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 In a strange turn of events, Wayna is arrested in Houston after a baton used in her show (for a song about police brutality) is found in her bag. Â
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Fashion and Life Style
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Liberian Teenager Makes Jewelry from Bullets
Lovetta Conto is a 17 year old jewelry designer originally from Liberia. Conto makes jewelry from casings of bullets fired during Liberia’s civil war. Conto makes jewelry that is worn by the likes of Angelina Jolie and Hallie Berry. She grew up in a Ghanaian refugee camp. At the age of 18 months she was separated from her mother. Conto and her father fled the country to escape its civil war.
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Aminat Ayinde Falls Short on America’s Next Top Model
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Maatano Fashion
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African Girls Aminat and Sandra Wanna Be on Top
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Anglo-Nigerian Artist Yinka Shonibare Makes History
Business
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South Africa education gets e-learning digital makeover
In Africa’s schools, old-fashioned, dusty textbooks are gradually being replaced by tablets, ...
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FaceBook’s $19 Billion purchase of WhatsApp
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Future of broadcasting on display at NAB 2011
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Exit of Safaricom CEO Michael Joseph
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The African Leadership Academy-Training the next generation of leaders and entrepreneurs?
World
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Baby Arjay Needs Your Help
Arjay Wiles needs your prayers and donations for surgery in China that will change his life.
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Senegal Fish Crisis
Technology
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FaceBook’s $19 Billion purchase of WhatsApp
WhatsApp is a small company with at most 50 employees but since ...
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Future of broadcasting on display at NAB 2011
Health
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Africans and Breast Cancer Awareness
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast Cancer affects hundreds of thousands of women in the U.S. every year. In 2006, 191,410 women were diagnosed with breast cancer and 40,820 of them died from this disease. Aside from non-melanoma skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women. Breast cancer is the number one cause of cancer death in Hispanic women. It is the second most common cause of cancer death in white, black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native women.
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Sports
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Hasheem Thabeet Drafted by Grizzlies
Hasheem Thabeet makes history as the first Tanzanian-born player drafted to the NBA.
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President Obama Gets in on March Madness Action