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."
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 […]
JILL LAWLESS The Church of England should create a fund of 1 billion pounds — $1.27 billion — to address its historical links to slavery, according to an advisory panel. That’s 10 times the amount the church previously set aside. An independent oversight group established by the church said earlier this month that a fund […]
Nearly 100 million children and youth aged 5 to 19 across Africa are not socially integrated simply because they are out of school, African Union (AU) Commissioner for Education, Science, Technology and Innovation Mohammed Belhocine said Thursday, February 15. These children and youth are vulnerable to all sorts of scourges, and they can be easily […]
JOE BAVIER & BOUREIMA BALIMA Days after Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announced last month they were quitting the West Africa political union ECOWAS, Burkina Faso’s military ruler Ibrahim Traore was already naming his next target: the region’s CFA franc currency. “It’s not just the currency. Anything that maintains us in slavery, we’ll break those […]
Leaders at an African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Saturday, February 17 condemned Israel’s offensive in Gaza and called for its immediate end. Moussa Faki, the chair of the African Union Commission, said Israel’s offensive was the “most flagrant” violation of international humanitarian law and accused Israel of having “exterminated” Gaza’s […]
In a quest for political change and economic justice, young activists in Eswatini and across Africa are challenging the status quo, taking on leaders accused of prioritizing personal gain over national welfare. Frustrations simmer as the continent’s youthful population, with a median age of 19, demands a departure from the legacies of poverty, unemployment, and […]