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."
KOFI AYIM Culture defines a people’s way of life through language, diet, clothing, dwelling, religious beliefs, and name structures, among others. Thus, culture is the sum of the expressions, beliefs, and mannerisms of a people. No group of people living in the earthly world exists without a modicum of culture. Culture plays a significant, if […]
PAUL NJIE & MANSUR ABUBAKAR Cameroon’s 92-year-old President Paul Biya has promised to restore order in the country gripped by post-election violence, as he was sworn in for an eighth consecutive term in office. In his inaugural address, the world’s oldest president offered condolences to victims of the protests and blamed those he called “irresponsible […]
The bloc says ballot stuffing, internet blackout and politically-motivated abductions compromised the vote’s ‘integrity’. FIONA KELLIHER Last month’s Tanzania elections failed to comply with democratic standards, says the African Union (AU), adding to mounting international pressure on President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s administration over the deadly vote. The AU’s election monitoring arm – which sent a […]
CAI NEBE Gold mining has a long history in West Africa, with economies based on the precious metal. But today, a large chunk of Ghana’s gold revenues vanish into the unofficial, and untraceable, trade. In medieval times, the name Ghana meant ruler of the Ghana Empire, or “King of Gold.” The country’s colonial-era name, Gold […]
A new struggle on an old battlefield DECLAN WALSH Since the city of El Fasher in Sudan fell to a paramilitary force last month, verified images and witness accounts have pointed to an unfolding massacre in the country’s Darfur region. Residents were shot as they tried to flee the city. Videos show paramilitary forces casually […]
NICOLAS NEGOCE & NATASHA BOOTY The military commander who has ruled Guinea since a coup four years ago has entered the presidential race ahead of next month’s election, breaking an earlier promise to hand power to a civilian government. Gen Mamadi Doumbouya submitted his candidacy at the Supreme Court on Monday, November 3, flanked by […]
Djibouti’s parliament has voted unanimously to lift a presidential age limit, opening the way for its 77-year-old leader Ismail Omar Guelleh to run for a sixth term in April 2026 election. Guelleh, known as IOG, has held power in the tiny Horn of Africa nation since 1999. With a population of just one million, it’s […]
WEDAELI CHIBELUSHI & THOMAS NAADI Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has secured a fourth term following an election in which two of his biggest challengers were barred from running, provisional results show. Ouattara, 83, won 89.8% of the vote, the electoral commission said on Monday, October 27, and businessman Jeal-Louis Billon came a distant second […]
KARLOS ZURUTUZA Ehmudi Lebsir was 17 when he trudged more than 50 kilometers across the desert to stay alive. Half a century on, the Sahrawi refugee still has not gone home to what was then Spanish province of Western Sahara. On 6 November 1975, six days after Moroccan troops pushed into the territory, hundreds of […]
STEVE STRUNSKY After getting off work, Christopher Seals was enjoying a sunny afternoon in the plaza outside the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. He hadn’t noticed the historical marker a few feet away, almost hidden among a row of saplings, honoring Cudjo Banquante, an enslaved Black man born in Ghana of royal blood […]