Contact:
wireless: 832-45-CHIDO (24436)
office: 713-270-5500

E-mail:
ClassPhotos@Gmail.com
Chido247@Gmail.com

8303 Southwest Freeway, Suite 100, Houston, Texas 77074

DIGITAL ZONE
PhotoWorks.TV is the images and events mega-site for the award-winning Houston-based international CLASS magazine. CLASS is published 6x a year, beginning January-February -plus special editions. CLASS has an average of 64 graphically compelling pages in full color, and printed on ultra-gloss paper. The flagship of American journalism, Times, recently cited CLASS as a part of USAfrica, which it assessed as the most influential and largest African-owned multimedia company in the United States of America.


CLASS, THE NAME SAYS IT ALL....
IN unique pictorial and prosaic forms, CLASS is the gold-standard for special events, profiles, new technologies and financial tips, news features and publishing for Africans across the United States of America and the Diaspora.
CLASSmagazine and its multimedia images site, PhotoWorks.TV are designed and delivered with bold editorial strokes, enchanting photography, unique layout and lyrical styles, colorful events, ethnic authenticity with a global background.

The flagship of American media, The New York Times of September 23, 2003, notes CLASS is the magazine for successful Africans in America.
The New York Times' reporter Simon Romero wrote that Chido "Nwangwu recently created a magazine called CLASS for affluent Africans in the United States." To be sure, it's not only for the affluent but the willing and deserving.

LEVERAGE
CLASSmagazine (established May 2003) and PhotoWorks.TV offer our communities and continents The Authoritative Link to the largest, contemporary, original and decent images of Africans and Americans, chronicle of our achievements and special events on the professional, leading edge multimedia platforms of print, online and broadcast.
We enjoy the readership and patronage of thousands of African-Americans and other communities in the world who are connected to their heritage through the networks of USAfrica, CLASS and PhotoWorks.TV


LEADERSHIP
CLASSmagazine and PhotoWorks.TV are led by the leading African and American multimedia executives, news and issues analysts, trend leaders and photography/videography staffers. They are powered, largely, by the award-winning resources of USAfrica and USAfricaonline.com


USAfrica was founded and established since 1992 and CLASS in 2003 by Chido Nwangwu, recipient of the Journalism Excellence award (1997), founder of the first African-owned U.S.-based professional newspaper published on the internet, USAfricaonline.com, USAfrica The Newspaper, and The Black Business Journal. USAfrica.TV


He appears as an analyst on CNN International and CNN's Inside Africa, VOA, NPR, CBS News, NBC and ABCnews affiliates, South Africa Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) etc. He served as a member of the editorial board of the Daily Times of Nigeria, worked as news, production and programming staff at the Nigerian Television Authority and as an analyst for CNN International and CNN's Inside Africa. Chido Nwangwu, new technologies investor and oil and gas consultant, served as an adviser to the former Mayor of Houston (Lee Brown) on international business (Africa).

He has covered and traveled with former U.S. President Bill Clinton to different parts of the African continent, and authored the special report he called Clinton's Africa. He is writing a book on recent African Immigrants to America.
www.USAfricaonlinecom/chido.html



FOCUS
CLASSmagazine, USAfrica and PhotoWorks.TV audience and readership are target-specific: the rapidly growing African immigrant populations across America and the Diaspora.


DEMOGRAPHICS
We provide a professional platform for our special features and competitive pricing for our advertisers and clients to reach our primary demographics being the almost 2 million African professional class and families, primarily across the U.S., and the north American continent.

The age brackets of 16-65 are the most active group of our readership. The female gender make up almost 60% of our readership. For your interest in advertising or publishing special event features, call 832-45-CHIDO (24436) and 713-270-5500. E-mail: Class@Classmagazine.TV and ClassAmerica@Gmail.com


OUR MISSION, OUR STYLE
CLASSmagazine, USAfrica and our mega-site www.PhotoWorks.TV
By Chido Nwangwu

CLASS has its own unique personality hence the dominant mainstream took immediate, additional notice. Yet, in a sense, CLASS is the Africans-in-America's own Ebony and People and GQ - all rolled into one unique product: an ultra-glossy magazine of African style, music, living, fashion and our younger generation interests. I call the latter group 'generation Class.' They love those pages!


Among the reasons for which I established CLASS is for it to serve as the professional vehicle to showcase tasteful social elegance, chronicles of individual achievements, stylish teenagers, men and women, poetry, celebrations, spectacular community events, and cultural heritage pageants involving Africans and Americans.


This ultra-glossy magazine captures the colorful tapestry and profiles of the newgeneration of Africans in the U.S.A., Canada, Caribbeans, and events in Africa. For example, our special feature of the beloved titan Nelson Mandela's birthday which held inside South Africa.

We capture the thrills and battles of life and success -and where necessary failings and setbacks. Our cameras and photogs will captureall the key celebrations - in ways and angles that are uniquely those of CLASS.


You recall the statement that a picture tells a thousand stories. Sure; but we'll do even better. We'll rather say a good picture!

Why?
CLASS will continue to have a major share of pictorial coverage but it is not a photo-album. I love to paint word pictures, too. Word pictures and excellent photography will be on our pages likebees unto honey!


Shortly after The New York Times' mention, a flood of calls from different regions of the U.S., and internationally followed. We got more subscription requests. Again, we thank all of you for your support and kind words of encouragement - coast-to-coast!

The New York Times went further to note that the major business which I also serve as Founder & Publisher, USAfrica, is America's largest African-owned multimedia networks. It was establishedin 1992. We also publish the award-winning first-African owned newspaper on the Internet,http://USAfricaonline.com

We thank God for His infinite graces.

USAfricaCLASS magazine, aka CLASS, reflects the professional quests,stylistic expressions of men and women of African and African-American descent. CLASS profiles excellence, serves as the social barometer of elegance and style for our communities.


CLASS will remain classy, among other things, becauseit is the professional standard, international platform and community network for accurately and with good taste, telling the stories of ourpeople in all spheres of social and professional quests; from those who seek to be part of Hollywood to those who rose from throwing newspapers in New York's suburbs, New Orleans' inner city or west Houston to paying their way through school and achieving financial and academic success. Shall we say, therefore, you're either in CLASS, or…


USAfrica and CLASS led the way by going where no other magazine has gone: bringing together the social events, news features, and stylistic uniqueness of Africans and Americans on one professional platform. We go direct to the stars of Hollywood not just to publish their pictures but to get their views on current, social and heritage matters of interest and value to many of our readers.


In the first edition of CLASS magazine's Hollywood exclusive, we present my chat with NBA legend and business exec Earvin' Magic' Johnson (on page 40) of our May 2003 premiere edition. If any 20th century Black man embodies style with a lot of flair and savoire faire, Magic's got it! He has a very humble and fraternal attitude, too.


We enjoyed chatting about matters of corporate style, empowerment issues, his forays and successes as a businessman, how to network, managing your small business and what to wear to make the best impact in business.
I was accompanied by my outstanding executive assistant Vivian Okeke and bossom friend attorney Awa 'Papoose' Kalu (now a Senior Advocate of Nigeria).


CLASS captures the unfolding distinctions and dynamism of the new generation of Africans born abroad. CLASS will feature Africans in theU.S to record for posterity the rhythm and rhyme of events and trends across our communities and our two continents.


We believe the increasing social and artistic expressions of our folks should be captured and written with a professional flair and clarity. We've the biggest, most accomplished and seasoned network of professional reporters and editors serving Africans and Americans.


ABOVE ALL, to God be the glory, and we pray for His continued blessings and guidance as we embark on this enterprise with very limited resources.
On our part, we'll do our very best, again - and set new standards. We started with 40 pages for our first edition on Friday May 9, 2003, and by our 4th edition we surpassed 100 pages, and made 114 pages of ultra-glossy color. It was a prayer answered.