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."
by By Melissa Noel For almost a decade during her childhood, Melissa Elias communicated with her mother mainly through phone calls – or she’d hear from her when she received goods sent in a shipping barrel. “I remember the barrels… there were a lot of foodstuffs she (my mother) would send. She would send sneakers […]
It was a frantic journey through time full of beauty, irony and illusion. But I did it for a formidable reason. I want to encourage others that age has nothing to do with education. Why did I decide to come to America after all? Someone may ask. It all began in January 1979 when a […]
Former first lady and former US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, was Thursday July 28 nominated by the Democratic Party as its presidential candidate for the November general elections. She becomes the first female nominee for the Democratic Party. If she wins in November she would be the first female United States President and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]