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."
IAN BRENNAN There is a sad irony in writing an obituary for a man who spent his adult life as a funeral singer. For decades, Mbabila “Small” Batoh led his trio, fra fra, in providing funeral music throughout rural northern Ghana. “Small,” as he was widely known, played a homemade kologo (a 2-string lute)— with […]
CARA ANNA Safia Ibrahim’s business was in trouble. COVID-19 had taken hold in Somaliland, in the Horn of Africa. The 50-year-old widow with 10 children to support set out door to door on the capital’s outskirts, a razor at hand, taking advantage of the lockdown to seek work with a question: Have your daughters been […]
MILDRED EUROPA TAYLOR A man from the Democratic Republic of the Congo identified simply as Luwizo has tied the knot with triplets in a colorful ceremony. The 32-year-old got married to triplets, Nadege, Natacha, and Nathalie, in the ceremony held last month in Karehe, located in South Kivu, DR Congo. In an interview with Afrimax […]
CHRISPIN MWAKIDEU Nigeria, Senegal and Algeria have criticized Ukraine’s efforts to enlist international fighters as it resists a Russian invasion. Analysts say those who have responded to the call need to reconsider. Russia’s war on Ukraine is barely two weeks old but Kyiv is already attracting potential foreign fighters from as far away as Kenya. […]
VINCENT KEJITAN The Atheists in Kenya Society has written to Education CS Prof George Magoha asking him to ban forced prayers in schools. The Society stated that it had received several complaints from students in Kenyan schools who had been forced to attend church services on Sundays. “Most Kenyans have gone through a public education […]
The Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley, has called on Africans and the Caribbean to bridge their artificial barriers and collaborate to boost trade and investment. “This is the way to give a strong boost to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCTA) to resolve the myriad of debilitating socio-economic, ecological and political challenges […]
The talk of the town now among the opposition and critics of the ruling government is a military coup d’état to mitigate the hard times in Ghana. And Amandla says it is a shortsighted and unwise perception for a country that has had more than a dozen forcible changes of government in its 65 years […]