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."
Nigeria’s timely military intervention in Benin over the weekend proved decisive in defeating an attempted coup against Beninese President Patrice Talon. It was also a win for Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, whose country was powerless to prevent a spate of coups in neighbouring Niger and across the volatile West African region. David RICH It was […]
FABIANA BUONTEMPO There’s no denying that the costs of weddings these days are astronomically high — but if you’re inviting guests to attend your black-tie, 7-hour wedding, the least you can do is feed them. One disgruntled attendee took to Reddit’s r/weddingshaming forum to share that exact experience at a recent wedding they attended. “… […]
KRISTIN WRIGHT After a 137-year struggle, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has finally received full federal recognition from the U.S. government. Members of the Native American tribe shed tears as it reached the historic milestone in Washington, D.C., this week. Tribal Chairman John L. Lowery witnessed President Trump sign the bill that extended acknowledgment […]
KOFI AYIM As Gardiner explains of ancient Egypt, “Among officials whose duty it was to look after the king’s own person there were sandal bearers, keepers of the robes and crowns, barbers, and physicians, the last sometimes highly specialized like oculists, stomach doctors, and the like. A host of servants were employed in kitchen and […]
The American sect has come a long way from being “the white people’s church” Two decades ago Sampson Boamah did something unusual for a Ghanaian high school student: he became a Mormon. Back then the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as the American Christian sect is formally known, was on the fringes in […]
Massacres at the start of the war in Sudan should have shocked the world into action. They didn’t. And so more massacres followed. DR. JAVID ABDELMONEIM Over the last two months in Darfur, Sudan, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have committed horrifying atrocities in the city of el-Fasher. There, they have fired on and killed […]
KOFI AYIM Akan names, like names in several other African cultures, are not mere labels or tags. Rather, they are, as in ancient Egypt, part of the spiritual whole of a person, and often express qualities that the person is expected to possess. Akan first names are soulful in nature. A soul name, or kradin, […]
PAMELA APPEA Flushing Town Hall hosted a Global Mashup musical and dance event on Friday, November 21st. The evening performance featured the Portland, Oregon-based group Seffarine including Moroccan singer Lamiae Naki and flamenco guitarist Nat Hulskamp and other members. Martín Vejarano of the NYC-based La Cumbiamba e NeYé, a Colombian music group, performed alongside several […]
MAYENI JONES Even before the dam collapsed, Lamec did not feel safe working at the copper mine. “If our work protective gear gets damaged, it is not always replaced,” he tells us. “We have to take a risk and use it again.” He is talking to the BBC in a car on a quiet backroad […]
GABRIELLE EMANUEL One of the crowning achievements in global health is at risk of coming undone. Between 2000 and 2020, the number of children who die before they hit their 5th birthday dropped by half — from nearly 10 million deaths a year to under 5 million deaths a year. What brought about this remarkable […]