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."
EKOW DONTOH Ghana is in talks with lenders for $300 million in loans to support the country’s loss-making cocoa regulator. Ghana Cocoa Board, which oversees sales and purchases in the world’s second-biggest grower of the chocolate-ingredient, needs 1.1 billion cedis ($223 million) to meet its commitments for the annual season through September, according to a […]
MEL FRYKBERG An expensive overseas trip by Zambian first lady Esther Lungu to collect four fire trucks donated by the Los Angeles City Fire Department has stirred a hornet’s nest back home. In January, the first lady travelled to the US, in what has been described as a collaboration between Zambia’s Fire and Rescue Service […]
AANU ADEOYE An online petition is calling on Uganda’s Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities to scrap its plans for a “Miss Curvy Uganda” beauty pageant. The petition comes in the wake of comments made by Uganda’s State Minister for Tourism, Godfrey Kiwanda, at the pageant’s launch event in Kampala on Tuesday, when he said […]
ABDI LATIF DAHIR A recent ruling by a three-judge court in the Netherlands has struck down a 2003 patent led by Dutchman Jans Roosjen as the inventor of teff flour, used in making such Ethiopian staples as injera flatbread. Teff is a grain variety so old that its original cultivation date is lost to history […]
The Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, Luigi Di Maio, has left little doubt on what he feels is the primary cause of African migrant crisis that Europe is faced with. Di Maio called upon the European Union to sanction countries such as France that the prime minister feels is manipulating the economies of 14 African […]
Gordon Lloyd Chavunduka was a Zimbabwean Politician who played a role in the fight for the country’s independence. Aside from his involvement in politics, the very versatile Dr Chavunduka was also a traditional healer, sociologist, author and academic who contributed to each of these sectors in huge ways. Dr Gordon Lloyd Chavunduka was born on August 16, […]
In Africa, many of the male freedom fighters are well known and celebrated while their female counterparts are usually forgotten and relegated to the background. From the likes of Kenya’s Muthoni wa Kirima, Zimbabwe’s Sheba Tavarwisa, South Africa’s Albertina Sisulu, and Nigeria’s Funmilayo Ransome-Kutithese, these women were very instrumental in the fight for the liberation of […]
Amandla is posting this story as a part of our Black History Month series: Remembering Our Heroes & Sheroes. Dr. Gladys West, a mathematician and one of the so-called “Hidden Figures” who was lesser known for her contributions to inventing GPS, has been inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame. A ceremony was held in West’s honor at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, a local CBS affiliate reported on Tuesday. […]
by KOFI AYIM A 20-person delegation of health professionals under the auspices of the Ghana Association for Medical Aid (GAMA) embarked on a one-week goodwill mission to Ghana from January 19 to January 26, 2019. Led by Dr. Andrew Baddoo, a New Jersey–based nephrologist, the non-profit organization screened and treated about 260 orphans at the […]
DR RAPHAEL ERNEST GRAIL ARMATTOE: GHANAIAN AND CELEBRATED AFRICAN MEDICAL PRACTITIONER WHO WAS ONE-TIME NOMINEE FOR NOBLE PEACE PRIZE NOMINEE FOR MEDICINE AND PHYSIOLOGY Raphael Ernest Grail Armattoe (12 August 1913 – 22 December 1953) was a man of many talents – a renowned medical doctor, anthropologist, writer of prose and poetry, one-time Nobel Prize […]