MINNEAPOLIS – The agenda for the recently held African Women in the Diaspora Conference included lectures on gender issues, human rights issues with regard to sex and labor human trafficking, and widowhood. But perhaps the most often discussed topic was the practice of female genital cutting.
Marianne Neba is 18 years old, a native of Cameroon who immigrated to the United States a few years ago and recently graduated from Park Center High school Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. For the last three years, Neba has been a participant of the AGILE/Amakolo African Girls Pathways to Success project offered by the Minnesota African…
Do you know that many household cleaners that you buy to clean around the home, wash your dishes, wash your clothes, etc. are actually harmful to you as your breathe them in while cleaning around the home? Do you know you can make your own non-toxic household cleaners at home, using vinegar and other ingredients…
It is not quite often that discussions around sexuality or teen pregnancy come up in African immigrant homes. Even when these discussions prop triggered in some cases by television programs or movies, parents more often will always fall back to what their customs and traditions proscribe. Read more
Nyango Melissa Nambangi, founder of the Minnesota African Women’s Association (MAWA) received the Women’s of Distinction award from Century College on December 8, 2005. She and two other women are the first to receive the recently established award Read more
Sunday May 8, 2011, is Mother’s Day. The day traditionally serves to honor and celebrate all mothers. As a son, with a wife, and as a father to two daughters, it is my honor and privilege to not only pay tribute to these women in my life, but to all African women in Minesota. Read…
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