African Businesses in Philadelphia
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Mr
Omenihu Amachi is a fine artist and broadcaster who has teamed up with
MJoTA to present MJoTAtalks. He runs Amachi Studios where he paints on commission and sells beautiful paintings click here. For the first MJoTAtalks episode, in which Mr Amachi describes his painting about Biafra, click here.
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Mrs Contance Chisom Orji sings Christian songs, in church and everywhere. Her home church is St Kieran's, click here, so I have heard her sing like an angle a lot. To listen to Chisom sing and see pictures I have taken click here.
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High Chief Malachy Orji has a full-service, Pennsylvania-state compliant auto repair and auto inspection shop. Click here.
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Aces Museum was
opened as a tribute to troops when the United States of America
absurdly had 2 sets of armed forces, one for self-designated sons and
daughters of Africa, and one for everyone else (we all came from Africa
originally). Aces Museum is in Germantown and run by Dr Althea Henkens,
who is an internist trained at Michigan School of Medicine, click here.
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African American Museum in Philadelphia, I have been a member since 2008. Lovely spaces over 4 floors, constantly changing art exhibits, frequent events free to everyone or free to members, click here.
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Wharton Small
Business Development Center is not an African business, but they work
with African businesses and have a keen interest in businesses
succeeding in African communities inside the continent of Africa and
outside Africa. For a story on when the Philadelphia Mayor's Commission
on African and Caribbean Affairs visited the Center, click here.
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Non-profit community organizations
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Africom Philly is the name we call ourselves at the Coalition of African Communities in Philadelphia. This is a group of strong, hard-working professionals who are part of African communities all over Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, click here for their portal to several pages on this site.
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Sickle Cell Disease can shorten lives to childhood, it can also be lived with for a long time. The Rev Zemoria Brandon was the wife of a Christian minister who lived to middle age with sickle cell disease, and started a non-profit to give resources to those with sickle celll disease and those who are like her who have or had relatives living with the disease, click here.
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The Welcoming Center welcomes migrants from African and Caribbean countries to Philadelphia. Also migrants from other countries, but most migrants moving to Philadelphia are from Africa and the Caribbean, click here.
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St Kieran's Roman Catholic Church holds a mass every Sunday at 1pm in Igbo. I love it. The choir is a treat to listen to, and the Igbo priests: I feel like I am in Heaven when I am there click here.
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Dr Samuel Quartey is a chemist trained at Kwame Nkrumah University in Ghana, a podiatrist trained in Philadelphia and an educator who is the Chairman of the Board of the Imohotep Charter School in Philadelphia. More about Dr Quartey, click here.
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The African Cultural Center in Philadelphia click here
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