Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey "Only the best is good enough for Africa."
Kwame Nkrumah "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."
By Kofi Ayim Mr. Dosso Kassimou, Chair of the African Commission, City of Newark is running for Councilman-at-Large. The affable and conspicuous community leader known in the corridors of Newark’s City Hall is the first African immigrant in recent history in Newark to contest a City Hall position. Mr. Kassimou said he wants to help […]
Story and Photos by E. Obiri Addo “Africa always springs surprises” (Ex Africa simper Aliquid novi), so wrote the Roman historian Pliny the Elder. But these surprises seem to be almost always negative. The challenge to Africans now is to create `positive surprises’” Commander Justice Aduhene-Benieh of the Ghana Police made this observation during a […]
By Kwabena Opong Odupon Atutu; the great Iroko tree has fallen. The Akans of Ghana and the Igbo of Nigeria liken great personalities to great trees. Great trees like Odum or Iroko are hard wood with strong roots; they grow to great heights and stand proudly greeting the sky every day of their existence. Neither […]
Africa woke up on December 6, 2013, to the grim but not un expected news of the death of Nelson Mandela, the black South African leader who showed the world of bigots that a man and a black man for that matter is capable of humanity and humility at the same time even in the […]
By Kofi Ayim, Mampong Akwapim, Ghana About thirty five New York University (NYU) students on an exchange program in Ghana, indubitably fell in love with Ananse Village, a 3-acre farmland tucked 35 miles away from Accra. Ananse, is the Akan name for Spider, a notorious wiseacre creature in Akan mythology. The Ananse Village, carved out […]
By Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Ten years ago this month, Liberia began its journey from peace to recovery. The peace accords signed in Ghana ended the second of two devastating civil wars, leaving more than a quarter of a million dead, my country’s infrastructure destroyed and the lives of exhausted survivors shattered. The task before us […]
A BLOG BY CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO AROUND noon on Saturday September 21, a group of terrorists believed to number 10 to 18 stormed the Westgate Mall in western Nairobi. By the third day, 69 had been killed during the attack, or died later in hospital. Another 175 had been injured. Today the crisis entered its fourth […]
By Lou Del Bello A malaria vaccine based on genetically modified parasites is worth developing further, according to the first study to test the new approach in humans. Six volunteers were exposed to the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, rendered harmless by genetic modification, through the bite of Anopheles mosquitoes. All six developed antibodies against the […]
Alhaji Chireh Ibrahim Adams, chief of the Busanga community in New Jersey was formally introduced to the Newark Municipal Council at the City Hall September 18, 2013. Chireh Ibrahim Adams who is also a member of the African Commission of the City of Newark is credited with the renaming of Victoria Street to Ghanaian Way. […]
A recent report appearing on allAfrica.com indicates that in spite of the seeming economic growth in Africa, people on the continent continue to be at the bottom of the global economic ladder (“Africa isn’t Rising”, allAfrica.com, 10/2/2013). A survey directed by Afrobarometer in a project coordinated by independent institutions in Ghana, Kenya, Benin and South […]