Muleyma - Love for Fashion 2009 By Cote Minou.

“The Future Does Not Belong To Those Who Are Content With Today……Timid and Fearful in the Face of Bold Projects & New Ideas.” -  Robert F. Kennedy.
CAPITOL HEIGHTS, MARYLAND - JUNE 27, 2009 - This summer designers Maryanne & Stephanie took their clothing line to a bigger and bolder height.  Côté Minou celebrated its third [...]

DC Monument (National Park Short Video Clip)

“Best Things In Life Are Free” - Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson in a Soundtrack for the Motion Picture Mo’ Money.
WASHINGTON DC - JUNE 24, 2009 - In case you have never been to the DC  National Park, our photojournalist TFLASH went to the monument last weekend and put together this short video clip  for [...]

Oxford-Style Debate: Regulation Vs Deregulation

WASHINGTON DC - MARCH 31, 2009 : The current financial crisis has led to many public outcries for more regulation of the financial services sector.  As a contribution to the discourse, Black Herald commissioned a distinguished panel to argue for or against regulation in an Oxford-Style debate.  Here are their responses:
SAINT JAMES
Money is the [...]

Africa’s Best & Worst Persons of the Week - March 29, 2009

Best African of the Week - Tidjane Thiam: From Ivory Coast to Prudential:
Instead of screaming with a hyperbole, we can begin with a simple statement: last week, it was announced that Tidjane Thiam, a black man of Ivorian descent, will take over as head of UK insurance giant Prudential, which is in the FTSE 100.  [...]

Africa’s Best & Worst Person’s of the Week - March 08, 2009

Africa’s Worst Person of the Week: el-Bashir of Sudan:
He stands accused before the international community of five serious crimes against humanity: murder, forcible transfer, torture, rape, and extermination of whole communities.  And that is because this week the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Netherlands, decided to leave out the most heinous of the charges [...]

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Mohammed Al Amoudi is the richest black man in the world in 2009.

WASHINGTON DC, MARCH 2009 - If the recently released Forbes Magazine list of richest people in 2009 is anything to go by, then Mohammed Al Amoudi (Ethiopian & Saudi Arabian) -  is the richest black man in the world with a networth of $9B - though sometimes considered an Arab, as far as race is [...]

Financial Accounting Standard 91 (FAS 91) for Dummies

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field” Niels Bohr.

FEBRUARY 2009 - WASHINGTON DC, USA - In layman’s terms, Financial Accounting Standard 91 (or FAS 91) simply requires that (i) Initial direct costs be debited to the gross investment of a loan/security; (ii) [...]

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 [...]


Financial Accounting Standard 91 (FAS 91) for Dummies

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field” Niels Bohr.

FEBRUARY 2009 - WASHINGTON DC, USA - In layman’s terms, Financial Accounting Standard 91 (or FAS 91) simply requires that (i) Initial direct costs be debited to the gross investment of a loan/security; (ii) [...]

Inaugurating Hope and Pausing for Nightmares

As a human being, it is hard not to feel excited about the events of this week.  As a black person, it is impossible not to feel giddy and light-headed with a thousand iconic images streaming out of Washington, DC.  Beginning with an improbable journey on the steps of the Old Capitol in Springfield, Illinois [...]

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.

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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 [...]

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 [...]