Op-ed

When Umoja Generational Wealth (UGW), the global community for African and African Diaspora entrepreneurs, business owners and professionals, holds the Ubuntu Awakening Summit 2025 in São Tomé & Principe in August, we intend to deliver.

On behalf of FamotaX. and Jaequitas , I had the pleasure of attending the symposium on sustainable trade with Africa, organized by the #SDGCAFÉ in The Hague at the Malietoren on Tuesday, 11th February.

The symposium focused on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive of the European Union (https://commission.europa.eu/business-economy-euro/doing-business-eu/sustainability-due-diligence-responsible-business/corporate-sustainability-due-diligence_en) which came into effect on 25th July 2024. I would like to extend my gratitude to the keynote speaker, Mr. Marhijn Visser of VNO-NCW and Carola Baller of the same organization, Mr. Mattijs Renden of NABC Netherlands-African Business Council, Mr. Vincent Gambrah , and Mr. Max Koffi for sharing their valuable insights.

In this story from our Remember Statia print publication, the descendants of a Nigerian mother and daughter can only trace their earliest roots back to Statia.

Why do we maintain all these different airlines in the Caribbean region?

So my five days in St. Maarten last week went by like a roller coaster with hardly any sleep and my boi Francisco dragging me from event to event, showing off the roster of artists that he boasts at his Caribbean Riddim agency. Friday night April 19 was one such stop on the roller coaster.

Everything has been taken from our Ancestors. But I look at it like this: time has proven us right. We’re here to set things straight. When everything is taken from you, it is an opportunity to take everything you don’t have. You have the opportunity now to give everything back to them, by writing their stories. To do them justice.”

Have you ever sat in a history class that in itself was writing history? Well I just did!

KHARTOUM, Sudan — Nearly 230,000 children, pregnant women and new mothers could die in the coming months due to hunger unless urgent, life-saving funding is released to respond to the massive and worsening crisis in Sudan, Save the Children said.

Nearly 700,000 people have now fled from extreme violence in Sudan to eastern Chad. One in three people in this deeply afflicted area is a refugee. Survivors have escaped atrocities, but now face extreme neglect and a daily struggle for survival.