On June 30th, 2009, 11 women were certified as Community Health Workers by Colorado African Organization. These women attended an 8-week intensive training course at CAO on preventive health– cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and HIV/AIDS. Armed with their certificates, these women will be presenting health education sessions in their home communities once a month, supported [...]

In the coming months, an Aurora CO, based non-profit organization will distribute 100,000 copies of the Cameroon Constitution to Cameroonians within the United States and in Cameroon.
Founded by George Bamu, Africa Agenda seeks to ‘garner positive press for Africa using powerful concepts of the media in the society’. In fulfilling its mission, Africa Agenda organizes [...]

Since metroafrican.com launched only about three months ago, a retrospective of the year may seem a bit much, but here’s a look back at the most popular stories of the last quarter of 2008.

metroAfrican.com launched in September with an appearance on African Roots radio show on KGNU with host Moutiou Yessoufou.
Yohannes Gebregeorgis of Ethiopia Reads [...]

If you have not yet been to the Palava, here are two very good reasons to go. They are throwing a party on Christmas Eve and another on New Year’s Eve. Celebrate the year that was 2008 in style with great music, tasty eats, and an impressive selection of mixed drinks.
Both events begin at 7pm [...]