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August 29 – September 11, 2019
Coming to America: Soap from BYDA Women's Group and More
Gambia River body soap made by the Women's Group of the Baobab Youth Development Association (BYDA) is now available in Metro Washington. The honey and bees wax-based soap comes in seven varieties: cassia, mango, ginger, peppermint (nana), moringa, shea butter, and honey.
Activities
Washington's National Book Festival, Toronto's Caribbean Street Food Festival, RuPaul's DragCon NYC 2019, The Lagos Leather Fair 2019, and the Baltimore Rhythm Festival 2019 are some of the diverse activities taking place around the African world.
Readers' Trends
The most popular Facebook post (see image) not only got many reactions, but many comments and lots of brisk discussion. Surprisingly, our lead article in the last issue was not the most popular, but the fifth listing was the most popular and the previous issue's travel article is still trending.