Africa

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March 7, 2012
SLIDESHOW - Solange Knowles recently took a trip with her young son to Rwanda and posted some stunning, candid photographs…
February 27, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - When rap singer 50 Cent announced that part of the proceeds from his new energy drink would…
February 21, 2012
Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe recently celebrated his 88th birthday by stating that he had 'beaten Christ'...
February 15, 2012
ROCK CENTER - The Martin family knows something about themselves that few if any families will ever learn about their…
February 10, 2012
Ne-Yo's girlfriend, Monyetta Shaw, will be 'adopting' 48 African children. This does not mean that she will be gaining physical…
February 10, 2012
It has only been a month since the United Nations announced that the famine was over in Somalia...
February 7, 2012
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - The Ugandan parliamentarian who first introduced an anti-gay bill that carried the death penalty for some…
January 30, 2012
theGRIO's 100 - Alie Kabba is the executive director of the United African Organization, a Chicago-based group comprised of multiple…
January 27, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - First there was Hollywood, then came Bollywood and today we have Nollywood the second largest film industry…
January 23, 2012
BELA BELA, South Africa (AP) - In the two decades since apartheid crumbled, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission has brought…
January 23, 2012
OPINION - The posse prepares for their trip to Africa by working out, reading travel books, and of course gossiping...
January 20, 2012
Tech expert Seth Owusu is giving back to his native country of Ghana an extraordinary way...
January 20, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - In 2008, 97 percent of all abortions performed in Africa and 95 percent in Latin America were…
January 19, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - For African-American parents choosing a name for their child is more complex because of the legacy of…
January 17, 2012
OPINION - Get ready Africa, 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta' are on their way!....
January 11, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is sending five American military officers to South Sudan amid recent outbreaks of violence…
January 5, 2012
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Against all odds, the party of Nelson Mandela has transformed a nation where just 20 years ago…
January 4, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A fascinating exhibition in Paris explores the history of so-called "human zoos", predominately from Africa, which were…
January 3, 2012
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - World music icon Youssou Ndour says he plans to run in Senegal's presidential election next month,…
December 27, 2011
OPINION - I am expressing my dissatisfaction with his repugnant and mocking analysis of a holiday that is celebrated and…