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."
LUCY FLEMING Ethiopia has restricted social media and messaging platforms ahead of rival planned rallies following a split in the popular Orthodox Church. The row has caused deadly violence and began in January when some clerics accused the main church of ethnic discrimination, which it denies. The authorities banned protests by both sides due to […]
Tanzania has floated East Africa’s largest-ever domestically manufactured freshwater passenger and cargo ship, the MV Mwanza Hapa Kazi Tu, on Lake Victoria. The ship, launched at the Mwanza South Port on February 12, can carry 1,200 passengers, 400 tons of cargo, 20 small vehicles and three trucks. It is currently 82 percent complete. “Up to […]
KOFI AYIM The 30-year-old councilmember of Sayreville, New Jersey, who was cold-bloodedly murdered on Wednesday February 1, 2023, goes home on March 4, 2023. Ms. Eunice Dwumfour was one of two Borough Republicans elected to the Borough Council in 2021. Published reports say the affable enterprising lady was shot multiple times while attempting to park […]
Some call it political corruption, and it has been commonplace since Ghana attained independence in 1957 and has always ranked high on the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index. According to observers, the West African nation improved slightly higher than Italy and Brazil. In 2021 it ranked 73rd on the Corruption Perception Index. In Ghana, however, […]
“I didn’t know that you could tear at the top of your vagina. I would have appreciated more information while I was pregnant.” VENESSA WONG Before childbirth, Sakinah Harrison had a great relationship with her body. “I loved the way I looked. I loved the way I felt. I was very confident,” she recalled. She […]
COREIN CARTER Would you be persuaded to attend a festival if I told you that you could leave a changed person? AfroFuture accomplished that and then some. The festival formerly known as Afrochella, was founded in 2017 by Abdul Karim Abdullah and Kenny Agyapong and has now evolved into much more than just a music […]
Excerpts from the book: Jack Cudjo. Newark’s Revolutionary Soldier & First Black Businessman “This is a riveting historical account of an early enslaved African in New Jersey on par with the narrative of Olaudah Equiano. Cudjo, or Banquante, is an extraordinary person who enters our history in this book with a much fuller portrait and […]
In Virginia, the land still owned by the Coles family could yield billions from uranium. Does any of that wealth belong to the descendants of the enslaved? JULIE ZAUZMER WEIL The land came first, 5,557 acres of forest purchased two years after the Revolutionary War by a Virginia slaveholder and future congressman. The mansion came […]
SETH FREED WESSLER The cemetery’s disappearance cleared the way for the expansion of a Microsoft data center, despite layers of federal and state regulations nominally intended to protect culturally significant sites. Nobody working to bring a $346 million Microsoft project to rural Virginia expected to find graves in the woods. But in a cluster of […]
HANNAH BROCKHAUS In his first speech in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday, January 31 Pope Francis urged the international community to give the central African country its autonomy while not turning a blind eye to exploitation and violence. “This country and this continent deserve to be respected and listened to; they deserve to […]