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."
ALI JAW Sidia Jatta, Gambian politician, academic and writer, said on Wednesday March 8, that Africans are still culturally enslaved. The former Wuli West representative at the National Assembly of The Gambia made the statement during a workshop convened by the African Academy of Languages (ACALAN) to discuss mechanisms for language policy development for The […]
A preliminary statement on the recent general elections in Nigeria by the International Republican Institute (IRI) and National Democratic Institute (NDI) Joint Observation Mission led by former Malawi President Joyce Banda observed that “despite the much-needed reforms to the Electoral Act 2022, the election fell well short of Nigerian citizens’ reasonable expectations. Logistical challenges and […]
How did more than 600 Cameroonians come to find themselves stranded on a Caribbean Island that many of them had never heard of? Journalist Gemma Handy reports from St John’s in Antigua. Daniel fights to hold back the tears as he recounts the day his two younger brothers were shot dead by militia during a […]
FATMA BEN HAMAD As Tunisian authorities continue to carry out mass arrests of people from sub-Saharan Africa as part of a campaign against irregular migration, Black Tunisians report that they are experiencing increasing amounts of abuse. Black Tunisian women activists are now speaking out about this rampant racial profiling, denouncing the racist climate and showing […]
ALEX GITTA Uganda’s new anti-gay bill, which proposes punishing people who support or fund homosexuality, has widespread support from MPs — but rights activists say the bill is a diversion from the real issues affecting citizens. Ugandan lawmakers are hopeful that a new law designed to tighten restrictions on gay rights and activities will soon […]
DAVID WILDSTEIN Eunice Dwumfour, shot and killed on February 1, was opposed by local police union who sought to remove her as council liaison A 30-year-old Sayreville councilwoman who was shot and killed outside her home had faced opposition from the head of the local law enforcement union for being anti-police one month before her […]
In the 17th century, Dahomey flourished under the protection of its all-woman military regiment that inspired Viola Davis’s acclaimed film The Woman King RACHEL JONES Call it mere coincidence or a masterstroke of tourism-focused timing. Earlier this year, when news spread that a hundred-foot-tall statue of Queen Tassi Hangbe had been erected in the West […]
MAGDALENE J. TAYLOR Sex is good. Sex is healthy. Sex is an essential part of our social fabric. And you — specifically — should probably be having more of it. Americans, in the midst of a loneliness epidemic, are not having enough sex. Across almost every demographic group, American adults old and young, single and […]
When the war in Ukraine disrupted wheat exports, University of Kisangani students set out to manufacture pasta with homegrown cassava ZTA AMWANGA Every morning, Madeleine Kombozi, 38, sets up a stall in front of the Institut Chololo, a technical school in the Makiso commune in the center of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo. […]
IlAN STAVANS Mr. Stavans is Lewis-Sebring professor at Amherst College and a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary. He is the author of the forthcoming book “The People’s Tongue: Americans and the English Language.” The immigration debate often centers on who should be welcomed into our country. Some even argue that multiculturalism dilutes our national […]