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."
Germany was a significant – and often brutal – colonial power in Africa. But this colonial history is not told as often as that of other imperialist nations. A new book called The Long Shadow of German Colonialism: Amnesia, Denialism and Revisionism aims to bring the past into the light. It explores not just the […]
Large infrastructure gaps are creating a new digital divide TWO DECADES ago, a digital revolution transformed the lives and livelihoods of millions of people as mobile phones swept across sub-Saharan Africa. A region where a tiny fraction of the population had landline phones or bank accounts was able to leapfrog old telephone monopolies and infrastructure. […]
WYCLIFFE MUIA More than 4,000 churches have been closed down over the last month in Rwanda for failing to comply with health and safety regulations, including not being properly soundproofed. It has affected mostly small Pentecostal churches and a few mosques – some of them operating out of caves or on the banks of rivers. […]
These sex-related mishaps can land you in the emergency room. Here’s how to avoid them. KELSEY BORRESEN Sex should be a fun and pleasurable experience that leaves you in a state of post-coital bliss — not one that sends you to the emergency room. Unfortunately, injuries from sex do happen from time to time. Minor […]
TINEI TUHWE ZANU PF Information Secretary Chris Mutsvangwa has rapped South African opposition leader Julius Malema for meddling in Zimbabwe’s internal affairs. This comes after the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader urged Zimbabwean youths to rise against President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration and prevent him from extending his rule beyond the constitutional limit. Malema recently called […]
The Secretary of State for Industry and Commerce, Carlos de Carvalho Rodrigues, reaffirmed Thursday August 8 in this city that policies are being adopted to reduce the prices of the main products of the basic basket in the market. The official, who is on a two-day working visit to Benguela, is x-raying the reality of […]
It is said that a healthy nation is a wealthy nation. But the wealth of a nation depends on the investments of infrastructure and human resources that a government places on the health of the nation. Both complement one another to attain a Six Sigma status. But the health of a nation, and by extension […]
‘When the war stopped, a new one started on women.’ MAYA MISIKIR Earlier this year, hundreds of women took to the streets of the northern Tigrayan city of Mekelle to protest the growing violence women are facing across the region – two years after the end of the civil war. The spark was the murder […]
France has made a key gesture of remembrance for the dozens of African troops shot dead on French army orders at the Thiaroye camp in Senegal during World War II. This comes as Paris seeks to ease tensions with former colonies over how their joint history is remembered. On 1 December 1944, colonial troops and […]
JOSUE MEHOUENOU Lilith Dorsey is an American citizen living in New Orleans, but it is in Benin that she could end her days to “feel closer to her homeland”. In the coming months, the author, dancer and filmmaker aims to take advantage of a new law in the West African state granting Beninese nationality to […]