TRUE CULTURE UNIVERSITY

Virginia Commonwealth University In this day and age where countries in Africa are growing rapidly, it is not the time to look down upon...

VOLDA APPIA-KUSI, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY Growing up in America as the first-generation daughter of Ghanaian immigrants, I knew I was...

Pan- Africanism in the late 19th century was a movement focused on a wide range of political views, ideologies, cultural facts and the...

The 1855 Post-Berlin Conference was a catalyst to a majority of the social, political, and economic issues faced by countries in Africa...

DAVID CURTISS, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY “Webale nyo. Webale nyo.” That means “thank you very much” in Lugandan. It was all I could think of to...

Syracuse University Growing up in Southern and Southwestern Nigeria, my experience for most of my childhood was shaped not by equality,...

Syracuse University The division between African Americans and Africans within the larger black community has always been an anomaly to...

American University A few months ago, we watched horrified as African migrants were sold as slaves in their own continent. I don’t know...

Lehigh University I am black. Since my undergraduate collegiate career at Lehigh University, the idea of “blackness” was never a debate...

Harvard University Since birth, all odds were against me. My mother was fifteen years old when she went into labor, and I was detached...

San Francisco State University Fresh out of your undergraduate years of college and you realize you still are not experienced enough to...

Harvard University “This is why I say that hip-hop has done more damage to young African Americans than racism in recent years” – Geraldo...

Agnes Scott College She debated turning around. Upon her arrival, the excitement she possessed for the past few months all of sudden...

Harvard University In today’s society, many Africans and African Americans have negative perceptions of each other that hinder black...

MAYA PETE, STANFORD UNIVERSITY “I believe in a pure black race just as how all self-respecting whites believe in a pure white race, as...

Uniban Universidade Bandeirantes Brazil is the country with the largest black population outside the African Continent. However, this...

North Carolina Central State University Born a first-generation American in New York to Garifuna parents from Honduras, I grew up...

Indiana University of Pennsylvania Pan-Africanism, the brain child of Marcus Garvey, is the philosophy that the only way black people...

Indiana University of Pennsylvania Do you carry spears? Do you all live in huts? Everyone in Africa is rich, right? Is everyone in Africa...

Agness Scott College I have had the overwhelming privilege of living in different countries on different continents. Born to Ghanaian...