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."
A SURVIVOR hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram firebomb huts and heard the screams of children burning to death, among 86 people officials say died in the latest attack by Nigeria’s homegrown Islamic extremists. Scores of charred corpses and bodies with bullet wounds littered the streets from Saturday night’s attack on Dalori […]
by Kwabena Opong Unexpected it was that even as Ghanaians were gloating over a manifold increase in petroleum prices they were informed that their country would play host to some unwelcome guests from Africa and Guantanamo Bay. The word Guantanamo, not so familiar in Ghanaian lexicon has suddenly become a household word. Two men, namely […]
By: Dr. Peter Ikre The month of January is unique in many ways. Aside from ushering a new year, it epitomizes the period when taxpayers reconcile their accounts with Uncle Sam via the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The 2016 tax season began in earnest a few weeks ago (01/19/2016 to be precise). In light of […]
Written by Malaria Consortium Malaria was the cause of over 430,000 deaths last year, despite good progress in recent years and in sub-Saharan Africa a child dies every minute from the disease. Pneumonia is the single biggest killer of children worldwide, accounting for nearly a million deaths in 2015. Combined with diarrhoea and acute malnutrition, […]
February 6, 2016 IN a sign of mounting global concern over the Zika virus, health officials have warned pregnant women to think twice about the lips they kiss and called on men to use condoms with pregnant partners if they have visited countries where the virus is present. UN officials also called on many Catholic-majority […]
Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad The early abolition movement in North America was fueled both by slaves’ efforts to liberate themselves and by groups of white settlers, such as the Quakers, who opposed slavery on religious or moral grounds. Though the lofty ideals of the Revolutionary era invigorated the movement, by the late 1780s it […]
by Kofi Ayim African Town, located four miles north of Mobile, was once known for its vessel building by the Meaher brothers. It also became an abode for the last known African slaves from Western Africa. The Meaher brothers partnered with a Captain Bill Foster in the lucrative slave trading business. Captain Foster gathered some […]
by Kofi Ayim The Director of the Center for Global Education at Drew University Stacy Fischer has charged students to get beyond awesome and connect their newly acquired experiences to their environments. Ms. Fischer threw this challenge in a “Welcome Back” ceremony to about forty six students and four faculty staff that travelled to Cuba […]
By Zaira Cortés Large-scale raids initiated by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the beginning of the year created uncertainty and fear in New York and generated false reports of arrests in Hispanic neighborhoods. A month after the agency began its operations, none have been carried out in the Big Apple. However, a citizen […]
Ghanaians woke up early January 2016 to the shock and surprise of their lives: the government announced that it had brought in two former detainees of Guantanamo Bay as its guests for the next two years. The arrangements and agreements between Ghana and the US were shrouded in secrecy in much the same way the […]