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The Black British Filmmaker’s Guide to Success: Interview with author Nadia...
Nadia Denton For any artist who is part of a community, networking and sharing information become somewhat second nature. When former film festival director Nadia Denton decided to write her first...
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Fela! Cast Members Teach Howard University Dance Class
Do the cast members of the hit broadway musical Fela! ever get a breather? Even while on tour with the show, many of them take time out to do work in the community. US-based Life Giver Entertainment...
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African Elections on Film
Why is President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf still the only female head of state in the whole of Africa? The answer to that question stumps Sengbe Kona Khasu director of the documentary No More Selections,...
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Mother Africa and her Talents
Mother Africa and her Talents was a night of African Fashion and music last Sunday, with a diverse array of fashions from designers around the diaspora. MCeed by talk show host Sinota Odu, and radio...
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A Ziggy Marley Love Fest at Washington, DC’s Howard Theatre
Ziggy Marley performs at the newly renovated historic Howard Theatre in Washington, DC Ziggy Marley, the eldest son of reggae icon Bob Marley, is on a Wild and Free Tour through the USA and Canada. And...
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Ms. Sierra Leone USA Women’s Leadership and Scholarship Pageant 2012
Ruby Johnson, Miss Sierra Leone USA 2012, with runners-up Fatmata Barrie and Adiatu Bangura With most of the Washington, DC area still reeling from last Friday’s killer storm that caused widespread...
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Interview: Hugh Masekela on Songs of Migration and Heritage Restoration
Hugh Masekela and Sibongile Khumalo (Photos courtesy Kennedy Center) Listening to Hugh Masekela speak on art, music and politics would make you think he is the eternal pessimist. But that would be only...
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Kadiatu Kamara and EbonyM Magazine – Fashion and Print Match
Evelyn Beckley founder of EbonyM and Kadiatu Kamara, designer When EbonyM Magazine founder Evelyn Beckley decided to launch her new society publication, her choice for the cover feature? Former model...
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Interview: Sister Carol and Black Uhuru’s Michael Rose Live at Howard Theatre
Michael Rose When comedian Jimmy Fallon introduced Bill Cosby on his late night TV talk show earlier this month, house band The Roots broke into Black Uhuru‘s “Sponji Reggae,” and Cosby came in doing...
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Blitz the Ambassador’s Afropolitan Dreams Block Party
Blitz the Ambassador goes airborne during his performance in Brooklyn, NY What could beat a free block party in Brooklyn, New York thrown by Blitz the Ambassador and featuring French duo Les Nubians,...
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CEO of NAFCA Talks to Afrofusion TV about the African Oscars
Dr. Victor Olatoye, the CEO of the Nollywood and African Film Critics Awards (NAFCA) loves movies, but he was tired of watching Nollywood films that he thought were not up to par. So he decided that...
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K.D. Aubert, Genevive Nnaji, Jackie Appiah among winners at The African...
Actor K. D. Aubert arrives at the Warner Theatre for the NAFCA event On the red carpet at Washington, DC’s Warner Theatre, actress K. D. Aubert was hopeful yet confident that she would win in one of...
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Jimmy Cliff’s “Many Rivers Crossed Tour” Hits DC
Reggae Icon Jimmy Cliff in his element at the Howard Theatre in Washington, DC Jimmy Cliff kicked off the show on the nyabinghi drum Who knew that Wonderful World, Beautiful People was inspired by a...
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DC Artists Wayna and Wes Felton hold CD Release Show, hosted by Asheru
Promoted by DJ Munch’s Hedrush, Grammy-nominated Ethiopian born artist Wayna and another DC local Wes Felton are both celebrating their new album releases at the U Street Music Hall on Sunday November...
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The Afropolitan Presence at the African Diaspora Awards 2013
Yaya Alafia talks with Afrofusion TV on the red carpet at the African Diaspora Awards 2013 It wasn’t quite the coincidence – or was it? – that at Applause Magazine‘s African Diaspora Awards in New York...
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Dutty Bookman on the Reggae Revival Movement
Since returning from one of the world’s largest reggae festivals – the Rototom – in Spain this past August, Jamaican author and cultural activist Dutty Bookman has been more encouraged to spread the...
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Gbenga Akinnagbe talks with Afrofusion TV about producing “Newlyweeds”
Nzinga Blake interviews Gbenga Akinnagbe in Silver Spring, MD It was a mild October night when Afrofusion met up with former host of the ABC show Culture Click Nzinga Blake at a Silver Spring, MD bar,...
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Decoding The Expats : Wayna’s Interview with Afrofusion TV
I don’t know if it matters that Ethiopian American singer/songwriter Wayna‘s sophomore album Higher Ground is high on a list of top 25 most slept-on soul albums of the last decade. After all it’s...
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Director of Ethiopian Indie Difret on his Award-Winning Film
Zeresenay Berhane Mehari introduces his film “Difret” at the AFI Silver Theatre It’s hard to imagine how one could see Difret, the independent film by Ethiopian filmmaker Zeresenay Berhane Mehari, and...
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A Conversation with “An African City” actress Esosa E.
Ghanaian Restaurant and bar Bukom Cafe was perhaps the apt setting for a recent interview we did with actress Esosa E., one of the stars and producers of a new web series An African City. The gorgeous...
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