Gospel singer Mercy Chinwo and her husband, Blessed Uzochikwa, have welcomed their second child. The couple announced the news in a joint post on Friday, sharing themed brown-and-white photos radiating joy and gratitude. They wrote, “The Lord has done it again! He has added to our joy… multiplied our laughter… and blessed us with […]

Malnutrition has killed 63 people, mostly women and children, in just one week in Sudan’s besieged city of El-Fasher, a senior health official said Sunday, as fighting between the army and rival paramilitaries intensifies in the western region. The official from North Darfur’s health ministry, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity, said the […]

Eddie Palmieri, who revolutionized Latin music and played a major role in the salsa explosion in New York City, passed away Wednesday at the age of 88, according to the artist’s official social media account. The “legendary pianist, composer, bandleader, and one of the most influential figures in Latin music history, passed away in his […]

  Bae Kyung-mi was five years old when the Americans dropped “Little Boy”, the atomic bomb that flattened Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Like thousands of other ethnic Koreans working in the city at the time, her family kept the horror a secret. Many feared the stigma from doing menial work for colonial ruler Japan, and […]

  Nwanze is a partner at SBM Intelligence The contrasting attitudes of two prominent British politicians of ethnic minority heritage – Kemi Badenoch (of Nigerian descent) and Rishi Sunak (of Indian origin) – towards their ancestral homelands reveal much about colonialism’s enduring legacies and the complexities of national identity. While Sunak, the UK’s first Indian-origin […]