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Fariso Jordan’s Georgia ends successful run Off-Broadway

Fariso Jordan and leading man Matthew Acevedo in Georgia the play

With Rolling Stone’s retraction of the UVA rape story after investigation by Columbia University, notwithstanding, actress and playwright Fariso Jordan succeeds in keeping it strictly real in her rescripted, full production play Georgia. Fariso’s play Georgia premiered as a one-woman play in 2013 and two years later it has metamorphose into a re-written full cast production.

Le Ekhaya and House of Mucha, the two Zimbabweans featuring at the African Fashion Week London

Le Ekhaya

Two Zimbabweans will this weekend take part in the African Fashion Week London (AFWL), an event created by Ronke Ademiluyi and is Europe's largest catwalk event of African and African-inspired design. The main purpose of the event is to increase the visibility and awareness of designers by providing them with an affordable global showcasing platform.

CSLUSA joins growing calls for ‘Bus gate’ investigation, prosecution

Some of the 100 buses bought by the Government of Sierra Leone from China

The controversy surrounding the purchase of 100 Chinese for $12 million dollars continues to create a stir. A growing chorus demanding investigation and subsequent prosecution against officials over allegations of misappropriating public funds, corruption and bribery in the recent acquisition of 100 buses from China are beginning to mount.

Jamaican Jerk Festival Hits New York

Sirak Getachew cofounder & creative director of Africology Media Inc., flanked by an unidentified friend from Djibouti -right and Meron BK to Addis - left

Not even the scorching 96 degrees heat wave could deter 16,000 patrons from attending New York’s largest Caribbean food festival. The festival upgraded its status turning out closest to the outcome its promoters had hoped for attracting 4,000 more patrons comparatively to last year’s 12,000 who thronged into Roy Wilkins Park in Queens past Sunday to enjoy the festival’s fifth edition, according to Eddy Edwards, CEO of Jamaican Jerk Festival USA Inc.