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."
For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a tragic story of enslavement and commerce from the time of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. ROFF SMITH For three weeks, since the Portuguese São José Paquete d’Africa lifted anchor in Mozambique, the 512 enslaved […]
French government says it is open to dialogue but does not acknowledge responsibility in letter seen by the Guardian EROMO EGBEJULE More than a century after its troops burned villages and looted cultural artifacts in the quest to include Niger in its west African colonial portfolio, France has signaled willingness over possible restitution but is […]
KATE BARTLETT Crowds of women, bundled up in wooly hats and mittens against the sharp winter chill, wait every morning at the gates of a garment factory in Lesotho’s capital, hoping that a few among them will be called in to work a shift. But no-one comes out and the factory gates – which bear […]
ISAAC KALEDZI As Kenya’s youth keep pushing for political and social change, they risk paying a steep personal price. Deadly clashes with police, emotional trauma and anxiety have become their new realities. On June 25, Wendy, a young Kenyan woman, joined hundreds of demonstrators in Nairobi to protest the death of Albert Ojwang, a 31-year-old […]
EMMANUEL AKINWOTU Nigeria’s government says it will resist pressure from the Trump administration to accept deportees from Venezuela and other third countries. In an interview with Nigeria’s Channels TV on Friday, July 11, Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar said the U.S. was pressuring several African nations to accept foreign nationals whom the U.S. wants to deport. […]
President Biya is the world’s oldest serving head of state and could stay in office until he is nearly 100 if he wins the October election. Cameroon’s president, Paul Biya, who is 92 years old, has announced plans to run for an eighth term in this year’s presidential election on October 12. Biya, who is […]
MOSES KOLLIE GARZEAWU Liberia’s former President William Tolbert has had a symbolic reburial, 45 years after he was murdered during a coup and his body was believed to have been dumped in a mass grave. Ten days after the president’s killing, following trials by a kangaroo court, 13 of his cabinet were stripped, tied to […]
Germany is desperate for foreign skilled workers. But despite its revamped consular services website and special visa program, few workers are relocating to Germany. How come? Silja Fröhlich Grace Ochieng (not her real name) began the visa application process a year ago to come study in Germany. “And then the insanity with the visa started,” […]
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 […]