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."
Tragic news continues to emerge today, Tuesday, March 28, after a boat capsized off the coast of St. Kitts, leaving one person dead, while 15 others were rescued from the choppy waters. Fourteen of these 16 persons are Africans. Reports say the St. Kitts Coast Guard is now engaged in a desperate search for the […]
For proof, we can look to the many matrilineal societies dotted all over the world. In some regions, these traditions may date back thousands of years. ANGELA SAINI The philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah once asked why some people feel the need to believe in a more equal past to picture a more equal future. Many […]
PHILLIP W. MAGNESS & DAVID R. HENDERSON The reparations movement has gained tremendous ground in recent years by offering promises of compensation to the descendants of slavery’s victims in the United States. The proposal forms the centerpiece of the New York Times 1619 Project, which is now a multi-million-dollar docuseries on the Hulu streaming service. […]
The U.S. is reprising its playbook in Ukraine, where it has used classified information to expose plans by Russia. Next target: Chad. DECLAN WALSH The United States recently warned Chad’s president that Russian mercenaries were plotting to kill him and three senior aides and that Moscow was backing Chadian rebels massing in the neighboring Central […]
Xue Bing, Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Affairs of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Tuesday March 14, refuted the groundless cliche that China is creating a “debt trap” in Africa, calling it a narrative trap instead. Addressing media here in the Ethiopian capital, the special envoy said Africa’s debt burdens should […]
Are its citizens’ quality of life reflected in the high taxes they pay compared to other countries making the top of the ‘highest taxed countries’ list? FAUSTINE NGILA Côte d’Ivoire citizens pay the highest income taxes in the world according to this year’s survey findings by World Population Review. While both its sales and corporate […]
TikTok—specifically #witchtok—is fueling interest in this spiritual movement. Here’s how to immerse yourself in full moon rituals, spellcasting, and more. CHRISTINE MACINTYRE Centuries ago, ancient Celts traveled windy moors to worship the horned god, Cernunnos. Ancient Egyptians crossed deserts to invoke the protection of Isis. Druids journeyed to a forest clearing to perform rituals under […]
ERIKA EDWARDS Three people have died, and four others have had their eyeballs removed because of rare bacterial infections linked to contaminated eyedrops, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday, March 21 The agency has identified 68 patients in 16 states with Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a type of bacterium resistant to most antibiotics. Eight […]
LAURA SANTHANAM Many white Americans have only recently realized what Dr. Marcella Alsan has studied for most of her career – that systemic racism in health care has fostered mistrust among Black and brown patients, widened health disparities and produced dire outcomes for those communities. The COVID-19 pandemic worsened those disparities even further, stacking “inequality […]
The United States and the United Nations have called on Ugandan President Yoweri K. Museveni to retract his country’s anti-gay bill yet to be signed into law, on March 21, calling it “appalling.” “We would have a look at whether or not there might be repercussion that we would have to take, perhaps in an […]