Making The Grade, But Not The Jobs-The Case Of African Immigrants In The US
Posted by Isaac Amo Kyereme | Posted in African Trumpet News Education Law Immigration and You
Africans immigrants to North America are always presented as hard working, friendly, education-focused minorities that adapt well to their new host countries. This image of the hard-working African immigrant is often presented as a stereotype that is in contrast to U.S. born African (Black) Americans. In fact, the majority of Africans come to the U.S do come for the purposes of education more than any other reason. This has led to a situation where more than one-third (36.6%) of African immigrants to the U.S. have a bachelor’s or higher degree”. When it comes to education, African immigrants as a group have a higher education rate than immigrants from the West Indies, Asia, and Europe. When compared to U.S. citizens more Africans in the U.S report having a college degree than U.S. born minorities (Asian, Latino, and Black Americans). Africans in the U.S. are doing significantly better in educational attainment rates where 36.6% have a bachelors degree compared to 29.5% White Americans who are also the privileged majority and have the most access to the power institutions in the U.S.
EDITION 30 IS OUT
Posted by Isaac Amo Kyereme | Posted in African Market USA African Trumpet News Education Features News African News American News Politics
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AFRICAN TRUMPET EDITION 21
Posted by Isaac Amo Kyereme | Posted in African Market USA African Trumpet News Education Features News African News Politics
Have you picked a copy of our September edition...Stop by the closest African grocery shop, church or restaurant for your copy. You can also download a copy through this link http://www.yudu.com/item/details/408415/AFRICAN-TRUMPET-EDITION-21
South African Consul-General in Los Angeles Talks To African Trumpet
Posted by Isaac Amo Kyereme | Posted in African Market USA African Trumpet News Education News African News American News Personal Politics
Your community newspaper, the African Trumpet was recently granted an interview by Mr Cyril Ndaba, the Consul-General of South Africa. Our correspondent, Isaac Appiah brings you what transpired at the interview.
MONEY MATTERS with Ken Barnes: When Buying A Car…
Posted by Isaac Amo Kyereme | Posted in African Market USA African Trumpet News Education
“Ken, hmm, I sunk into depression a week after I got home with the car, I felt stupid, my intelligence insulted, violated and fooled. I became very mad with myself. I called the dealership to complain about the price, my monthly payments and the fact that there are similar cars on line way cheaper, but there was nothing they could do! I had already signed and there was no return policy.”
I want to devote this month’s write up to discuss my very personal experiences and that of some of my clients in Car buying with you in response to some of the many questions I have received over the years. The aim is to prevent the above experience from happening to you. I will do my best not to be judgmental or accusatory because some of my very best friends are in car industry and they are good people.
OUT OF AFRICA-Presents Math Professor Nkechi Agwu
Posted by Isaac Amo Kyereme | Posted in African Trumpet News Education Features
Nkechi Agwu, Ph.D., is the President of the American Association of University Women New York City (AAUW NYC) Branch. She is a past Executive Vice President, Program Co-Vice President, Public Policy Chair, Black History Chair, By-laws Committee Member, Emerging Leader and Educational Foundation Honoree of the Branch. She has given several workshops and presentations for students and parents within the NYC Branch’s Explore Your Opportunities (EYO) Conference, College/University Program and Black History Program.
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Posted by Isaac Amo Kyereme | Posted in African Trumpet News Education Features News African News American News
England’s Smartest Family is African
Posted by Isaac Amo Kyereme | Posted in African Trumpet News Education Features News African News European News
Peter and Paula Imafidon, 9-year-old twins from Waltham Forest in northeast London, England are a part of the highest-achieving clan in the history of Great Britain education. The two youngest siblings have made British history as the youngest students to ever enter high school. They astounded veteran experts of academia when they became the youngest to ever pass the University of Cambridge’s advanced mathematics exam. That's on top of the fact they have set world records when they passed the A/AS-level math papers.
BY THE FIRESIDE- What Shall I do? By Dr.Vukani G. Nyirenda
Posted by Isaac Amo Kyereme | Posted in Culture Education Entertainment Personal
“What shall I do?”
Zyanga heard herself say. She was sitting on a tree stump in front of her mother’s hut. With her elbows resting on her knees, she balanced her head between her palms. She heard other children sing the children’s dance song, silayo, her heart pumped hard, and she felt lonely.
DEAR WADENYA- I HAVE BEEN FOOLED
Posted by Isaac Amo Kyereme | Posted in Culture Education Entertainment Letters to the editor Personal
I am Sandra, single and a parent of 2 young boys. Three years ago,I met Joshua a father of three girls who told me that he was divorced and that his ex-wife remarried and abandoned them. The eldest child attended camp with my boys and were good friends. so it was no surprise when Joshua and I met and became good friends. Joshua who worked as a Taxi driver desperately needed help with his
kids. I picked up all the kids from school, cooked supervised their homework and most of the times they slept in my home when Joshua worked.Our relationship bloomed into a love affair and we got engaged. We could not afford a wedding right away due to financial constraints, so to cut down on our expenses he moved in my house. My kids called him Dad and his called me Mom.
EDITORIAL-SUPPORT THE AFRICAN TRUMPET
Posted by Isaac Amo Kyereme | Posted in African Trumpet News Education Features Sports Africa News African News
Any time a potential writer or advertiser in conversation inquires after a pause, where are you from? If he does not answer he is from where I am originally from, no matter how excited he was about our project and how happy he is about Africans projecting a positive image of Africa etc.etc, I immediately conclude, that is the last time I will hear from him or her.
It is so sad that even business people looking at the African community market and accept that this vehicle is the best platform for them will still feel reluctant to advertise and support this project just because perhaps the editors name does not sound familiar.
MONEY MATTERS with Ken Barnes: Is there anything like a good debt?
Posted by Isaac Amo Kyereme | Posted in African Business African Market USA African Trumpet News Education Features News American News
Debt- defined loosely as an amount of money owed to a person, organization or nation for funds borrowed is one of the most talked about topics in any household and financial planning workshop. Countries and Nations devote whole ministries and boards to discuss and manage debt. My church, The Solid Foundation Chapel, is currently treating debt as a topic in our practical living series lessons. I have personally over the years taught many workshops on Debt and how to get out of debt. So I will like to discuss an aspect of this all important subject-debt this month!
DEAD FOR WANT OF A BIGGER BUTT
Posted by Isaac Amo Kyereme | Posted in African Trumpet News Culture Education Entertainment Sports America News European News Personal
A Newsdesk compilation
Claudia Aderotimi or Claudia Adusei, was a 20 year old student and dancer who thought enhancing her butt would make her more attractive and get her into more music videos
The Other Africa Exhibit -By Philippe Sibelly
Posted by Isaac Amo Kyereme | Posted in Education Personal
A unique photographic project aiming to showcase a new vision of the African continent will exhibit in Accra, Ghana for the first time in March 2011.
The Other Africa by photographer Philippe Sibelly is a work in development, with the ultimate aim of creating 54 images, one from each country on the continent.
THE TRUTH ABOUT GLOBALIZATION -By Dr Philip Emeagwali
Posted by Isaac Amo Kyereme | Posted in Education
Dr.Emeagwali helped give birth to the supercomputer - the technology that spawned the Internet.
He won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, which has been dubbed the “Nobel Prize of Supercomputing
BY THE FIRESIDE-Murder In The Village
Posted by AfricanTrumpet Admin | Posted in Education
In this edition of By The Fireside, the author, Dr. Yaw O. Adutwum recounts a cold blooded murder which almost destroyed the calm and serene nature of Jachie; a town in the Ashanti region of Ghana where he grew up.
The quest for quality education had brought us back from Antobam, a village in the Western region of Ghana to Jachie; the hometown of my parents. Jachie was a mid size town with a population of about 1000, which was emerging from its village stature since being founded in the late 1700s. Jachie was a quiet and peaceful village: social miscreants were rare to find. At palm wine joints, some men would exchange unsavory words when the palm wine drink made them tipsy or drunk. The palm tree had multifaceted uses: Its branches were used in the weaving of baskets; its fronts were used for roofing of sheds, while its fruits were utilized for soup and oil. Whenever the palm tree grew taller it was hard to harvest its fruits. This was the best time for tapping its wine potential; the job of which fell on "palm wine tappers". In the first few weeks of wine tapping, the wine drawn from the palm tree was very sweet with very little alcoholic content. This was a delicacy for women and children. After a few days however, the wine became more fermented increasing substantially its alcoholic content; at which time palm wine became a preserve of the men of the town. At Jachie and other outlying towns and villages women who drank were generally looked down upon. Therefore it was not strange that palm wine joints mostly had male audiences.
TERORISM IS DEVILISH AND UNACCEPTABLE - AFRICAN CULTURAL EXCHANGE
Posted by AfricanTrumpet Admin | Posted in African Trumpet News Culture Education
By: Ekow Mensah-Shalders ...........
In the wake of the abortive terrorist attack on board flight NW235 from Amsterdam Schiphol to Detroit USA on December 25 2009,The African Cultural Exchange(A.C.E) of Fordham University says the act is barbaric and devilish and must be condemned by all well meaning individuals and organizations the world over.
The African Cultural Exchange, An organization that promotes African values and culture says it is appalled by this act of terrorism and condemns it in no uncertain terms.
In a Media release signed by the secretary of the organization, Mr.Kojo Ampah .The A.C.E said "terrorism is a crime against humanity no matter where it is committed and whom it is committed against. It is an act of cowardice, devilish and unacceptable."
Even though the unfortunate incident according to the release has placed Africa in a bad light,
it believes America will not shut the open doors of opportunities in the face of Africans who mean well.
CIRCLES-BOOK REVIEW
Posted by Saddat Adutwum | Posted in Education
A new book attracting a lot of attention here in the United States and on the continent since it’s release is CIRCLES, written by a wonderful African woman, Boakyewaa Glover.
BY THE FIRESIDE-Story Time
Posted by Saddat Adutwum | Posted in Culture Education
The writer, Dr. Yaw O. Adutwum is the founder and chief executive officer of New Designs Charter schools in Los Angeles. In this series he recounts his experiences as a child in Ghana.
African Trumpet is Born!
Posted by 180byDesign | Posted in African Trumpet News Education Features
And Africans in America say Welcome, Bienvenue, Akwaaba, Mwabonwa, Mwalandiridwa, Fosori, Weizo, Toolii, Heni odjen, Baruch haba, Ilo la, E kaabo, Emukela.
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