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."
Numerous startups are creating synthetic palm oil in the lab, hoping to slow the loss of tropical forests to oil palm cultivation. But palm oil is the most widely used vegetable oil, and producing a synthetic version on a large scale remains a daunting challenge. JAMES DINNEEN Tom Jeffries and Tom Kelleher met at Rutgers […]
Thousands of miles away from the war in Ethiopia, the ethnic cracks have started to show in an Ethiopian church in Ohio, in a lawsuit between trustees and clergy. The original trustees of the Holy Trinity Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Columbus have accused its clergy of switching the language of services from Amharic, the […]
AS the continental men’s Africa Cup of Nations – a 65-year-old biannual event first held in Khartoum in 1957 – got underway, many eyes were firmly fixed on one stand-out referee, Mukansanga Salma. Mukansanga is the first-ever woman to officiate in the games and is one of 24 centre referees among the 63 official umpiring […]
ALEXANDER WINNING Africa’s top public health bodies on Thursday January 20, called for donated COVID-19 vaccines to come with a shelf life of three to six months so countries could plan their rollouts and avoid a situation where doses expire. Africa’s top public health bodies on Thursday called for donated COVID-19 vaccines to come with […]
ROBERT MISIGARO Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye has demonstrated his skills as a drummer by playing the country’s famous royal drums during a visit to a drum sanctuary on the outskirts of the capital Gitega. Burundi’s State House tweeted that the president had been an avid drummer from a young age, and he could not resist […]
Head of the continent’s disease control center says doctors and nurses are needed to bolster the local pandemic response. During the pandemic, the UK and other rich nations have relied on African doctors and nurses to shore up their health services. Now the continent’s chief health leader is hoping to put the brain drain into […]
ABDULKAREEM MOJEED The continent’s 18 billionaires are now worth an estimated $84.9 billion. Africa’s billionaires became richer in 2021 despite the devastating impacts of the global pandemic on businesses around the world, a new report by Forbes has revealed. The continent’s 18 billionaires are now worth an estimated $84.9 billion, which implies a 15 per […]
KOFI AYIM The workforce in the U.S. food supply chain – from processing plants to supermarket shelves – is under a pressing constraint owing to the impact of Covid-19’s and its various variants. The Wall Street Journal reports that one in 10 processing plant and distribution workers at a major produce company were recently out […]
[The book] is a gold mine of facts about the kolanut, its myths and realities. It would be difficult to overstate the influence this book will have on those who seek to understand the custom and especially the doxology of correctly consecrating the kolanut and the dos and don’ts.”~ Oseloka H. Obaze REVIEWED BY AKUNNA […]
AKOSUA OFORIWAA-AYIM In 2019, the world witnessed Ghana’s Year of Return. The highly talked about and successful experience highlighted the “return” of Diasporans from around the world to their Motherland. But there is a very important and growing group of people that must be acknowledged – those who have already returned to Ghana. Over the […]