admin | November 30, 2021
An urgent call to end forced marriage -- across and within borders I recently published a book calledThe Shaytan Bride: A Bangladeshi Canadian Memoir of Desire and Faith, now available worldwide.
admin | November 30, 2021
As you scour the Internet for deals on Cyber Monday and generally partake in the holiday shopping rush, its worth remembering that local small businesses could use your support and some may even have items in stock that you cant find online or trust will arrive on time.
admin | October 26, 2021
The Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies has entered its fourth year with a new chair at the helm, Kellie Jones, the Hans Hofman Professor of Modern Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology and a MacArthur fellow.
admin | October 26, 2021
Music Sociology and the African Diaspora Tues., Oct.
admin | October 26, 2021
Dr. Carole Boyce Davies lengthy title at Cornell University Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters in the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of Africana studies and literatures in English denotes an impressive career in academia but doesnt begin to describe the international recognition she has received and the breadth of her knowledge about the African Diaspora.
admin | October 26, 2021
Angella Whitter makes an award presentation to a deserving student.
admin | October 26, 2021
Irelands Minister for the Diaspora TD Colm Brophy was at the Consulate General of Ireland in New York City on October 20 to meet with representatives of the groups who are recipients of grants from the Emigrant Support Programme (ESP). The funding was announced earlier in the day on Wednesday - more than $1.1 million will be dispersed to some two dozen groups in the New York area that span in interest from the arts, to mental health, to, of course, immigration and pastoral services. It goes without saying that the past year or so was a difficult one.
admin | October 26, 2021
When Mapate Diop was growing up in New York City, his mother would regularly travel to her home country of Nigeria, bringing back to the States with her rolls of ankara, a popular fabric used in West African fashion. Diops mother would then find a local tailor to have custom shirts made from the brightly colored and patterned cotton cloth, which Diop would wear with pride.
admin | October 26, 2021
First things first, writing about politics, its abracadabra, its luggage and attendant baggage, is not what I do (as one left that forte years ago.) And the primary reason for not writing about Nigerian, African or global politics is that as any noteworthy writer and strategic thinker who is worth his or her salt would attest to, you see and can connect the dots long before the citizenry understand what politicians are cooking, serving and dishing out to them. Basically put, writing about politics is not usually intellectually engaging because it is usually dj vu (if you know or have read the history of the particular context and subject matter). But there are exceptions to the rule where a writer sees patterns others might not have seen and would have to highlight it.
admin | October 26, 2021
Lebanons Parliament voted during the parliamentary session on Tuesday against adding 6 additional MPs reserved for the diaspora only, The Lebanese diaspora will instead vote for all 128 MPs in their local district during the upcoming general elections, as they did in the last election cycle. According to Article 22 of the 2017 Electoral Law, Six seats for non-residents shall be added to the number of members of the Chamber of Deputies to become 134 members in the electoral cycle that will follow the first electoral cycle to take place in accordance with this law. Article 22 drew criticism from activists, arguing that it limits the voting power of Lebanese living abroad and is unfair because it doesnt take into consideration how many Lebanese are currently living outside
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