Prepping for ODUNDE 2026
ODUNDE is not simply a date on Philadelphia’s cultural calendar. Its own site describes it as the largest African American street festival in North America and a long-running institution in the city, with a history that stretches back to 1975. The practical question for 2026 is not only how to attend, but how the festival’s vendor structure, public timing, and business-facing programming shape who gets to participate and on what terms.
Les Éléphants Are Not Underdogs
When Côte d’Ivoire’s national football team arrives in Chester for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, it will not come as a sentimental underdog story. Les Éléphants arrive as three-time African champions, a team with global stars, a proud football culture, and a diaspora ready to welcome them.
The Yearly Gerewol ‘Wife-Stealing’ Festival Explained
Whatever you do, try not to take your wife there on a vacation, she just might not come back with you.
Hang On For A May Finale
If this month has been exhausting so far, then buckle up for a May finale leading to a swoon of June events. Enjoy these enlightening and educational low-cost or free activities, including many that highlight America’s 250th anniversary celebration (America250), or Semiquincentennial. Say that twice!
The Benin Bronze Head: Secrets of a Classic Piece
In Africa, among the many great works of art that exist on the continent, one stands out for the rich historical narrative it tells about a culture and civilization that thrived long before the advent of colonialism. That remarkable work of art is the famous Benin Bronze Head.
How Africans Are Earning Foreign Currency From Home
This is the new wave of migration quietly unfolding across the continent. It doesn’t require airports, visas, or border control. It is called digital migration, and it allows Africans to earn dollars, pounds, and euros from the comfort of their homes.
FunTimes Magazine’s Women of Influence Awards 2026
Some nights feel like a celebration. Others feel like a testimony. Friday, May 22nd night was both the night when resilience became joy, and the night when every story of struggle was transformed into something larger: proof that healing, when sustained by community and commitment, can become a legacy.
“A friend of mine had to fly back to Nigeria for a fibroid operation”
There’s a moment familiar to every Nigerian. You’re stuck in traffic, scrolling through your phone, and then you see the WhatsApp status of one of your friends who “japaed”.
7 Ways to Navigate Stress and Protect Black Mental Health
As a Black person in 2026, navigating the corporate ladders of New York, the rural expanse of the American South, or the economic complexities of South Africa means carrying a unique and often invisible weight.
HBCUs in Search of an African Identity: Awakening from the Eurocentric Whirlwind
Organized by the foundational architect of Afrocentric theory, Professor Molefi Kete Asante, Chair of the Department of Africology at Temple University and founder of the Molefi Kete Asante (MKA) Institute, the gathering at the Pennsylvania Convention Center for the Global Afrocentricity Workshop and Symposium radiated an intense, focused energy.