Thursday, May 10, 2012Xhosa: Embracing Love Through A South African Languageby Ashley Michelle Williams, News Associate, NBCNo matter where you are in the world, sometimes it seems that all you need is love. That is, the love of other people. Indeed, I found this type of love from the overflowing diversity of people who I met when I traveled to South Africa.
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012The Fake Africanby Tobi Runsewe, Graduate, African Leadership AcademyAfrican Youth Journals is a blog written by students currently enrolled in the African Leadership Academy in Honeydew, South Africa. In this post, student Tobi Runsewe of Nigeria writes about "the fake African," a phenomenon she first discovered upon entering college.
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Monday, April 23, 2012Learning from South African Media: We Need Media to Create Positive Role Modelsby Ashley Michelle Williams, News Associate, NBCNelson Mandela is a leader and role model whose inspiring and positive legacy continues to live on. Not only did he change the lives of many South Africans, but he also changed the perspectives of millions around the world.
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Monday, April 09, 2012Can Media Help Youth Rediscover Their Roots and Morals?by Ashley Michelle Williams, News Associate, NBCIn a world in which the media is telling us, the younger generations, to go against who we are and our cultural norms, what can we do to ensure that we and younger generations will not feel obligated to neglect who they are?
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012Dispatch From Tanzania: Faithby Anne M. Wells, Founder and Director, UNITE The World With AfricaMy faith has always been unconventional. I have never been able to fit myself into the box of any church or organized religion. Messages that ring true to me come from all over—Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, new age spirituality, indigenous beliefs, lakes, mountains, the sea, dreams, and beyond. But just recently, in Tanzania, for me, the Divine became real.
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Monday, March 26, 2012Look Into the Mirror of Africaby Ashley Michelle Williams, News Associate, NBCWhen you were younger, did you ever have a moment in which you not only analyzed your appearance, but you also compared it to those around you? I often did this as a young child as I sought to understand who I was and my identity.
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Monday, March 19, 2012Nigeria Occupies This Heart of Mineby Chika Oduah, Multimedia Journalist, Creative Director, SaharaTVTwenty-four years ago, I was displaced from my homeland of Nigeria at a time in my life when I had probably just gained comfort in walking on my two feet. I was not even three years old when I left, accompanied by my heart-faced baby sister and my mother who was determined to create a good life for us in the United States of America.
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Monday, December 12, 2011Op-Ed: Chevron and the Fight Against AIDSby Dr. Ana Ruth Luis, SASBU Medical Director, Southern Africa Strategic Business Unit, Chevron Africa and Latin America ExOn the heels of the ICASA Africa AIDS Conference in Ethiopia, global health leaders once again issued a call to achieve an HIV/AIDS-free generation. Here in Angola, we know that dream is more than a possibility. In our own small way, we are already helping to build the first HIV/AIDS-free generation.
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Thursday, December 01, 2011Embracing Black Womanhood from a Global Perspectiveby Tracey Coleman, Clutch MagazineOriginally published in Clutch Magazine, Tracey Coleman makes a sound case for African-American women to begin understanding the meaning of the African diaspora.
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Thursday, October 27, 2011Cape Town: My Favorite City in the Worldby Ashley Michelle Williams, News Associate, NBCCape Town is a mixture between Los Angeles and New York. It is very urban, but then there is a waterfront right in the city that makes you feel like you are on a beach. It's absolutely beautiful.
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