African DiasporaThe much anticipated Miss East Africa UK 2007 finally took place on 1st September at the prestigious Conway Hall, London. The event saw 21 year old Ugandan medical physics student Maureen Nyakaira steal the crown under a very stiff competition from contestants from Tanzania, Malawi, Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea. Maureen, who is a student at Cardiff University in Wales, expressed a mixed reaction to winning the crown. “I will remember this night for the rest of my life, at first I was shocked, Is it me really? But then that was my number they called,” she said. Meanwhile the crowd cheered as the humble beauty claimed the prestigious title. However the Head judge of the night Actress Rachel Ritfeld described Maureen as humble, graceful and very natural and she would go along way in raising awareness for East African under privileged children.
Miss East Africa UK was attended by guests not only from East African community but other parts of Africa and Europe with special guests of the night ex-war child Emmanuel Jal and Cindy of the famous Ugandan girl band Blu*3. The highlight of the night was the performance by the Sudanese ex-war child soldier Emmanuel Jal. He wooed the crowd with his unique style of gospel rap with its message of peace and reconciliation born out of his experiences as a child soldier in Sudan.
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formation of the Ghana American Stock Exchange (GASE), believed to be the first public stock exchange organized exclusively to foster the sale of stock in African and American businesses. 
Displeased with the continuous unenthusiastic reporting on Africa, Salim Amin son of the late veteran photojournalist Mohamed Amin, recently founded Africa TV under the tutelage of his media firm Camerapix Productions. The aim as told to a gathering of former African Heads of State and other delegates at the Witwatersrand University in South Africa is to tell the stories of Africa from an African view point. Thus the media project is targeted at the entire African continent and the rest of the planet in an effort to massage African self confidence and perception. Binyavanga Wainaina, Caine Prize Winner and founder of the widely acclaimed literary journal ‘Kwani?’, in a piece ‘How to Write about Africa’ published in Grantas magazine wrote ‘….prominent ribs, naked breasts, an AK47,…use these’. This perhaps highlights the bitter derision Africans themselves have developed with regard to how international media report on their continent. 
Many people world-wide have definitely not heard about the following African Scientists and their works: Charles Drew, Garrett Morgan, George Washington Carver, Benjamin Banneker, Elijah McCoy, Lewis Latimer, Jan Matzeliger, Granville Woods, Fred Jones, Otis Boykin and others. Their names and contributions are so important to science and humanity but long years of institutionalised discrimination and parochial ethnocentrism have made their names appear obscure in our often, monoculturally-focused history. Indisputably, Africans have made significant contributions to various areas of science. In the field of chemistry, Africans have developed synthetic drugs for the treatment of chronic ailments. In the field of physics, Africans have helped to invent laser devices for the treatment of cancer patients. 
This book gives the historian, reader, researcher, students, teachers and friends of Africa the opportunity to discover inventors from a world hitherto unknown to many westerners. It is an invaluable book that discloses information on inventors who, until now have remained obscure and unknown. Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 Years of Success, clearly outlines Black inventors from over seventy countries. 
