After six years, Africana.com will be shutting down at the end of the month. The website, the brainchild of Skip Gates, will be merging with AOL Blackvoices.
At first blush it seems a little sad. I remember first getting my email account with Africana and how proud I was to have the words “Africana” in my email address. I was a little more dismayed when they stop offering the service for free and that “africana” could no longer be in my email address. However, many things now, including cultural, can be co-opted for corporate gain.
Will I go to AOL BlackVoices? Maybe. But I have always missed sending emails from AFRICANA.com
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