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."
New York is the most linguistically diverse city on the planet. Can it stay that way? ROSS PERLIN Seke is an endangered language originally spoken in five villages of northern Nepal, but its future may depend on a handful of vertical villages: apartment buildings in the middle of Brooklyn, New York. How did a little-documented, […]
Nnamdi O. Madichie, Motshedisi Mathibe, NobuLali Dangazele Every December in Nigeria and Ghana a giant party takes place, unfolding in a whirlwind of concerts, festivals, weddings, art shows, dress-ups, meet-ups and travel. Locals and diaspora west Africans returning from overseas come together to create Detty December, a festive event stretching from mid-December to the new […]
An industry-wide expulsion of the chemicals has been a years-long ambition of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. NIAMH ROWE Nestlé USA announced Wednesday, June 26 that it will completely eliminate synthetic food dyes from all its U.S. food and beverage products by the middle of 2026. The company said the shift will be finalized […]
WESLEY RAHN Togolese civil society groups have called for an investigation after they said several people were killed during anti-government protests in the capital. Several people were killed during anti-government demonstrations over the last weekend last month in Togo’s capital, Lome, according to civil society groups. The unrest comes as Togo’s long-time leader, Faure Gnassingbe, […]
Ghana transitioned to a republic under its first President Kwame Nkrumah in 1960 and commemorated July 1 as Republic Day and a statutory public holiday. Under the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government the holiday was adjusted and moved. The current National Democratic Congress (NDC) government brought back the July 1 public holiday, highlighting it as […]
OUGNA CAMARA Guinea’s interim parliament proposed that presidential term limits be extended, months before the country is scheduled to hold elections after four years of military rule. The National Transitional Council wants the West African nation’s constitution to allow the president to serve for seven years, instead of five, with a limit of two terms, […]
CHRIS EWOKOR Mali’s military leader Gen Assimi Goïta has been granted a five-year presidential term by the transitional parliament, which is renewable without elections. The junta leader, who has seized power twice, had promised the return of democracy last year, but it never materialized. The bill granting his new mandate said it could be renewed […]
The 80-year-old leader pledges economic growth from today’s GDP of $66bn to $500bn within the next five years. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has confirmed he will contest next year’s presidential election, setting the stage for a potential extension of his nearly 40-year rule. The 80-year-old announced late on Saturday, June 28, that he had expressed […]