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."
JAMES KAMALA MORE than 800 youths in Dar es Salaam and Coast regions have been equipped with skills of turning garbage into charcoal and other products used for human consumption. The initiatives aim at safeguarding the environment and combating Climate change and its effects while promoting economic activities. Sauti ya Jamii Kipunguni Executive Director, Mr […]
Religious police in northern Nigeria’s city of Kano have destroyed nearly four million bottles of beer, on grounds that sale and consumption of alcohol is prohibited in the predominantly Muslim region. Sharia police called Hisbah often destroy alcohol and confiscated drugs, but the huge beer haul was one of the largest in a recently intensified […]
YESHIEL PANCHIA A Cape Town-based biotech startup has become the first African company to produce an mRNA vaccine on the continent, paving the way for the future of locally-manufactured vaccines. South African scientists of a local biotechnology company have achieved a breakthrough, making an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine using publicly available Moderna data, the first time […]
KOFI AYIM The West Africa countries of Ghana and Nigeria have several things in common, yet the rivalry between them is akin to the biblical Esau and Jacob. Ghana and Nigeria are the twin countries in Africa that each love to loathe when it comes to competition. Both countries were colonized by the British. They […]
For decades, elections have hardly made a difference in curbing violent plunder by Kenya’s ruling class. PATRICK GATHARA With just six months to go till Kenya’s general elections, preparations are in full swing. But the Kenyan authorities seem to be struggling at least in one area: voter registration. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) […]
MILDRED EUROPA TAYLOR The Tuckers of Virginia, descendants of the first enslaved Africans to come to North America, recently traveled to Angola, the birthplace of their ancestors. The Tuckers are believed to be descendants of two of the first enslaved Africans to land in English North America at Point Comfort in 1619, which is currently […]
NURITH AIZENMAN When the results of his study came in, Kondwani Jambo was stunned. He’s an immunologist in Malawi. And last year he had set out to determine just how many people in his country had been infected with the coronavirus since the pandemic began. Jambo, who works for the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Program, knew the […]
VICTORIA AMUNGA Hing Pal Singh is among dozens of patients with daily appointments at the Oriental Chinese Herbal Clinic in Nairobi. Singh, 85, has been suffering from spinal problems for five years and is now trying herbal remedies. “There is a slight difference,” Singh said. ” … It’s only a week now. It will take […]