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."
MILDRED EUROPA TAYLOR A man from the Democratic Republic of the Congo identified simply as Luwizo has tied the knot with triplets in a colorful ceremony. The 32-year-old got married to triplets, Nadege, Natacha, and Nathalie, in the ceremony held last month in Karehe, located in South Kivu, DR Congo. In an interview with Afrimax […]
CHRISPIN MWAKIDEU Nigeria, Senegal and Algeria have criticized Ukraine’s efforts to enlist international fighters as it resists a Russian invasion. Analysts say those who have responded to the call need to reconsider. Russia’s war on Ukraine is barely two weeks old but Kyiv is already attracting potential foreign fighters from as far away as Kenya. […]
VINCENT KEJITAN The Atheists in Kenya Society has written to Education CS Prof George Magoha asking him to ban forced prayers in schools. The Society stated that it had received several complaints from students in Kenyan schools who had been forced to attend church services on Sundays. “Most Kenyans have gone through a public education […]
The Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley, has called on Africans and the Caribbean to bridge their artificial barriers and collaborate to boost trade and investment. “This is the way to give a strong boost to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCTA) to resolve the myriad of debilitating socio-economic, ecological and political challenges […]
The talk of the town now among the opposition and critics of the ruling government is a military coup d’état to mitigate the hard times in Ghana. And Amandla says it is a shortsighted and unwise perception for a country that has had more than a dozen forcible changes of government in its 65 years […]
If you are a Ghanaian boy of Akan origin who was born on a Sunday, it is very likely that you are named Kwasi. You share the same name as a bitter medicinal plant whose importance in the food and beverages sector is unrivaled – as far as bitters go. If you have ever had […]
On the agenda of a recent AU summit in Addis Ababa was the spate of coups in the West African region. The ‘wave of unconstitutional changes of government’ was found disturbing. The Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States, Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo bemoaned the trend, describing it as and ‘contagious.’ […]
HANSI Lo WANG There’s a reality about race in the U.S. that has confounded many people of Middle Eastern or North African descent. The federal government officially categorizes people with origins in Lebanon, Iran, Egypt and other countries in the MENA region as white. But that racial identity has not matched the discrimination in housing, […]
As the Sahel region “stares down a horrendous food crisis”, the UN emergency food relief chief warned on Wednesday that the number of people on the brink of starvation has “increased almost tenfold” over the past three years and “displacement by nearly 400 per cent”. The vast Sahel, which runs nearly the breadth of the […]
In Madagascar, child sex abuse is “widespread and tolerated” in tourist hotspots, UN-appointed rights experts said on Thursday February 17. In a call to the authorities to take action to protect youngsters from child prostitution and other violations, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child heard that the majority of children who had sex for money, do […]