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."
by Adrian Kriesch in Yola One year ago, more than 200 school girls from Chibok were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants. Parents of the missing girls told DW’s correspondent in Nigeria, Adrian Kriesch, they remain optimistic. Lawal Emos clenches his fist and kneads his fingers. He had firmly resolved not to cry when he talks […]
Kenya is mourning 148 people killed April 2 in al-Shabab attack on Garissa university campus, amid questions over why warnings were ignored. Kenyan newspapers say there was intelligence information of an imminent attack on a school or university. Locals question why security was not heightened, with only two guards on duty at the time of […]
“The Ark of Return,” a memorial to the victims of slavery, was unveiled at the United Nations Visitors Plaza on March 25, in a ceremony attended by U.N. officials and foreign dignitaries, Tequila Minsky reports in Caribbean Life. The striking marble monument, with triangular panels designed to echo the triangular nature of the slave trade, […]
President Obama’s immigration relief action may have been temporarily blocked by a Texas judge, but the city of New York and nonprofit organizations working with the city are proceeding with efforts to offer free legal screening and advice to immigrants, so as to be ready, says Nisha Agarwal, commissioner for the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant […]
By Michael Schwirtz A Bronx teenager who fell off the roof of a six-story apartment building on Thursday while fleeing police officers died of his injuries on Saturday April 4 at St. Barnabas Hospital, the police said.Authorities said Hakeem Kuta, 17, was with a group of other teenagers who were smoking marijuana Thursday evening in […]
by Ben Alexander Sporting bright kente cloth of the same design as shown on the front cover of his book, author Kofi Ayim spent a pleasant Saturday afternoon at Newark’s Priory discussing “The Akan of Ghana” with an eager and receptive audience. In the course of his presentation Ayim urged attendees to know their cultural […]
by Kofi Ayim The Vice Presidential candidate of the largest opposition political party in Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu has remarked that an NPP government would prefer to borrow ideas from the best brains to resolve Ghana’s dire socio-economic situation instead of going aborrowing. Dr. Bawumia drove home this point at a get-together with the New Jersey […]
by Kwabena Opong Nigeria’s fledgling democracy took a turn for the best as the country’s ruling PDP led by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was defeated in the just completed general elections on March 28. A four-time presidential candidate General Muhammad Buhari led his opposition APC to wrestle power from the PDP that had since 1999 […]
by E. Obiri Addo The outbreak of Ebola crisis and its aftermath in Sierra Leone can be attributed to “a crisis of governance” at both national and international levels, according to Dr. Fredline A. O. M’Cormack-Hale, Associate Professor at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. She […]
by Kwabena Opong Alfred Agbesi Woyome, the man at the center of a judgment payment scandal was on Thursday, March 12 acquitted and discharged by an Accra Commercial High Court for criminal intent in receiving a payment of 51.2 million Ghana cedis (approximately US$15 million). Woyome was first arrested on February 3, 2012 after the […]