A few years ago AfricanOz was one of the few organisations telling the stories of African Australians on the internet (see Archives, Features). Now we’re pleased to observe many organisations publishing books &...

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VOTE FOR Oxfam Australia’s Irene Banda from Zambia in Cosmopolitan Magazine’s Fun Fearless Female competition! Go straight to the competition here: http://www.cosmopolitan.com.au/_profile_irene_banda.htm www.cosmopolitan.com.au   or read more from Irene:  Irene writes “I have been living in Sydney for...

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Somali author Nadifa Mohamed (pictured) is one of a few African authors who will talk at Melbourne Writers Festival, 27 Aug – 5 Sept 2010.  Somali author Nadfia Mohamed’s book Black Mamba Boy...

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Those power-packed, glamourous hip-hop sensations, the Killa Queenz, featuring Kween G and Belizean Bombshell (originally from Uganda and Belize, now from Sydney) are touring around Australia in August, with DJ K-Note. They’re  launching the...

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Browse AfricanOz 1st Issue Online! Did you miss the June/July AfricanOz newspaper (in print) containing a mass of stories that weren’t featured online? Now you can browse & read that edition FREE ONLINE...

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QLD, WA & NT are in for a great African music treat in Aug/Sept with  Mandinka Sound, featuring One Africa (King Marong & Lamine Sonko) and Muhanamwé on tour. The concerts, organised by...

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AfricanOz has launched a new FREE, NATIONAL bi-monthly newspaper: AfricanOz in print.  There are 10,000 copies printed and distributed every two months around Australia with Full Colour pictures. Original stories and interviews (most not featured...

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‘Take me as I am’ Mixed media on wood board by Edem Badu Tuesday, August 3, 2010 at 6:30pm Esco Art Gallery, 386-388 Brunswick St, Fitzroy Ghanaian born Artist residing in Melbourne. Debut solo art exhibition....

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African Australians experience widespread direct and indirect racism as part of their daily lives – a new report from the Human Rights Commission shows.   Race Discrimination Commissioner, Graeme Innes, said “The discrimination these people...

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Books

No One’s Son »

No One’s Son Author: Tewodros Fekadu, Contributors: Foreword by Phillip Adams, Edited by Sidhe Kin-Wilde. Genre: Memoir, Size: 536 pages, Release date: October 2009 Now available on AfricanOzshop.com In 1971, a boy is...

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Cola’s Journey (Sudanese Australian) »

Cola’s Journey (Sudanese Australian) By Cola Bilkuei Published 01 Sep 2008 | Paperback | Pan Macmillan Australia | ISBN(13) 9781405038416 | ISBN(10) 1405038411 Cola Biem was born into the Dinka tribal group in the...

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The Millennium Villages Project – Community-led rural development in »

Monday, 6th September, 2010, 6-8pm, Training Room 1, Level 6, UTS Building 10, 235 Jones Street, Ultimo, Suburb/City, Broadway, NSW You are invited! Sydney Develpment Circle September Event “The Millennium Villages Project – Community-led rural development in  Africa” The Millennium Villages are based on a single powerful idea: impoverished communities can transform themselves by 2015 if they...

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The Millennium Villages Project – Community-led rural development in

New Heartlands Refugee Fine Art Prize »

Entries due by Friday 1st October 2010, Send Entries to Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth St, Melbourne 3000, Victoria. Multicultural Arts Victoria and AMES are collaborating to launch the inaugural New Heartlands Refugee Fine Art Prize 2010. The Prize will celebrate the creative talent and social contribution of visual artists from a refugee background. Artists living in...

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New Heartlands Refugee Fine Art Prize

Killa Queenz tour – local hip-hop sensations »

Those power-packed, glamourous hip-hop sensations, the Killa Queenz, featuring Kween G and Belizean Bombshell (originally from Uganda and Belize, now from Sydney) are touring around Australia in August, with DJ K-Note. They’re  launching the new mix CD “Billion Dollar House Party” two discs said to be full of “the biggest and baddest basslines, previously unreleased exclusive...

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Killa Queenz tour – local hip-hop sensations

Killa Queenz tour – local hip-hop sensations »

Those power-packed, glamourous hip-hop sensations, the Killa Queenz, featuring Kween G and Belizean Bombshell (originally from Uganda and Belize, now from Sydney) are touring around Australia in August, with DJ K-Note. They’re  launching the new mix CD “Billion Dollar House Party” two discs said to be full of “the biggest and baddest basslines, previously unreleased exclusive...

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Killa Queenz tour – local hip-hop sensations

African Drum & Dance Workshops with Tuza and Salaka »

Saturday 25 September 2010, 12-1.30pm Drumming (beginners), 2-3.30pm Drumming (intermediate-advanced), 4-5.30pm Dance (all levels)  Address: Canberra Baptist Church, Currie Crescent, Kingston, ACT.     Come and learn the beautiful rhythms and dances of West Africa with Tuza and members of the talented Salaka Ensemble, direct from Ghana on tour in Australia for the third time. A rare opportunity to...

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African Drum & Dance Workshops with Tuza and Salaka

Feature ARCHIVE

Serious Laugh Muj Ahmed

Serious Laugh Muj Ahmed »

[From our Archive published February 2009] AfricanOz chats with comedian and refugee welfare worker Mujahid Ahmed – who’s solo comedy show ‘African Time’ premieres at Adelaide Fringe Festival in March 2009. He’s...

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The Right to Write »

The Right to Write

From our Archive published May 2007 African Australian author and journalist, Edison Yongai, discusses his lifetime love of stories and writing – and its...

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Building new life from Zimbabwe’s stone »

Building new life from Zimbabwe’s stone

[Article published May 2008] While Zimbabwe’s election crisis holds the country on a knife-edge, many Zimbabwean Australians are continuing their day-to-day lives, and...

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Fashion

Life on the move… »

Life on the move…

{From Archive In early 2007] AfricanOz  spoke with model and humanitarian Abang Othow… Photos: www.scenemodels.com 1st image by Marvin Joseph  Since arriving in Australia...

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So African… So Chic…

So African… So Chic… »

[From Archive , Article published May 2009] Who WAS that gorgeous African model on the catwalks of Rosemont Australian Fashion Week 2009? AfricanOz stepped ‘backstage’ to chat to Antoinette Ataro,...

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Books