Africa News – Caribbean Life

Staffers of the Ghana Tourism Authority proudly display their country’s flag for Caribbean Life, at the 2026 New York Travel & Adventure show at the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan, on Jan. 24. From left, Annabelle McKenzie, Genevive Nyagbe, Selasi Piphanje, Wisdom Ahadzi, and Michelle Konadu.

Tourism

Ghana Awaits: Where nightlife, nature and heritage collide

By Tangerine Clarke

Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister, Gaston Browne.

Health

Cuban Doctors Out

By Bert Wilkinson

From left, Dr. Natasha Telesford, VP of CMM; Brenda Brown, volunteer; Daidrey DaSilva, Jamaica Cancer Society; and Dr. Donna Hutton-Cassie, CMM president, present a check at the Jamaica Cancer Society office in St. Ann, Jamaica.

Africa

CMM Black-Tie Gala to support medical missions to Caribbean, Africa

By Nelson A. King

Imam Shaykh Safraz Bacchus, center engaged several African children during his 2024 trip to continue his humanitarian work, He distributed school supplies and food hampers.

Africa

From Senegal to The Gambia: Imam Bacchus reflects on Slave Trade atrocities

By Tangerine Clarke

Grenada's Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell addresses the opening of the 4th Annual AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum in St. George, Grenada on Monday, July 28, 2025.

Africa

Turning the tide

By Bert Wilkinson

Dr. Marguerite Thompson, right, with granddaughters Patrice Eleah, left, front, and Marguerite Allen, back, and Pastor the Rev. Roger Jackson during Dr. Thompson's 94th Birthday celebration at FSUMC on Oct. 6, 2024.

Black History Month

Black History Month Celebration: Dr. Marguerite Thompson, a renaissance woman

By Nelson A. King

Jamaican Canadian Keondra Tomlinson-Gayle, right, is being presented with her certificate of Ghanaian citizenship by President President Akufo-Addo after being sworn in among more than 200 Afro-Caribbean citizens at a ceremony on Nov. 19, 2024, in Accra, Ghana.

More than 200 Afro-Caribbean Diaspora members obtain Ghanaian citizenship

By Tangerine Clarke

From left, Tristan, Kelly, Kezia, and Nikita learn about the heroic actions of civil rights leaders at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

Africa

Brownsville students on mission to homeland in Ghana

By Nelson A. King

Barbados Prime Minister, Mia Mottley.

Africa

Growing Caribbean-Africa relations signal new opportunities

By Bert Wilkinson

From left, Mark Dei, Barbados, VP, Ghana Caribbean Association; Malissa Garner, Guyana, events director (and champion of the initiative) for the GCA; Akwasi Abadio, Ghana, director of the Diaspora Affairs, and Kevoy Burton, Jamaica, president, GCA.

Africa

First Caribbean Week Ghana to take center stage from June 1 – 8, 2024, in Accra, Ghana

By Tangerine Clarke

Zante Sesame Flyers Dancers.

News

BMCC celebrates Afrikan Heritage Month

By Nelson A. King

CARICOM Secretary-General Dr. Carla Natalie Barnett.

Africa

Africa, Caribbean move to strengthen relations

By Bert Wilkinson

Far Rockaway, Queens native Gary Hilliard annually attends AADP in Harlem. Last year was no different, here he is joined by senior from the Bronx, Vena Baker.

Manhattan

Harlem bids farewell to summer with weekend last lap street fest

By Vinette K. Pryce

Members of Alma Moyo band, featuring Oxil Febles dancing (front). On drums Manuela Arciniegas, Nelson Cabassa, Ariel LaSalle. Behind Febles: Alex LaSalle and Ines Mangual.

Bronx

Summer Event Series highlights Congolese influence in Caribbean music and dance

By Milette Millington

Decked out in traditional African wear, singer of the NYC Nayhabinghi ensemble paid tribute to the ancestors with moving renditions, at the 34th Annual Tribute to the Ancestors on the Coney Island boardwalk on June 10, 2023.

Brooklyn

Heartwarming tribute to the ancestors at Coney Island

By Tangerine Clarke

Ailey II in Alvin Ailey's Revelations.

Ghana spotlights DanceAfrica 2023 at BAM

By Vinette K. Pryce

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