Carnival de Cuba London Festival is back to London for 2008 with a huge showcase of live music, dance, workshops and more on to Southwark Park along Jamaica Road. The theme for Carnival de Cuba 2008 “Out of Africa” celebrates Cuba's roots in Africa. The Park was alive with Latin spirit in Carnival de Cuba, buzzing with vibrancy, energy and colour. The Carnival retunes with a big bang. For the two days event, organiser’s recons that there must have been about 50,000 people who enjoyed the best music and dance from Cuba for the two days events. Salsa/ Conga music bands was on display as well as “hip hop” Cuban style and also food, Read more

This year Afro Hair & Beauty Live 2008 is as brilliant as ever. The event which is at 26th year now, has once again proved to be the undoubtedly annual show case of Afro hair beauty and was hosted at its now traditional home, the famous Alexandra Palace. The event has never been better, buzzing with Afro hair designers, saloons, punters looking for cut-prize hair-do bargain and promoters of all sorts of Afro Hair products, including Organic hair products.

As usual Wannabes of Afro hair stylists and hairdressers carefully watches every movement of the   experts   hands   at work. Every year ... Read more

A black woman, an African author, Ngozi Adichie, on June 6th 2007 won one of Britain’s biggest literary prizes for women.

The £30,000 12th Orange Broadband prize for fiction was awarded to the young Nigerian writer whose story was centred on the 1967/70 Nigerian civil war. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, follows five people through the darkest period of the South-Eastern Nigerians... Read more