More recently, MTV’s Joey Parker got in touch with Apple over its overwhelmingly white (and bright yellow) emoji set and the company responded that it was working on it. But now a division of African ...

When emoji first began populating Japanese cellphone screens in 1999, modern communication was forever changed. The digital image bank, created by Japanese artist Shigetaka Kurita to convey lengthy ...

Alpesh Patel released the first-ever set of black emoticons last year. He says Apple still has a long way to go. Alpesh Patel, the CEO of African-based emoji company Oju Africa, thinks Apple missed ...

There are also everyday objects: cans of soda, cubes of bouillon (a key ingredient in many African dishes) and popular types of chips and candy. Some of his favorite designs are a series of facial ...

As of now, Apple's iPhone features only two cartoon emoji that represent non-white people: One is a vaguely Asian-looking man, the other a man with a turban: Apple knows this is a problem. Just last ...

O'Plerou Grebet is a 22-year-old graphic design student in Ivory Coast. Everywhere he looks, he sees signs of Western influence — from the glass skyscrapers and malls lining the streets in his home ...

Alpesh Patel, the CEO of African-based emoji company Oju Africa, thinks Apple missed the mark with its new set of iPhone emoji options, which offers more skin-tone options than before. "Look at their ...