
A 58-year-old man from the West African nation of Ghana will have an extended stay in Canada after accepting responsibility Friday for child pornography found on his cellphone as he entered the country. Thomas Aboagye Acheampong was arrested Monday at Halifax Stanfield International Airport after arriving on an Air Canada flight from London. Acheampong told […]
Aug 12 2016 | Posted in
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By Kwabena Opong Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama, after unthinkingly prejudicing himself with a car gift from a Burkinabe contractor who sought for and benefited from Mahama’s friendship has set in motion a propaganda machinery that is aimed at legitimizing a shameful act. Some who would defend the president as corrupt have been shamed into […]
Jun 21 2016 | Posted in
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by Ukachi Uwadinobi What would a married man do after learning that his wife had been attacked by an intruder who broke into their apartment and tried to rape her? Mamadou Diallo, 61, an African immigrant living in the Bronx, New York found himself in that awful situation. He responded in a way that caught […]
Jun 17 2016 | Posted in
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Toyosi Orunmuyi has been leading a double life. On weekends, he is a casually dressed executive MBA student at the University of Michigan in the US. On weekdays, he’s leading corporate presentations as an oil and gas executive in Lagos, Nigeria. The 32-year-old is chief financial officer of the GE Oil and Gas Sub-Saharan Africa […]
Jun 17 2016 | Posted in
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by Amandla’s Editor in Chief Kwabena Opong He was just a prize-fighter, come to think about it. But his prize was not those millions he made in the boxing ring. It is the rewards he garnered from his life in and out of the ring. It is the inspiration he exuded. It is what he […]
By Obi Anyadike Twitter Editor-at-Large The female suicide bomber has become the signature weapon of the Nigerian jihadist group, Boko Haram. Women have strapped explosives to their bodies in other recent conflicts – from Chechnya to Iraq, from Pakistan to Palestine, from Syria to Sri Lanka – but never at such a rate as in […]
May 11 2016 | Posted in
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On April 28, 40 traditional leaders, representing all provinces of the DRC, convened in Gombe to demonstrate their commitment to addressing sexual violence in their local communities. During the training session, organized by the DRC’s Office of the Personal Representative in Charge of the Fight against Sexual Violence and Child Recruitment and the United Nations […]
May 11 2016 | Posted in
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Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah Turn left out of my house and you will come across a Presbyterian Church, a Seventh Day Adventist, an Assemblies of God, Rama, and a Charismatic Evangelistic Ministry, all within 3-minutes. If you turn right and walk across the main road, you will get to a public school, which is distinguished by […]
May 11 2016 | Posted in
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By Kwabena Opong Political frustration can breed bad breadth. Even more so it generates poor language skills that could be detrimental for national cohesion and peaceful coexistence. In Rwanda it is such bad choices in language by individuals and on radio that developed into a genocidal war in which several thousands of Rwandans (Rwandese) lost […]
May 11 2016 | Posted in
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By Kofi Ayim The city of Cambridge in the United Kingdom was founded in the 1st century and the University of Cambridge in 1208. The city of 128,500 residents may have seen geometric progression in development but the same cannot be said of the 800 plus year school, especially when it comes to their graduation […]
May 11 2016 | Posted in
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