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The Golden generation of Africans in Germany: Ivy Quainoo is “The Voice of Germany” The 19-year-old Ivy Quainoo has won the talent show “The Voice of Germany”. The Ghanaian-German from Berlin-Neukölln convinced the audience at the final show on Friday night with three very strong songs. Her coach, Alec and Sasha from the band BossHoss were very proud of her performances throughout the show. From the beginning neither Ivy nor her coach, The BossHoss musicians were regarded as favorites in the final show. Ivy competed against three very strong candidates from the coaches Nena, Xavier Naidoo and Rea Gavey -…

HANY AZER: The African who wrote Architectural History in Germany Engr. Hany Azer, an African of implacable engineering talent is the Architect of one of the world most modern and most expensive train station, costing about 700 million Euro. The construction which swallowed up 500 000 cm3 concrete and 85 000 tone of metal was finally opened to traffic on the 26th of May 2006. The train station is the New Berlin central station. It has 54 moving steps, 43 lifts, over 15 000 m2 shopping centre and 42,000 m2 office block spread over three floors and the station is…

Nana Akufo-Addo expresses confidence in Ghana’s Electoral Commission The presidential candidate of New Patriotic Party (NPP)Ghana’s main opposition political party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, stressed inBerlintoday thatGhanahas a satisfactory electoral structure to conduct credible elections. Speaking at a one-day conference themed: Stability or Crisis – Has Africa A Choice? Organised by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Nana Akufo-Addo said he was “reasonably satisfied with the quality of the people running the electoral commission,” stressing that “it can be trusted to conduct future elections”. “I may have to re-visit the question as to the quality of the people running the commission, when,…

Photo: Cross section of main speakers (back row) Kenneth Alakwe, Kenneth Gbandi, Franncis Emele, Dr.  Lere Shakunle, Heicent Nduka Maduadi (front row) Luke Etoh, Obiora Nweke, Osaze Irowa, Chief Johnson Shoyoye, Mrs. Tonia Egbuna, Engr Emeka Udeajah, Sunday O. Ajala: The forum which is the brain child of the African Heritage Magazine team represented by Hon. Kenneth Gbandi and Mr Obiora Nweke and the African Courier Magazine Team Represented by Mr. Femi Awoniyi and  Mr Kenneth Alakwe, held in Nigerian House,  Oranienburg Str. 159 Berlin. It drew lots of stakeholders from various German cities and officials of the Nigerian…

– Dr Emmanuel Franklyn Ogbunwezeh,  heads the Africa desk in Human Rights Watch, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany. History has shown that almost all the voices that ever “cried in the wilderness”, calling for change to a rotten status quo, ended up having their decapitated heads offered as gifts of tyranny to adultery. To this end, every John the Baptist must lose his head to the daughter of an adulteress. Tyranny knew that by making peaceful evolution impossible, it constructs breweries of discontent across the land; which grows to make violent revolution inevitable. In spite of this, tyranny seeks every…

Guinea’s newly accredited ambassador to Federal Republic of Germany, Ibrahima Sory Sow, presented his Letters of Credence to President Christian Wulff at the Castle Bellevue in Berlin. After taking ceremonial salute by a detachment of the German Marines (Navy), Ambassador Sow signed the official Guest Book and was ushered in by officials of the German Foreign Ministry and the Presidential Office to the Presidential Suite where he was received by the president. President Wulff and Ambassador Sow later met behind closed doors for discussions believed to centre on bilateral relations between Germany and Guinea, regional as well as international issues.…

Africa-Fair-Hamburg from 25 – 27. Mai 2012The “Afrika-Africa association” commissioned the company “Franke Spezialreisen UG” to organize the “Afrika-Messe-Hamburg” (Africa-Fair-Hamburg). Purpose of the association “Afrika-Africa association” is to help needy orphans and street children in Africa by raising funds and donations. These funds will be in the construction and maintenance of orphanages used. “We want to show the visitors also the continent with all its wealth of African art and culture, its diversity of peoples and landscapes, but also its opportunities, problems and changes”, siad the organizers. Besides the exhibition we offers an interesting program of presentations, more opportunities to…

Meet zahra universe, the next official Artist for the  African Cup of Nation 2013 @ Afrika Outlook TV Hamburg. This weekend on Kabel Deutschland in analogue Channel 21, by willy.tel & wilhem.tel in analogue Channel 34 and also in digital Free-TV & by MartensTV in analogue of Chanel 9.  African Heritage Magazine Production, Every Tuesdays 18:45, Thursdays 12:30 and Saturdays 15:00.

The 100 Most Influential Africans in Germany 2011 Following our 50 prominent Africans in Germany first published in 2006 and 100 most influential Africans in Germany published in 2009, we have each year followed up with the 100 most influential Africans in Germany. One of the 100 nominations would eventually be selected under thorough scrutiny by the editorial team as the African Heritage man or woman of the year. This special edition usual generates a great deal of interests and excitements and we are sure this year would not be different. To be sure we meet the expectations of our…

(v.l Toni Tuklan, Stephan Bührich and Massiv Rex) Stephan Bührich, the Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic Ghana, the head of over 25 African Honorary Consuls in Hamburg and the Chairperson of African Group at the Hamburg Chambers of Commerce met with the Nigerian-born Reggae-Dancehall duo, Famous-T (Toni Tuklan) & Massiv Rex  on Africa Outlook TV Hamburg. African Outlook TV is viewed on TIDE TV, Kabel Deutschland in analogue Channel 21, by willy.tel & wilhem.tel in analogue Channel 34 and also in digital Free-TV & by Martens TV in analogue of Chanel…