Share April 27 2013 Was Definitely a Night To Remember!!! The GWBB (Green, White and Blue Ball) Commission for the fifth year celebrated Sierre Leones 52 Independence with graceful and impeccable style. The event was held at the historical and newly renovated Howard Theatre in Washington, D.C. where people from all walks of life were in attendance.  The mood for [...]

Share With the 2012 Summer Olympics kicking off this Friday in London, our eyes are on our sisters who will be competing in the summer games. These young black female athletes have worked and trained hard to get to the top of their game in their respective sport from basketball, swimming, track, gymnastics and much [...]

Share Nearly 12 million children across South Africa kicked off celebrations Wednesday for the 94th birthday of Nelson Mandela, the country’s deeply loved anti-apartheid icon, with resounding choruses of Happy Birthday. Mandela is expected to spend the day privately with his family at their homestead in his southeastern birth village of Qunu. Meanwhile, communities in South [...]

Share Emmanuel Ohuabunwa not only graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a degree in neuroscience, but he did so with a 3.98 GPA. That’s an academic record! Ohuabunwa who hails from Abia State, has been able to make the nation proud and with his efforts has won himself a scholarship to Yale University to get [...]

Share Today marks three years since the passing onto eternity of the late, great King of Pop Michael Jackson. Ever tragic, in that his demise at age 50 was entirely premature, there’s also a certain sweetness to be sourced from the fact that his impact remains inescapable. Think about it: be it in a commercial, video game, blasting from a [...]

Share Tony O. Elumelu (born March 22, 1963) is a Nigerian economist, banker, investor and philanthropist. He is the Founder of The Tony Elumelu Foundation, an Africa-based and African-funded not-for-profit organisation (NPO) that is dedicated to the promotion and celebration of excellence in business leadership and entrepreneurship across Africa.  Follow AfricanLimelight.com for the latest in entertainment [...]

Share Donna’s family just released a statement, claiming, they “are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continue legacy” TMZ has learned Summer died from lung cancer while  several other sources are say that the disco queen believed she contracted it by inhaling toxic particles after the 9/11 attack in New York City. TMZ reports that the [...]