The African Cultural Alliance of North America Inc. (ACANA) is proud to host the 6th Annual African Festival! Date: Saturday August 3, 2013 Time: 2pm-8pm Place: Great Plaza at Penn's Landing Cost: FREE! The African Festival is an outdoor concert experience that brings ... Read more...

Around the 12th century, the University of Timbuktu in Mali had an attendance of 25,000 students in a city which had a population of 100,000 people. The students came from all corners of the African continent in search of excellence in knowledge and trade. Today, Timbuktu is under dea... Read more...
![[EVENT] 4th Annual Earth Uprising: Rebirthing The Planet Earth Day Fest & Flea Market April 21](http://iamnotarapperispit.com/wp-content/uploads/ED2012_jpg-CONVERT-resize400.jpg)
What: “Africa’s Future in African Hands” International speaking tour featuring Nurse Midwife Mary Koroma from Sierra Leone, West Africa When/Where: 1st, 9am-5pm at the Fourth Annual Earth Uprising Fest & Flea in Clark Park, 43rd & Chester Ave, West Philadelphia; T... Read more...

Music From Saharan Cellphones Vol. 1 Music from Saharan cellphones is a compilation of music collected from memory cards of cellular phones in the Saharan desert. And it's coming to vinyl. In much of West Africa, cellphones are are used as all purpose multimedia devices. In lieu of personal co... Read more...

NATIONAL DEBTS [col. writ. 7/30/11], (c) Mumia Abu-Jamal Amidst the political brinksmanshlp occasioned by the rising of the national debt ceiling, a question arises. What is the nation's debt? Of the 14.3 trillion cited in published accounts, over a quarter of that amount, or $4.4 tril... Read more...
Olaudah Equiano (Gustavas Vassa) was captured as a slave from Nigeria in West Africa as a child and served under serveral masters in the Caribbean and America. He was owned for a short period by a wealthy Philadelphia Quaker Merchant and slave dealer named Robert King, who belonged to Arch Street ... Read more...
Ancestral Voices: Esoteric African Knowledge An educational documentary spanning two continents, opening up a much-needed debate about traditional African spiritual systems; their cosmologies, ideologies and underlying ethical principles. Modern science no longer refutes the origins of manki... Read more...