Welcome To Black Herald
Welcome to Black Herald Online Magazine - we are glad you are here, and hope you come back often. This is a place where we showcase the great things happening in Africa.
There is no gainsaying that Africa and the African people are portrayed unfairly by the media. Consequently, it is incumbent on us Africans to create a platform to broadcast our achievements. If we don't blow our trumpet, nobody would.
Though not where we are suppose to be in terms of economic development, social justice, freedom and polity, we continue to achieve milestones in commerce, technology, innovation, education, health, governance and human resources development.
We at Black Herald take pride in Africa and our goal is to celebrate our people, businesses, cultures, religions, democracies and economies. So lets glorify Africa together - our Africa - and change the negative global perception of motherland!
Recent Posts
A moth is not a butterfly.
It is a sure path to mental stress to ask a recent returnee from the homeland how Nigeria is doing. The more people you ask, the more confused you will be. No two people seem to agree on the “state of the nation”. While you may find a common theme that runs from the downright […]
Africa’s Economic Growth: Past Lessons and Future Prospects.
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 2008 - The period from 1960 to 2000 was one of remarkable growth and transformation in the world economy. Why did most of Sub-Saharan Africa fail to develop over most of this period? Why did a few small economies succeed spectacularly? Will the acceleration of growth since the mid-1990s be sustained? […]
The Leukemia Ball 2008
WASHINGTON DC - MARCH 29, 2008 - The creme-de-la-creme of DC gathered at the Washington Convention Center for a good course - to raise money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in an event tagged the Leukemia Ball 2008. More than $3.3 million was raised at the event.
For the past 21 years, the Leukemia Ball […]
Evening with Chinua Achebe - 50th Anniversary Publication of Things Fall Apart
WASHINGTON DC - MARCH 24, 2008 - PEN/Faulkner and The Washington Post Book World presented “An Evening with Chinua Achebe” today to commemorate the 50th anniversary publication of Things Fall Apart. During the event Chinua Achebe read excerpts from his book. The event was attended by literary scholars, students and the general public.
CHINUA ACHEBE was […]
NiPRO Announces the First Top 40 Finalists
Press Release
Lagos, Nigeria, January 7, 2008: Nigerian Professionals Organization “NiPRO”, the Organizers of the Global Top 40 Under 40 Nigerian Female Professionals, on January 7th announced the First 20 Finalist on the Top 40 List. The event scheduled for next month in Lagos has attracted an A-List of High Profile Nigerian Women.
Sponsored by Esso/Exxonmobil Nigeria, […]
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2008 African Banker Awards Winners & Pictures
The 2nd Annual African Banker Awards took place yesterday at the Willard International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC, USA. Attended by distinguished guests including representatives from all of the top African banks, international banks working with Africa, financial institutions, intergovernmental organization and development agencies involved in the continent, ministers of finance and governors […]
Annual African Banker Awards - 10th October 2008.
IC Publications, publisher of African Banker magazine, is delighted to announce the 2nd African Banker Awards which will take place on 10th October 2008 at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington DC, during the World Bank/IMF annual meetings. The African Banker Awards are designed to recognize the reforms, rapid modernization, consolidation, integration and expansion of […]
ICAN U.S.A District Society Inauguration.
LAUREL, MARYLAND - September 21, 2008 - The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) U.S.A District Society was formally inaugurated yesterday by Chief Richard Uchechukwu Uche, Ph.D., FCA – the president of ICAN.
Nigerian accountants from all over the world attended the banquet, which doubled as the 1st formal conferment of Fellowship & Associate Status […]
Africa Investment Horizons - New film shows enormous investment opportunities where least expected.
NEW YORK, April 29 — A new documentary, “AFRICA INVESTMENT HORIZONS”, which premiered at the New York Stock Exchange, shows the tremendous gains being made in Africa’s vibrant emerging markets and proves one surprising fact – that the highest rate of return on direct investment is found on the continent most people think of as […]
Announcement: World Bank Launches Diaspora Firm Registration Drive
Greetings from the African Diaspora Mobilization Team!
We are writing to seek your assistance in launching an initiative aimed at registering Firms owned by members of the African Diaspora on a World Bank database called eConsultant, so that these Firms become eligible for consulting opportunities within ongoing Bank projects in Africa.
This is further to the Diaspora […]
African Entrepreneurs Series - Bob Agbede
Robert O. Agbede is the President and CEO of Chester Engineers, a leading national water and waste water engineering and scientific research firm. Mr. Agbede, after 15 years as the founder, President and CEO of Advanced Technology Systems, Inc. (ATS Group), became the leader of the largest African-American owned municipal engineering services firm in the […]
Aliko Dangote (Nigerian) is the Richest Black Man in the World.
Alhaji Aliko Dangote emerged the 334th richest man in the world based on the recently released 2008 Forbes Magazine list of richest men in the world, making him the richest black person. A Nigerian, he hit the jackpot when his sugar-production company listed on the Nigerian stock exchange last year.
Meanwhile, proposed initial public offerings of his […]
Top 25 Under 25 (Africans) - Deborah Umunnabuike, 23 and Jessica Ummnnabuike, 21
“I’m looking to learn how to create a more socially responsible business,” says Deborah Umunnabuike, a political science major at the University of Chicago and co-founder of Avant Gaudy, an online vintage clothing shop she started with her sister, Jessica, an undergraduate at Hofstra University, in the summer of 2005. The daughters of Nigerian immigrants […]
Top 25 Under 25 (Africans) - Ubong Attah, 23
Ubong Attah describes herself as a serial entrepreneur. She ran a tutoring business in high school, taught herself Web design in college, then started a Web design firm her senior year called Studio10Fourteen, which she says is profitable and continues to operate. Ubong recently sold another business, an online jewelry shop, for around $55,000. She […]
Akon
After winning music fans over with his 2003 multi-platinum debut Trouble, Senegalese singer Akon returns with more stories from his personal journey via his sophmore CD Konvicted. If Trouble was Akon’s ode to redemption (before his music career took off he served time for car theft), Konvicted picks up at rebirth. His mission now is […]
