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."
Income inequality varies widely across countries “Night and day my heart is bleeding,” sings the Zimbabwean artiste Winky D on his new album. “When I look at the poor and needy, everything gone with the greedy.” It seems the authorities do not share his concern. Last month the police stormed the stage mid-performance and shut […]
The $400m state-funded church has become hugely controversial in Ghana even as the country pursues an IMF loan due to huge debt and economic woes. KENT MENSAH “I made a pledge to almighty God that He was gracious enough to grant my party, the NPP, and I victory in the 2016 elections after two unsuccessful […]
More than half of new infections were among people aged 15 to 24, and the pandemic lockdowns only tell part of the story. Here’s a look at how we got here—and what we can do about it. ALLIE YANG Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are skyrocketing in the United States, according to the latest data, as […]
President Cyril Ramaphosa said Tuesday April 25, his ruling ANC party had resolved that South Africa should quit the International Criminal Court, which in March issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin. The ICC issued an arrest warrant against Putin in March meaning Pretoria, due to host Brazil, Russia, India, China and South […]
“Heirs of Slavery” will lobby the UK government, alongside Caribbean nations, for a formal apology and reparative justice AURORA ALMENDRAL The slave trade helped make their families rich. But, two centuries later, a handful of British aristocrats, part of a new organization called Heirs of Slavery, are lobbying the UK government to offer a formal […]
ZEENAT HANSROD Belgian researchers report that 45 percent of deforestation in Côte d’Ivoire in the past decade is the result of unregulated cocoa production. Researchers from the Belgian university of Louvain found that 45 percent of the destruction of forest in Côte d’Ivoire between 2000 and 2019 was the result of unregulated cocoa production. Tropical […]
Essex County College (ECC), Newark, New Jersey, United States of America (USA) played host to African Royalty with all its color, glamor, drumming and dancing on Friday, April 21, 2023, as a renowned King from one of the ancient dynasties of Ghana came calling. It was not, however, all pomp and pageantry as the College’s […]
AMBAR CASTILLO For many years, there’s been considerable debate about the best age for women to initiate breast cancer screening. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that women start getting screenings around age 50, while groups such as the American Cancer Society recommend screenings begin at an earlier age. Now a large new study […]
Human rights activists have criticized Ethiopia’s continuing recruitment of women for domestic work in Saudi Arabia. ZECHARIAS ZELALEM In early March, Hirut was playing with her toddler at her home in Addis Ababa’s Mekanisa district, when she got a call from an unknown number asking if she wanted to work in the Middle East. It […]
The World Bank was established in 1944 to help rebuild Europe and Japan after World War II and initially named the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). It was also created to help restore and sustain the benefits of global integration, by promoting international economic cooperation. As we write, a rival establishment, the New […]