SAiDTalks: Professor and Hip-Hop Scholar Seth Markle Talks Tanzania’s Hip-Hop Scene and Organizing One of the World’s Top International Hip-Hop Festivals
Greetings, SAiDTribe! We hope you enjoyed our first installment of SAiDTalks with acclaimed Africanfuturist Nnedi Okorafor. This Black History Month, we are excited to share this next SAiDTalks feature, which we will explore the history, present, and future of one …
SAiDTalks: Acclaimed Africanfuturist Writer Nnedi Okorafor Talks LaGuardia, Her Views on Writer’s Block, and “Choosing Your Tribe”
We are pleased to begin 2019 with the official launch of SAiDTalks! Published on the second Thursday of every month by SAiD’s Lara Abiona, SAiDTalks is a monthly interview series where we chat with today’s most prolific African diaspora leaders who are starting …
AGING GRATEFULLY
I would like to thank you for your positive response to the newsletter announcement and your continued support of our transition from Applause Africa to SAiD (Society for Africans in Diaspora– Formerly “Applause Africa”.) I spent the past few months reflecting on …
Becoming Water: Qualities for Impact in the Age of Wakanda
Every year on the heels of World Water Day, Africa’s leading change agents, influencers, entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and professionals gather to highlight FACE Africa’s vision to build water wells in Liberia and to raise money to support their effort. One year after …
The 7th Annual African Diaspora Awards
Applause Africa’s African Diaspora Awards joins the global community in foster awareness of unity and promoting harmonious relations among disapora communities in United State and Africa. Finding ways of coordinating our efforts to a sense of being part of something greater than …
Traveling Africa: The Challenges and Opportunities
Like most Nigerians, growing up in Lagos meant I had very little knowledge of, or exposure to, the rest of the country, not to speak of the rest of the continent. Luckily, I had some family in the north of the country …