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."
JOSHUA KORBER HOFFMAN Kennedy Johnson was 15 years old when she gave birth to a baby girl in a Detroit foster home for teen moms, in February 1996. Twenty-five years later, when Johnson found herself in northern Ghana being made a queen, she couldn’t quite believe where life had led her. In front of an […]
JUSTICE MALALA The US president-elect needs to be sensitized to the fact that if he fails to reauthorize AGOA, it would greatly diminish America’s ability to counter his nemesis China, and to a lesser extent Russia, writes Justice Malala. Like their counterparts around the globe, African leaders and investors are trying to figure out what […]
At first, the suggestion to try farming maggots spooked Mari Choumumba and other farmers in Nyangambe, a region in southeastern Zimbabwe where drought wiped out the staple crop of corn. After multiple cholera outbreaks in the southern African nation resulting from extreme weather and poor sanitation, flies were largely seen as something to exterminate, not […]
Ghana’s contentious presidential and parliamentarian elections on December 7 between the two dominant parties in the 4th Republic provided several firsts. Former president John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), who was the first one-term president in Ghana’s 4th Republic, shocked both critics and observers with his almost 57% of the total valid […]
DANAI NESTA KUPEMBA Ivory Coast’s beloved staple, attiéké – made from fermented cassava flour – has officially been added to UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage. Attiéké, pronounced atchekay, is a kind of couscous made from ground cassava roots. It is so well-loved that many people have it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nicknamed “Ivorian […]
Namibia’s ruling SWAPO party was declared winner Tuesday, December 3 of last late month’s disputed elections, ushering in the southern African country’s first woman president after a disputed vote that the main opposition has already said it does not recognize. Vice-President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah took just over 57 percent of ballots followed by the candidate for […]
LLOYD G. ADU AMOAH John Dramani Mahama, Ghana’s incoming president, has won a chance to rewrite his legacy. He was voted out of office in 2016 by what was then the highest margin in the post-independence history of the west African nation amid corruption scandals and an energy crisis that had crippled the country. But […]