Ultimately in his story, Nigerian writer and director C.J. Obasi is asking pertinent questions of West Africans in particular, and Africans at large.

LOS ANGELES — Surf shops and Southern California go together like sand and beaches. But there’s a new surf shop like no other, and it’s in Venice Beach. Mami Wata is the first African surf shop in the ...

Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and the African Atlantic World, Fowler Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, April 6-August 10, 2008; Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin ...

Superposition Gallery is presenting “Mami Wata,” a group exhibition exploring Black spirituality curated by founder Storm Ascher, now through November 30 at Eastville Community Historical ...

Nick Dutton is Co-Founder and CEO of Mami Wata, a premium African surf brand based out of Cape Town. Launched in April 2017, the brand is sold globally. Prior to this, Dutton worked in London at ...

Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat running for mayor of New York City, was born in Uganda. He doesn’t consider himself Black but said the application didn’t allow for the complexity of his background.

Africa’s economy is projected to increase from 3.3 percent growth in 2024 to 3.9 percent in 2025, reaching 4 percent in 2026, despite mounting geopolitical uncertainties and trade tensions, the ...

C.J. 'Fiery' Obasi. Writer: Mami Wata. Born and raised in small town, Owerri, Nigeria. C.J. grew up watching Hammer House horror films and reading Stephen King novels. As a child, he developed a knack ...