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Five-month pregnant Alysia Montano completes 800m race

Alysia Montano, middle distance runner has mesmerised sports fans after she completed the USA Track and Field Championships on Thursday while five months pregnant. The 31-year-old athlete who is pregnant with her second child has been making headlines since finishing about 19 seconds behind the winner recording a time of 2 minutes, 21.40 seconds. Call her super-woman or... Read More

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Metropolitan Police begin search for missing 13-year-old, Nigerian-British boy, Agbolade Amusa

The Metropolitan Police London UK has issued out a notice to find 13-year-old Nigerian-British boy Agbolade Amusa, who went missing from Thamesmead, South London. The Greenwich police team have been appealing for the public’s help to him after he was reported last seen at about 12:30 on Wednesday, 21 June at Aldi, in Thamesmead, SE28. In... Read More

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“Giving up is not an option” | Nigerian-British PR executive, Ronke Lawal advises young entrepreneurs

Ronke Lawal is the Founder of UK based Ariatu PR, a PR company that works with a variety of entrepreneurs from the African and Caribbean Diaspora to gain media coverage for their businesses across the luxury FMCG sectors. Ronke Lawal started her business in 2004, then rebranded it to Ariatu PR at the end of 2014... Read More

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Dentaa Amoateng is invested in celebrating Ghanaian-based businesses in the UK

Award-winning Ghanaian-British entrepreneur, actress, TV presenter, singer, producer, Dentaa Amoateng is the founder of the annual Ghana UK Based Awards (GUBA) which took place this year on Saturday, June 3, 2017. The awards was established by Amoateng to celebrate, acknowledge, and support Ghanaian-based businesses and individuals in the UK. Dentaa Amoateng was awarded an MBE in Queen Elizabeth II’s 2016 Birthday Honours... Read More

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Meet Irene Agbontaen, creator of London-based fashion label, Taller Than Your Average

Irene Agbontaen is a London-based fashion stylist who created Taller Than Your Average (TTYA) London: an apparel brand offering accessible, modern, functional pieces that are specifically cut for women who are 5’9” or taller. Launched in Selfridges in 2013, TTYA has gone on to have a home in Barneys, New York and was the first pioneering... Read More

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I used to sell ice cream – British-Ghanaian star actress, Freema Agyeman

38-year-old Ghanaian-British actress Freema Agyeman who played the Time Lord’s companion Martha Jones on Dr. Who series from 2007 to 2010 is making her West End theatre debut with a role as a soap opera actress Paul Rider in the stage play Apologia. Born to an Iranian mother and Ghanaian father, Agyeman recently spoke about her... Read More

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Amma Asante honoured by Queen Elizabeth II, appointed Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Award-winning British director, screenwriter, actress Ghanaian-British, Amma Asante, 47, has been honoured by Queen Elizabeth II and appointed Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) this year for her general contribution to film. The “A United Kingdom” director (which stars David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike) began her screen career as a child actress on the British school drama... Read More

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Temi Mwale makes the Forbes 30 Under 30 list following London’s Young Person of the Year Award

Earlier this year, Temi Mwale made the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for her community project: 4Front which works with UK youths helping them stay away from gangs. Mwale, 21, who grew up in Grahame Park Estate, Colindale started the Project in memory of murdered friend, Marvin Henry and now devotes her time to stop youth violence.... Read More

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Ghanaian-British Olympic bronze medalist Joshua Buatsi set to make professional boxing debut

Ghanaian-British Olympic bronze medalist Joshua Buatsi will make his professional boxing debut this July. The 24-year-old just signed for Matchroom Boxing in a paid fight that will take place next month in a packed hall at The O2. The Ghanaian-born British boxer is in the light heavyweight division and is said to be managed by world heavyweight champion... Read More

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Neequaye Dreph Dsane paints London in #BlackGirlMagic as part of his ‘You Are Enough’ series

As part of his ‘You Are Enough’ series, London-based Ghanaian artist Neequaye Dreph Dsane has painted London walls with huge images of women of African and Caribbean origin. The 43-year-old street artist is hoping to shine the light and empower “amazing women who are not given the visibility they deserve.” There will be 10 colourful hand-crafted murals... Read More

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Tinie Tempah urges students to stay in school

by Rachel Ogbu// Nigerian-British rapper and entrepreneur Tinie Tempah has been inspiring students at his former school- St Francis Xavier (SFX) 6th form College in Balham. This month, he told students how the college was a “stepping stone” for him in his career and encouraged them to go to university just as he wished he had gone. “It’s... Read More

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Record attendance at the 25th Africa Oyé Festival in Liverpool

There was an attendance record last weekend at the 25th Africa Oyé Festival which attracted over 80,000 people to Sefton Park in Liverpool, UK. The ever-diverse Oyé crowd flocked from across the country and beyond to witness performances from some of the finest returning artists the festival has welcomed over its 25-year history as well as... Read More

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Ghanaian-British celebrity fitness expert Efua Baker is ‘THE’ Body Producer

Efua Baker is a Ghanaian-British celebrity fitness expert and personal trainer. She became known to us in the health and fitness scene in 2004 when she was on the BBC One programme Fat Nation – the Big Challenge but Baker has been working long before then – in the music industry. Known as just Efua, the 50-year-old was a music star back... Read More

Africans in diaspora, africans in the UK, Efua Baker, fitness expert, Ghanaian- British, personal trainer, uk

Double bass player, Chi-chi Nwanoku appointed OBE in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours

Nigerian- British double bass player Chi-chi Nwanoku just been appointed OBE in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours, this adds to her other royal honour as MBE for services to Music in the 2001. Born Chinyere (Chi-chi) Adah Nwanoku, this talented orchestra genius who gained a reputation as one of the finest exponents of her instrument has been... Read More

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Reni Eddo-Lodge shares her racism struggle in new book, “Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race”

Reni Eddo-Lodge, Nigerian-British journalist focused on feminism and exposing structural racism speaks on her new book; Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race. The 27-year-old award-winning journalist explores Britain’s history of discrimination through her debut book which first started as a blog in 2014. Reni once wrote, “I just can’t engage with the bewilderment... Read More

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Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire

In 2016, Nigerian-British Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp was one of almost 300 British actors, musicians, writers and artists that signed a letter calling for the UK to stay in the EU but that appeal fell on deaf ears as Britain eventually decided it wanted out of the European Union. This year, Tharp is making news as one... Read More

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UK-based James Barnor is Ghana’s father of photography

by Rachel Ogbu// As part of the festivities marking Ghana at 60, ‘the James Barnor Homecoming Exhibition’ has been showing since the 6th March 2017 at the Mövenpick Emporium in Ghana. James Barnor, 88, pioneering Ghanaian photographer based in London, UK, since the 1990s displays his works that represent the life of Ghana’s first President, Dr Kwame... Read More

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Sade Adu appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Sade Adu, born Helen Folasade Adu was on June 10, appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire during the Queen’s 91st Birthday Honours for her services to music. The CBE established on June 4, 1917, by King George V acknowledges British order of chivalry and rewards contributions to the arts and sciences, work... Read More

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John Akomfrah, OBE, speaks on Trump, Brexit migration debates

by Rachel Ogbu// In January Ghanaian-British video artist John Akomfrah was named the winner of 2017 Artes Mundi, the UK’s biggest prize for international contemporary art. The artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator used his new status to speak openly about the “bleak culture of fear and intolerance” in Britain. “We are currently experiencing the... Read More

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Say hello to EastEnders actress Bunmi Mojekwu

by Rachel Ogbu// EastEnders is one of the longest-running British soap operas showing on BBC One since 1985. Nigerian-British actress Bunmi Mojekwu joined the cast in 2010 playing the role of Mercy Olubunmi for two years. Her character, Mercy was one of four main characters including Zsa Zsa Carter, Leon Small and Fatboy in the spin-off EastEnders: E20.... Read More

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British media tags Edward Enninful, the most powerful man in fashion

by Rachel Ogbu// In April, Edward Enninful was announced as the Editor-in-Chief of British Vogue. He has become the first male editor of the magazine and is scheduled to resume work officially in August. Edward Enninful was born in Ghana but started working in fashion when he was 16 and is now living in the... Read More

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Anthony Joshua could start earning more than Floyd Mayweather

by Rachel Ogbu// Nigerian-born British boxer, Anthony Joshua seems to be the most humble heavyweight champion today. Since knocking out Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley in April, the IBF, WBA and IBO heavyweight titles holder has been taking things easy since his historic match but he did take out time to respond to the ‘Mayweather challenge.’ Retired boxing champ Floyd... Read More

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Zimbabwean-British playwright, Zodwa Nyoni to release new play July 1

by Rachel Ogbu// Zimbabwean-British playwright Zodwa Nyoni has been hailed by the BBC for making her voice heard with her new play Ode To Leeds showing at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds until 1 July. Ode To Leeds follows the story of five young poets from Leeds selected to compete at the world’s most prestigious international poetry slam competition... Read More

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24-year-old artist, Khadija Saye’s friends desperately finding her following Grenfell Tower fire

by Rachel Ogbu// Amongst the hundreds missing or even feared dead in the tragically burnt Grenfell Tower West London is 24-year-old Khadija Saye, a photographer who recently exhibited her work at the Venice Biennale. She is believed to have been living in a flat with her mother, Mary Mendy, 50, at the time of the... Read More

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Nigerian-British Hannah Agboola sparks race argument on Big Brother UK

by Rachel Ogbu// There is trouble in the Big Brother UK House – but when is there not? This time Nigerian-British housemate Hannah Agboola found herself sparking a race argument after a dispute over waiting for others before eating dinner in the house escalated on Wednesday night. It was dinner time in the Big Brother House and... Read More

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Africa Fashion Week takes over London fashion scene this August 2017

by Rachel Ogbu// African-inspired designs are dominating the international fashion scene like never before and now everything is set for Africa Fashion Week London this August 2017. Now the largest annual African fashion event in Europe, Africa Fashion Week London, is back for its 7th year. Africa Fashion Week London will take place at the prestigious Freemasons’ Hall... Read More

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Nigerian-British Conservative MP Kemi Badenoch speaks about the threats she receives

by Rachel Ogbu// Nigerian-British Kemi Badenoch has been speaking openly about the threats she receives as a public servant. The newly elected Conservative Member of Parliament representing Saffron Walden had won 24,991 majority defeating her opponent Sir Alan Haselhurst. This came before Labour MP Diane Abbott on Wednesday said black women in politics suffer a higher level... Read More

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Facts and figures from the Grenfell tower, London fire

by Rachel Ogbu// Early Wednesday, at about 1am, firefighters were called to a 27-storey building engulfed in flames at Grenfell Tower in White City London. Now the fatalities are rising with many people still unaccounted for as eyewitnesses tell horrid stories of residents, who were seen throwing themselves and their children out of windows desperate to get away... Read More

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Photos from the annual Fashion Africa Conference in London

by Rachel Ogbu// The annual Fashion Africa Conference took place last month at the Chelsea Old Town Hall, King’s Rd, Chelsea, London. This year’s conference highlighted the scope of opportunities across the continent bringing together industry leaders from across Africa and the world. It has become clear that power and value of opening up African Fashion... Read More

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Dele Aro, founder of Amacoast Cinema UK speaks on the need to tell African stories across the world

by Rachel Ogbu// Nigerian-British Dele Aro is the founder of Amacoast Cinema, an experimental cinema company focused on Black film in the United Kingdom. The brand was born out of the desire to see more black stories told on both the big and small screen. The company now creates exclusive and celebratory cinema experiences around black film... Read More

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