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."
UCHENNA EKWO When the late Ted Kennedy, the influential Democratic US Senator from Massachusetts endorsed the relatively unknown and young Barack Obama over a superior name brand – Hillary Clinton, he changed the course of the 2008 US presidential election. In his fiery speech that late January, 2008 at the American University, Kennedy said “…there […]
MOHAMMED MOMOH Three West African nations – Nigeria, Liberia and Sierra Leone – are jostling to strengthen their fledgling democracies as they go to polls to elect new presidents in 2023. All three have a dark past of coups or civil wars. Nigeria is scheduled to conduct its presidential election on February 25, and governorship […]
ANITA POWEL Top Chinese, Russian and American officials are scrambling to visit African nations and pledge their commitment to the world’s fastest-growing continent. As President Joe Biden prepares for a visit later this year, several of his top officials have recently visited Africa. There, they must balance the desire to secure the continent’s support against […]
DIANA HODALI Abortions are illegal in Egypt unless they are necessary to save a married woman’s life. But that doesn’t stop local women from having one. Egyptian society needs to acknowledge this, activists say. The memory of that day is still very painful for Noura. She was in Cairo’s City Stars Mall when she suddenly […]
Flush with success from investing in sports and the arts, Senegal’s cultural capital seems to know no bounds. On Dec. 6 2022, Chanel, one of the world’s leading luxury brands, organized a three-day cultural program in Senegal, the Chanel Métiers d’Art show. This was the inaugural runway show for the haute couture brand on African […]
The spaceport, expected to include seven satellite launch pads and three rocket testing pads, will be the first orbital spaceport on the continent. Africa could soon get a new spaceport after Djibouti signed a partnership deal with Hong Kong Aerospace Technology to build a facility to launch satellites and rockets in the northern Obock region. […]
CHRIS ISIDORE Canada in 2023 is closing its doors to foreign investors who want to purchase homes. A new Canadian law took effect January 1 that essentially bans foreign buyers from buying residential properties as investments for two years. The law was passed because of a spike in Canadian home prices since the start of […]
EMILY ALPERT REYES Michael Mendez said that when learned he had hepatitis C, “I didn’t even know what it was.” Mendez, 47, had been homeless for years in Los Angeles, and said he hadn’t gone to a doctor the entire time he was living on the streets. When Mendez got a roof over his head, […]
ELLE HUNT ‘We’re built for sleep,’ according to the psychologist Aric Prather, yet many of us still struggle to overcome insomnia. He talks us through his ‘prescription’ Many of us are hoping for a happier, healthier life in 2023. We may already be trying lifestyle changes (daily meditation, giving up dairy), but for most of […]
KOFI AYIM Africa’s impact on world civilization – science, religion, etc. – has been confined to the doldrums of history. Africans everywhere – pre, during, and post slavery – have been struggling to rediscover their identities and place them on the pedestal step of natural order in development. Contemporary African Immigrants, especially in the US, […]