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."
As the war in Sudan enters its second year next month, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on Monday, March 18 warned of a staggering toll of the crisis on children, with an estimated 24 million teetering on the brink of a “generational catastrophe”. Since the conflict erupted in April 2023, […]
U.S. Air Force veteran is challenging Bill Pascrell in NJ-9 DAVID WILDSTEIN Billy Prempeh crushed a perennial candidate March 19 to capture the Bergen County Republican organization line, giving him a clear path for a rematch with Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-Paterson) in New Jersey’s 9th district. Prempeh won the Bergen GOP convention by a more […]
Mr. Gething, 50, was narrowly elected leader of Wales’s governing Labor Party, and then was elected first minister by the Senedd, or Welsh Parliament. SOPAN DEB Vaughan Gething on Thursday March 21 became the first Black person to lead a national government in Europe, a day after he was elected the first minister of Wales. […]
Black people make up about 14 percent of the U.S. population. Many of them are wondering what it would be like to be part of a majority. Colette Coleman Jes’ka Washington lives in a six-bedroom house on a hill with avocado trees and a spectacular view, not far from the rabbit farm she runs. For […]
Global warming has shrunk crop yields in farming communities. Some have poured their frustration into making wine. COLLETTA DEWA Regina Mukandawire has been growing bananas on her small farm in the Karonga district in northern Malawi for more than 16 years. But heatwaves, floods and disease outbreaks that have hit the country since 2010 have […]
NYASHA NYAUNGWA Namibian communities whose ancestors were massacred by German colonial forces and had their property seized more than a century ago are calling for fresh talks with Berlin to negotiate the return of ancestral land. Germany agreed in May 2021 to fund projects worth $1.2 billion over 30 years to make up for the […]
JING PAN When you spend millions of dollars buying your dream home, you naturally anticipate the freedom to live in it. Yet, the gap between expectation and reality can be startlingly wide. Meet Susana and Joseph Landa, who bought their $2 million dream house in the New York City suburb of Douglaston, Queens in October […]
Architects use local materials and merge traditional techniques with modern technology to make schools and orphanages cool, welcoming places ÈLIA BORRAS If architects are people who like to think their way around challenges, building schools in Burkina Faso must be the dream job. The challenges, after all, are legion: scorching temperatures in the high seasons, […]
KOFI AYIM Western influences and attempt to fuse or reconcile such influences with longstanding traditions have created many quandaries for today’s Akan and other Africans. Marriage is one area rife with such quandaries. Just as a Western or Caucasian marriage (wedding) is not part of Akan or African culture, so is it that a married […]
Women’s rights are under threat as Gambia’s parliament discusses a bill to roll back a ban on female genital mutilation. Members of Gambia’s National Assembly have proposed legislation to repeal a national law prohibiting female genital mutilation (FGM). The tiny West African nation explicitly criminalized FGM, also called cutting or female circumcision, in 2015. The […]