Founded in 2003 by a seasoned journalist Ike Mgbatogu, Onumba.com grew out of a ferocious passion for writing stories, focusing primarily on  Africa and his community of Central Ohio, USA. That passion soon fueled the enthusiasm to research and write about black issues, black excellence, black frustration, and the challenges facing African countries.  We would love to see African countries crawl out of their depressing stagnation and impoverishment and into a bright new day of economic growth, prosperity and fulfillment.

“We can do much better than this.” Ike Mgbatogu

The Nigerian-born, U.S. educated journalist wanted a website site able to offer meaningful contents, penetrating analysis of the news, fresh and insightful commentaries on events impacting Nigerians in particular and Black people as a whole, a website able to leverage social media technology as a conduit for informing Nigerians at home and abroad of topical social, economic and political events.

Before establishing his own media firm, Ike Mgbatogu anchored the Columbus office of The Call & Post newspaper responsible for eclectic beats spanning politics, the immigrant community, the African-American community, education, government, and technology, traversing Ohio’s largest cities of Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati.

Our mission is to educate, inform and empower Africans through the delivery of useful news, commentaries and video interviews of newsmakers from the Africa, the United States and around the world.

Onumba.com is published by its parent company Fawol Africa Media (FAM) and based in the United States and Nigeria.

Fawol is an acronym for ‘From All Walks of Life,” coined to convey our dyed-in-the-wool commitment to progress for all Africans regardless of ethnicity, religion and region. We will always project an unwavering posture of pan-Africanism in the tradition of legendary icons such as Kwame Nkrumah, W.E.B. DuBois, Thomas Isidore Sankara, Malcolm X and Fela Kuti.

Onumba in Igbo language of Nigeria means the ‘the voice of the people’ or ‘the voice of the nation.’
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Onumba photos of Ike Mgbatogu interviewing politicians, business leaders, community leaders and other newsmakers.