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."
The American sect has come a long way from being “the white people’s church” Two decades ago Sampson Boamah did something unusual for a Ghanaian high school student: he became a Mormon. Back then the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as the American Christian sect is formally known, was on the fringes in […]
Massacres at the start of the war in Sudan should have shocked the world into action. They didn’t. And so more massacres followed. DR. JAVID ABDELMONEIM Over the last two months in Darfur, Sudan, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have committed horrifying atrocities in the city of el-Fasher. There, they have fired on and killed […]
KOFI AYIM Akan names, like names in several other African cultures, are not mere labels or tags. Rather, they are, as in ancient Egypt, part of the spiritual whole of a person, and often express qualities that the person is expected to possess. Akan first names are soulful in nature. A soul name, or kradin, […]
PAMELA APPEA Flushing Town Hall hosted a Global Mashup musical and dance event on Friday, November 21st. The evening performance featured the Portland, Oregon-based group Seffarine including Moroccan singer Lamiae Naki and flamenco guitarist Nat Hulskamp and other members. Martín Vejarano of the NYC-based La Cumbiamba e NeYé, a Colombian music group, performed alongside several […]
MAYENI JONES Even before the dam collapsed, Lamec did not feel safe working at the copper mine. “If our work protective gear gets damaged, it is not always replaced,” he tells us. “We have to take a risk and use it again.” He is talking to the BBC in a car on a quiet backroad […]
GABRIELLE EMANUEL One of the crowning achievements in global health is at risk of coming undone. Between 2000 and 2020, the number of children who die before they hit their 5th birthday dropped by half — from nearly 10 million deaths a year to under 5 million deaths a year. What brought about this remarkable […]
KOFI AYIM Merry Christmas! We used to say to each other not long ago. The spirit of Christmas would affect every home before December 25. Those were the days when we were young back home in Ghana. We would put on (or were made to put on) the best of clothes and shoes. Every parent, […]
Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan accused foreign powers of a colonial attitude for condemning deadly violence that marred her re-election. The United Nations has called for an investigation, saying hundreds of people may have been killed by security forces firing on protesters. Hassan defended the use of force, saying security forces were […]
ZIPPORAH MUSAU Although Africa holds more than 30 per cent of the world’s critical green minerals—including cobalt, lithium, manganese, and rare earth elements vital for building batteries, wind turbines and solar panels – this has not translated into prosperity for the continent. At the Africa Climate Summit 2025 held in Addis Ababa in September […]