Axum Mayor Ato Hagos Gebrewahid and Denver Mayor Hickenlooper were on hand to break ground on more than $620,000 in improvements to Denver’s City of Axum Park, funded through the Better Denver Bond Program, Capital Improvement Funding and a Park Hill Thriving Communities Grant. The renovations include a new playground, picnic shelter, new basketball court, [...]
The following article was written for A Little Something – The Denver Refugee Women’s Craft Initiative. Their mission is to help refugee women achieve self-sufficiency through the beauty of handmade crafts. Read more about the program on their blog and connect with them on Facebook. Words and photos by Sharon McCreary. Reprinted with permission. One [...]
A Few Steps to Assure Refugees’ Safety Dr. Pius Kamau Originally aired on KUNC March 29, 2010 I recently took care of a patient with severe burns that she sustained while cooking. What distinguished her from the many burn patients I have managed over the years is where she came from. She was an African [...]
MetroAfrican has a copy of The Prester John Sessions on CD to give away to one lucky reader. To enter the contest simply leave a comment anywhere on metroafrican.com before April 1, 2010. We will pick one random winner from all the comments left during that time. Be sure to provide a way for us [...]
Some Journalists’ Scientific IgnoranceDr. Pius KamauOriginally aired on KUNC March 1, 2010 Link to the Show / Show Notes For some time now I have been thinking of how many conservative columnists’ have misinterpreted the information that’s out there on climate change. Scientific data has had little influence, and the ever changing picture on the [...]
The first edition of the Colorado African Yellow Pages & Guide has been around for several weeks now, so if you haven’t gotten your copy yet, stop by your local African market today to pick one up. Inside you will find many of the same listings you see here at metroAfrican, including African restaurants and [...]
Dr. Pius Kamau is a thoracic surgeon in Denver. A native of Kenya, Dr. Kamau came to the US in 1971. He read his essay “A Duty to Heal” for NPR’s This I Believe series back in 2006. This past week the essay was replayed on the program. If you have not yet heard it, [...]
AfricAid Hosts First Annual Unwrap-A-Story Twitterbration to Support Girls’ Education Denver, Colo. November 24, 2009– AfricAid announces the Unwrap-A-Story “twitterbration” to support girls’ education in Africa. Running from December 8th to 11th, the three-day online celebration will invite the public to use online tools like Twitter and Facebook to share and celebrate the people who [...]
The Denver-Based literacy organization Ethiopia Reads recently announced the publication of a new children’s book written in English and Amharic. Trouble is a charming Ethiopian tale from award winning children’s author Jane Kurtz, who co-founded Ethiopia Reads with Yohannes Gebregeorgis. Artist Durga Bernhard donated her talents to illustrate the book. Proceeds from sales of Trouble, [...]
Entrepreneurial Proposals Collectively Represent More Than $22 Million In Diaspora Investment in African Communities WASHINGTON DC & DENVER, October 26, 2009 — Sixty finalists for the African Diaspora Marketplace (ADM), with proposals representing more than $22 million of diaspora business investment to spur job creation in their native countries, were announced today by Western Union [...]
