | Via The Guardian/ "Heading down one staircase are Sabrine Jamal, Nadia Musa, Athar Bela and Sabrine al-Sadiq, all studying archaeology at Khartoum University. Not one of them is older than 24 and they see

Diasporican - The Cookbook.

Pan-African Food Festival

Diasporican - The Cookbook.

Illyanna Maisonet shares ingredients to help satisfy the longings for a deeper culinary experience. This is what we're talking about. | Illyanna Maisonet was the United States' first Puerto Rican food columnist for a major newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, and sold out pop-up dinners across the San

Our Built Environment

Our Built Environment

International architect, Emanuel Admassu, discusses the foundations of both architecture and urban design with Eva Glasberg. From Columbia News. | From Columbia University / Professor Emanuel Admassu’s art, design, and teaching embrace theory, spatial justice, and contemporary African art. His work explores the international constellation of Afrodiasporic spaces. Most recently, he

Better. Recognize.

Better. Recognize.

We join the Black Alumni Council at Georgetown in celebrating the work and achievements of author and scholar, Marcia Chatelain. From Professor Marcia Chatelain / "I am currently a Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Previously, I was a Reach for Excellence

Speak On It

Scholars gather for the 2023 Modern Language Association convention in San Francisco. | Founded in 1883, the Modern Language Association of America has worked for more than a century to strengthen the study and teaching of languages and literatures

Africa in 10 Years?

Africa in 10 Years?

The team at Renew Capital has some thoughts about this. | Renew Capital - The 2022 Report Renew Capital - The 2022 Report.pdf 3 MB download-circle

African Literature in 2022

African Literature in 2022

Brittle Paper offers nine trends they observed across African lit this year. | By Ainehi Edoro via Brittle Paper / "African writers are producing excellent writing, and publishers, both on the continent and the diaspora, are making space for their work. This year, we expanded our Notable African Books of the

Stay Wake

Working in conjunction with the Ida B. Wells Education Project, scholar and activist Rebecca Hall, author of Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, has developed discussion guides and learning lessons to help readers get more out of the book. | "Using in-depth archival research and the measured use

Black in Alaska

Black in Alaska

A new book by Ian Hartman and David Reamer uncovers an undertold history. | From author Ian Hartman, via Alaska Public Radio / "You’re not really talking about Alaska really coming under U.S. control until the 1860s and 70s. But there is an Alaskan Black presence that predates even

YEAR OF UJAMAA - Episode #6

YEAR OF UJAMAA - Episode #6

Anton and BC visit My Place Cafe in Pasadena, CA, and reflect on the first year of Year of Ujamaa. 110 all the way... | *Note: In this episode, BC inadvertantly identified Blk&Bold Coffee as Blk&Gold Coffee. Clearly a moment of OYOU-VAC. Another cup, please... :)

1619 Project: The Series

1619 Project: The Series

From Nikole Hannah-Jones, premiering January 26th on Hulu. | The National Read AlongThe 1619 project prepares to help America read together, think together, and build together in 2023. | From 1619 / “The 1619 Project is The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning reframing of American history that placed slavery and its continuing