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."
President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday decorated the service chiefs with their new ranks and directed them to strive to end the Boko Haram The service chiefs and their new ranks are Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Sabundu Badeh; Chief of Army Staff, insurgency in the North-east. Lieutenant-General Kenneth Tobia Minimah; Chief of Naval […]
Expelling record numbers of immigrants is a costly way to make America less dynamic OCTAVIO NAVA CABRERA was pulled over by police in Illinois in April 2013 for going through a stop sign. He had arrived in the state in 1986, aged 13, and most of his family still live there. He did not have […]
The Kwakwaduam Association of New York celebrated its 2013 End of year Fund Raising Dinner at the Eastchester Manor in the Bronx, New York. The theme of the celebration was “Helping Blind Children See”. Proceeds from the Fund Raising launched by Dr. Kwame Aniapam Boafo was to advance the cause of Blindness in Ghana and […]
Ghana once again finds itself in the throes of fiscal woes and it is strange and difficult to understand, especially at this time in the country’s economic history. Only a few months ago the country was reported to be among the few countries in the world – not Africa – whose economies were growing faster […]
Africans in the Diaspora have been challenged to wake up to Africa, because the Mother continent still exists and there is no reason to lose contact with it. This assertion was made by Junius Williams Esq. Thursday February 6, at the month-long Newark Public Library Black History Month Celebrations, themed “Africa, Oh Africa”. This year’s […]
Of the department’s latest batch of 650 new officers, two speak ‘Ewe,’ the primary language of thousands of people from Ghana and Togo — a first for the force. Two of the 650 recruits that joined the NYPD Police Academy Thursday speak the primary language of Ghana and Togo — a first for the 168-year-old […]
By Nina de Vries Sierra Leone’s National Power Authority [NPA], which is responsible for providing the country with power, has deployed a new device that can detect faulty underground cables. The hope is to help provide electricity around-the-clock through the use of this equipment. It will have a great impact on Sierra Leoneons, who face […]
by Elias Ntungwe Ngalame West African states in the Niger River Basin are seeking to tackle climate risks and reduce poverty by constructing three hydropower dams in the next five years. In late November, the Council of Ministers of the Niger Basin Authority (NBA), meeting in Cameroon’s capital Yaounde, endorsed an environmental and climate action […]
by Kwabena Opong Amiri Baraka, a major African American writer described as a primary intellectual architect of the Black Arts movement of the 1960s died January 9 at a Newark hospital aged 79. Cause of death has not been reported but Prof. Baraka has been hospitalized in intensive care since December 2013. Baraka closely identified […]
Cairo – AFP A US team in Egypt has identified the tomb of pharaoh Sobekhotep I, believed to be the founder of the 13th dynasty 3,800 years ago, the antiquities minister said Monday. The team from the University of Pennsylvania had discovered the quartzite sarcophagus of Sobekhotep I, which weighed about 60 tonnes, a year […]