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‘On Monday of Last Week,’ a movie directed and produced by Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu has earned a nomination at the 2017 Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA). The awards scheme honours and promotes excellence in the African movie industry...

A student from South West London has smashed her education crowdfunding initiative – with a little help from Stormzy. Fiona Asiedu set up a crowdfunding account to raise the £12,000 she needed to cover the cost...

The annual Screen Nation Film & Television Awards popularly known as ‘the black Bafta’s’ and acknowledged by the industry as ‘the’ media event for diverse talent returned once again to the South of London, as the...

Rappers Stormzy and Vic Mensa have been named as two of the artistes to perform at the 2017 Made In America Festival. The two acts will join a tall list of artistes scheduled to perform at...

Nana Mensah has earned a second nomination for her ‘Man From Nebraska‘ role. Mensah was nominated in the ‘Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play‘ category by the Outer Critics Circle, an organization of  writers covering New...

BAFTA winner Michaela Coel says she was prepared to lose her latest role rather than play the part of a stereotypical “black friend”. The actress was offered a supporting role in the musical Been So Long,...

Just a few days before his earth strong in March, I join producer Nana Kwabena with a few of his friends at Negril, a Caribbean eatery in New York’s West Village. After wrapping up our interview...

Nominations for the 2017 Screen Nation Film and Television Awards has been announced by the organizers. The awards scheme dubbed The Black BAFTAs, rewards the very best in black British achievement in film and TV. This year’s edition...

Edward Enninful has been named the new editor of British Vogue. He becomes the first black male editor of the magazine, and takes over from Alexandra Shulman who was in charge for 25 years. The 44-year old...

Actress Nana Mensah has earned a nomination at the 2017 Lucille Lortel Awards. She was nominated in the Outstanding Featured Actress In a Play category for her role in ‘Man From Nebraska‘ a play about a man’s loss...

It’s a cold, rainy morning in South London, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, wearing jeans and fluffy slippers, is stirring a pot of homemade porridge. There’s an easy confidence about her, a welcoming warmth and humor. Her duplex...

Adwoa Aboah has just finished a stellar catwalk season. No doubt her biggest yet. In New York she walked for Marc Jacobs and Coach; London: Topshop and Erdem; Milan: Versace and Fendi; and in Paris she...

Yaa Gyasi has won the 2017 PEN/Hemingway Award for her novel Homecoming. Judges of the award scheme praised Gyasi’s novel as “towering book––imaginative, artful and insightful, and striking in its scope.” She will receive a cash prize of US$25,000,...

We start this week with heartwarming news, Ghanaian Nancy Abu-Bonsrah becomes the first black female Neurosurgeon at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Abu-Bonsrah left Ghana at the age of 15, and has been in the U.S for...

U.S. Based Ghanaian Digital Entrepreneur Benoni Tagoe is working on a new project with Basketball star Lebron James. The former will be consulting on digital strategy and the development of  UNINTERRUPTED, a podcast network owned by...