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."
Experts believe Seqenenre Tao II was killed after being captured on battlefield 3,600 years ago A hi-tech study has offered new clues about the killing of a pharaoh who ruled Egypt 3,600 years ago, according to the country’s antiquities ministry. Seqenenre Tao II, “The Brave”, who reigned over southern Egypt, famously led troops against the […]
CHRISTOPHE KOFFI Cashews are big business in Ivory Coast, the world’s leading producer, and the country is waging an intensifying campaign to stop smuggling of the nut known there as “grey gold”. The West African nation has strengthened its laws to punish those caught sneaking the nuts over its borders and is trying to make […]
Morocco, a country where large volumes of cannabis are grown illicitly, is considering legalizing production for therapeutic use of the drug, the government said Thursday, February 25, 2021. The government has “begun to study a legislative bill relating to the legal use of cannabis,” it said in a statement. The draft text, seen by AFP, […]
Military Service In 1777, the Continental Congress asked New Jersey to come up with four regiments with a total of close to three thousand men. This was General Maxwell’s Brigade, a major force of General George Washington’s army. Cudjo was a Newark slave who fought on behalf of his master, Benjamin Coe during the Revolutionary […]
FREDDIE W. MENZ Multiple award-winning singer, songwriter and producer Stevie Wonder has announced his big decision to move to Ghana permanently. The Los Angeles resident made this announcement during an interview with Oprah Winfrey on her show “The Oprah Conversation” on Apple TV+. Mr Wonder, born Stevland Hardaway Judkins, has visited the country on numerous […]
New research published in Nature Food warns that heat stress in animals caused by rising temperatures and humidity will occur more frequently and for longer periods, impacting milk and meat productivity for dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep, goat, pigs and poultry across East Africa. Analysis of historical data from 1981-2010 shows that livestock have already […]
At her vetting by the Appointments Committee in Parliament recently the Minister-designate for Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Hon. Mavis Hawa Koomson, was alleged to have expressed herself in Ghana’s official language, English, below par. And as usual politics checked in, and the general consensus would hang the poor woman. Incidentally she is the person who […]
Ghana has become the first recipient of COVID-19 vaccine doses distributed by COVAX. Ghana took delivery of 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India. Key government and health officials as well as diplomats were at the Kotoka International Airport to receive the vaccines. A plane carrying 600,000 doses of […]
ARNIE SEIPEL Valentine’s Day is a time to celebrate romance and love and kissy-face fealty. But the origins of this festival of candy and cupids are actually dark, bloody — and a bit muddled. Though no one has pinpointed the exact origin of the holiday, one good place to start is ancient Rome, where men […]
Continuing our series on the book: Jack Cudjo. Newark’s Revolutionary Soldier & 1st Black Businessman Slavery in the Gold Coast was not effectively abolished until after the British‐Asante War of 1874. Historians of African slavery usually glossed over a minor yet important practice of slavery. There were instances that stubborn members of family, royals inclusive, […]