Ghana Mourns Rawlings
Ghana’s former President John Jerry Rawlings died on November 12, 2020. He was 73.
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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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November, 2020
Triumph of Democracy over Demagoguery
UCHENNA EKWO American people poured out to the streets in their millions across major cities on Saturday to greet the outcome of the historic 2020 presidential election. The same outpouring of excitement occurred in major world capitals in London, Paris, Abuja, and Berlin etc. In a tweet, the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo exclaimed: “Welcome […]
Nov 13 2020 | Posted in Features | Read More »
Muslim and Arab voters may have secured Biden’s Michigan win
ROWAIDA ABDELAZIZ Arab and Muslim communities likely substantially contributed to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s victory in Michigan, according to local activists and organizers. Emgage Action, a Muslim civic advocacy organization that endorsed Biden, said that approximately 81,000 Muslim Americans cast early and absentee votes in the state. (The exact number of votes cast by […]
Nov 13 2020 | Posted in Community News | Read More »
In Egypt the mummies return. But will tourists in a pandemic?
TOM PAGE Saqqara, a dusty necropolis south of Cairo, has become instrumental in Egypt’s fightback against a tourist slump. It’s been an extraordinary year for archaeological discoveries at the UNESCO World Heritage Site, where separate finds have unearthed scores of sarcophagi and a host of artifacts, including an obelisk and a unique, bejeweled statue of […]
Nov 13 2020 | Posted in African News | Read More »
Breast Cancer Is Killing Black Women at Alarming Rates
The Tigerlily Foundation, an advocacy organization supporting young women diagnosed with breast cancer, wants to help close the racial disparities in diagnosis and treatment. PAMELA APPEA Maimah Karmo was diagnosed with Stage II breast cancer when she was 32. Before that she thought she’d achieved the picture-perfect American dream: An African immigrant who fled war-torn […]
Nov 13 2020 | Posted in Community News | Read More »
Africa seeks to make sense of chaotic US election
CHRISPIN MWAKIDEU US Democratic candidate Joe Biden has secured enough votes to become the next US leader. President Donald Trump has alleged fraud. And Africans are watching events with a mixture of bemusement and concern. Like the rest of the world, Africa has been paying close attention to the US election, since the United States […]
Nov 13 2020 | Posted in African News | Read More »
Ancient People
Historically, present-day Sudan is part of the region of Kush (a kingdom in Upper Nubia), a crossroads between Egypt and other parts of Black Africa in the Hebrew Scriptures. Ancient Egyptians knew it as Kush, the Greeks as Ethiopia (the Greeks, including the fifth-century historian Herodotus, referred to all of the lands between the southern […]
Nov 13 2020 | Posted in Artcultainment | Read More »
Amandla endorses Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as Ghana’s President on December 7
Ghana goes to the polls on December 7, 2020 to elect a President and Members of Parliament for the next four years. The polls on the presidency is historic, because it’s the first time a sitting president and an immediate past president are vying for the highest political position in the country. Both have vast […]
Nov 13 2020 | Posted in Editorial | Read More »
The plight of the Shona in Kenya who are demanding recognition after decades of statelessness
AMA NUNOO In the 1960s, about 100 Shona missionaries arrived in Kenya from Zimbabwe and Zambia to establish the Gospel of God Church. The move was accepted and welcomed by Kenya’s first president, Jomo Kenyatta, but his successors have not done much to integrate the Shona. The descendants of these missionaries are stateless in Kenya. […]
Nov 13 2020 | Posted in top stories | Read More »
Malawi to become the first African country in decades to open an embassy in Jerusalem
ABU MUBARIK Malawi says it will open an embassy in Jerusalem, the controversial capital of Israel, in the summer of 2021. This was made known by the country’s foreign minister, Eisenhower Mkaka, who is on a three-day trip to the Jewish state. “Mkaka reiterated the intent of the Republic of Malawi to open a fully-fledged […]
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