BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – Barbados will host the 8th Annual African Diaspora Heritage Trail (ADHT) conference here next month. The September 17-19 conference, expected to be attended by approximately 400 members of the African Diaspora will be held under the theme “Our Freedom, Our Identity: Uncover, Recover, Discover”. The organisers said the primary goal is [...]
Cultural Tourism in Cards for Barbados
June 25, 2012 | Posted by
Barbados is looking to cultural heritage tourism as it seeks to diversify its visitor attractions. Minister of Tourism and acting Prime Minister Richard Sealy said on Friday the island had joined a number of tourism destinations across the globe that are now targeting this niche market which is already providing business for the island. He [...]
France’s Black Community Reacts to Sarkozy’s Defeat
May 8, 2012 | Posted by
Today is France’s second day with a new president in power: socialist François Hollande won a narrow victory with 51.5 percent. RNW asked young French Africans in Paris about their choices: did voters’ personal backgrounds play a role in choosing their country’s new president? It seems most Franco-Africans voted for the “less worse candidate.” “I [...]
