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AfroFuture Fest, Afrochella, the future is Afro

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Affectionately known as Detty December, this is the month that the Western region of Africa hosts a season-long lineup of festival-hopping partygoers at carnivals and concerts,inspiring thousands of people from across the diaspora to flock to their ancestral land for the holidays. Though many aren’t quite sure how Detty December originated, what was once a tradition reserved for people on the continent has become a time when overseas visitors, including Black Americans, are choosing " Read More...

Alfred Eisenstaedt: Powerful Portraits of Depression-Era Sharecroppers

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In September 1936, two months before the debut issue of LIFE magazine hit newsstands, Henry Luce and his colleagues at Time Inc. produced an 80-page “dummy” issue of the as-yet-unnamed publication. Designed and produced, in large part, to spark interest among potential advertisers, the issue was the same sort of large-format, photo-driven entity that would soon become familiar to millions of readers around the world as a weekly called LIFE. Read More...

BREAKING: Tears as Former Enugu Senator Ayogu Eze Dies in Abuja

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A former Senate spokesperson, Senator Ayogu Eze, has passed away at the age of 66 at an Abuja hospitalThe late senator reportedly died after suffering from an undisclosed illness on Thursday, April 25The former Enugu state governorship candidate was said to have been sick and was unable to attend his child's weddingLegit.ng journalist Adekunle Dada has over 5 years of experience covering metro and government policy FCT, Abuja - Senator Ayogu Eze, who represented Enugu North Senatorial Zone in the national assembly between 2007 and 2015, is dead. Read More...