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."
You’re invited to the 2012 Diaspora Media Conference. The conference is an annual gathering of journalists, media scholars, and civil society activists determined to improve reporting in and from countries that are hostile to an open press. At a time when media credibility is very low, the gathering couldn’t be more timely. At: […]
S. Kwaku Asare The Supreme Court recently made several important pronouncements on dual citizenship that has statutory, regulatory, and travel implications. The pronouncements render inaccurate and obsolete information posted on the website of many of our embassies. I discuss the pronouncements and their implications, especially for travelling as a dual citizen. In 1996, the […]
Latest reports indicate tension is escalating in Kpanyili, a village near Nankpanduri in the Northern region following intense fighting between Kokombas and Bemobas there. Eye witnesses say several houses have been set ablaze and there are exchanges of gun fire. Residents are said to be fleeing to neighbouring towns. The clashes are said to have […]
(CNN) — Hours after his family members alerted police to a human head and two hands they discovered stashed in metal tins, a Maryland man admitted killing his housemate, cutting him up, then eating his heart and part of his brain, authorities said. Alexander Kinyua, 21, was being held without bail Thursday at the Harford […]
By M. Alex Johnson, msnbc.com Nigeria’s aviation ministry said Sunday that 147 people were aboard a Dana Airlines passenger jet that crashed into a two-story building in Lagos, the country’s largest city. “I don’t believe there are any survivors,” said Harold Denuren, Nigeria’s director of aviation. The flight originally was reported to have been carrying […]
ACCRA — A cargo plane crash-landed on Saturday near the airport in Ghana’s capital Accra after overshooting the runway and hit a bus on the ground, killing at least 10 people, but the crew survived, officials said. Wreckage from the Boeing 727 Allied Air plane could be seen in an area near the airport along […]
Liberia’s ex-President Charles Taylor has been sentenced to 50 years in jail by a UN-backed war crimes court. Last month Taylor was found guilty of aiding and abetting rebels in Sierra Leone during the 1991-2002 civil war. The prosecution at the Special Court for Sierra Leone wanted an 80-year prison term, which the defense said […]
Marc-André Boisvert/IRIN Polling station. Cape Town — An opposition party led by a veteran Basotho politician who once served in the Cabinet of long-time Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili has made an unexpectedly strong showing in the country’s elections. With results in three-quarters of the country’s constituencies declared on Monday, Tom Thabane’s All Basotho Convention […]
By Sam Kebongo ACTUALLY, there are a lot of African inventors. A quick scan at sites such www.kumatoo.com will give you surprising and interesting results. So why is it that we don’t know them? We know a lot about Alexander Bell, The Wright Brothers, Galileo Galilei, Montessori, Thomas Edison, the late Steve Jobs (RIP), Charles […]
By Brad Morgan Marsha Marescia will captain the best prepared South African women’s Olympic squad yet at the London Olympic Games. Now aged 29, she has been a member of the national team since 2001. She made her debut in October of that year at the age of 18. Almost 11 years later, when she […]