W.E.B. Du Bois… Facts an’ T’ings February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963 W. E. B. Du Bois was an American civil rights activist, historian, American sociologist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. W. E. B. Du Bois was born William Edward Burghardt Du Bois on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the only child […]
Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH
Queen Nanny c.1686 – c.1755 Queen Nanny or Nanny (c. 1686 – c. 1755), National Heroine of Jamaica, was an 18th-century leader of the Jamaican Maroons. Historical documents refer to her as the “rebels’ old ‘obeah’ woman” but to the Maroons she was revered as a woman of science. Queen Nanny was born into the Asante people in what is today Ghana, […]
Asante Kingdom Because of War By Nicholas Da Silva aka ZOOLOOK The Ashanti Empire (also spelled Asante) was an Akan empire and kingdom in what is now modern-day Ghana from 1670 to 1957. The Ashanti Empire expanded from Asante to include the Brong-Ahafo Region, Central Region, Eastern Region, Greater Accra Region and Western Region of […]
Dread & Alive® Nine Night™ Dread & Alive® is a Jamaican-inspired mixed-media series spanning comic books, novels and music created and written by Nicholas Da Silva (founder & editor-in-chief of IRIE) and published by ZOOLOOK. His work with Dread & Alive® meshes cultural fact with fiction while introducing the Maroons of Jamaica, who resisted against […]
XLNC Ghana XLNC was named Emmanuel Fiifi Botchway at birth in Takoradi in the Western Region of Ghana. He was given the nickname, Scooby Selah, until he became Fiifi Selah. He is an award winning Radio personality, a songwriter, an instrumentalist, a singer and a performing artist based in Accra, Ghana. He is also the […]
Rass Kwame Ghana Music is life, Reggae is the key. Kwame began singing at age nine in his neighborhood of Tesano, in Accra, Ghana. By the time he was 13, he was performing original music in his own band. During the Anansekrom music contest in 1977 (which his band Muri Sundiata won), Kwame picked up […]
Zion Healer Zion Healer, born Wondy Seyfert, is a reggae musician from Ghana who is known for his fusion of English and Ewe, a language mainly spoken in the Volta Region of Ghana, over strong reggae beats with traditional African rhythms. This talented musician is gaining a growing reputation for revolving the lyrical content of […]
WORLDWIDE – June 22, 2017 – 4:20 pm
Photography by: El Puru Black Prophet Stories of Life Black Prophet is an African Roots Rock Reggae singer/songwriter from Accra Ghana. This young man is not your typical reggae artist. He writes as he sees and feels about things going on in the world around him. Black Prophet’s music is different … it’s a mixture […]
