Ready for yet another young person on their grind to greatness? Today’s Entrepreneur Spotlight is Sisi Nike, Makeup Artist and recent Masters in Chemical Engineering Grad.…

The ageless Nia Long is getting ready to walk down the aisle!  The 44 year old actress confirmed that she will soon be marrying her Nigerian…

At the second United Nations Sustainable Energy for All Forum, held this past week in New York City, Akon, announced his new ‘Solar Academy.’ The Academy will launch this summer in Bamako, Mali and is part of his Akon Lighting Africa initiative,  which aims to bring electricity to some of the 600 million Africans who lack it. More on the click.

Whoever came up with the latest Beyonce dancing hashtag that is taking over social media – #BeyonceAlwaysOnBeat – needs some sort of award. The videos that have come out of it are so entertaining!  Catch a few of the funniest after the click.

Dope throwback from The Fader – For 2008’s Africa Issue, The FADER’s Style Editor-At-Large Mobolaji Dawodu and photographer Andrew Dosunmu drove through Lesotho, Mozambique, and South Africa for two weeks, scouting models on the fly, accidentally crashing Maputo Fashion Week, and listening only to Yellowman – the photo results of all that, after the click.

During a recent interview, a few folks feel like Ghanaian rapper, Sarkodie made it seem like US rapper, Ace Hood reached out to him for their highly anticipated collabo, New Guy, instead of getting paid $25,000 dollars to make it happen. Ace and his fans took to twitter to air it out. Details on the click.

Check out this photo of U.S. Marine Cpl. Caleb Earwood and his wife to be Maggie.  Just before the wedding started, the families of the two brought them together so they could pray for a strong marriage and for God to make their union an example for others. Sigh. Love.  Details after the click.

Aww, this story made me smile. Yesterday, Tolu ‘Toolz’ Oniru (who’s hosted/presented a number of shows in Naij including The Midday Show for the Beat 99.5 and The Juice for Ndani TV), and her boyfriend, Tunde Demuren, got engaged while vacaying in the Dominican Republic. The story after the click.

Meet The Hijabi Chronicles, a collective of female hip-hop and spoken word artists of the Muslim faith in California. The group, lead by Alia Sharrief, launched it’s first event at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley, California earlier this month and plans to do more soon. Catch the HuffPost feature after the click.

As someone accustomed to huge headties (by way of my mama), I loved the modern twist captured in the “The Head Dress”, a shoot photographed by South African photographer, Lauren Fletcher. Modeled by the gorgeous Aphelele-Mbiyo, check out the creative shoot after the click.