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."
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Dr. Ben Carson probably should know this better than anyone else. There comes a time when a doctor has to look their patient straight in the eye and tell them the truth about their prognosis if it shows they’re not going to make it. Perhaps it’s time for Dr. Ben Carson, the neurosurgeon to look […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo pleaded not guilty Thursday to four counts of crimes against humanity at the start of his trial at the International Criminal Court. Gbagbo is the first ex-head of state to go on trial at the ICC. He is accused together with a former youth minister, […]
by Yinka Ibukun Loni Prinsloo Emirates Telecommunications Group Co is suing Nigeria competitor MTN Group Ltd. over plans by Africa’s biggest wireless company to buy local Internet provider Visafone Communications Ltd. The lawsuit centers on MTN’s potential use of Visafone’s 800 megahertz of spectrum, Abu Dhabi-based Etisalat’s Nigeria unit said in an e-mailed statement on […]
There are no computers, TVs or smartphones in many schools in rural Ghana. In the classroom, teachers talk while students listen. There’s very little engagement and virtually no interaction, because many teachers themselves were not formally trained. The private, nonprofit Varkey Foundation — together with co-donor Dubai Cares and the Ghanaian Ministry of Education — […]
French insurance giant AXA announced today it is investing €75-million to take a 8% stake in Africa Internet Group (AIG), one of the continent’s largest e-commerce operations. Jumia is AIG’s main subsidiary and operates in 11 African markets. Transactions grew 265% during the first nine months of 2015 to reach €206-million, AIG said. AXA will […]
by Anna Hirtenstein More than a quarter of the African nations south of the Sahara Desert have presidential elections this year, and renewable energy developers could stand to benefit. The region has the world’s biggest concentration of people — more than 620 million according to the International Energy Agency– living without reliable electricity supplies. From […]
Opening Feb. 3, the “Bronx:Africa” exhibition will showcase artistic interpretations of the African continent with a Bronx angle. The show features the works of 25 artists and will be located at the Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos Community College. Curator LeRonn P. Brooks, a faculty member at Lehman College and a curator at the Bronx […]
Book Review Kwabena Opong, editor-in-chief of Amandla, takes a critical look at the well-received book… If you are an Akan from Ghana you must know there is more to your being as an Akan than you see yourself. Your antecedents are probably from the upper Nile Valley, specifically from Egypt or Nubia, and as your […]
by Lawrence Freeman African leaders at the 26th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union held at the end of January in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia dealt the International Criminal Court-(ICC) another blow. Although the AU’s attack on the ICC was not fatal (yet), it demonstrated an increased scrutiny of the ICC’s racist and […]