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."
Jude O. Nkama was born in Nigeria, West Africa. He came to the United States and obtained a law degree at Seton Hall University, New Jersey, worked his way up through the legal establishments and eventually became the Chief Prosecutor in the City of Newark, New Jersey. On WednesdayJanuary 6, 2016, the affable Jude Nkama […]
By Zaira Cortés The threat of Immigration and Cus- toms Enforcement (ICE) raids in 2016 is not new to New York. According to the claims of activists and elected officials, the agency has had its sights set on courts and immigrant neighborhoods for more than a year, a practice not seen since the 1980s and […]
By Uchenna Ekwo November 19 The recent terrorist attacks in Paris; France has again brought the attention of the international community to the horrors of global terrorism. In five words, the world is on fire. In the past 15 years, the world witnessed horrific incidents across countries and continents notably the terrorist attacks in New […]
Politically, it was unwise and naive on the part of Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo to have chosen a relatively unknown Dr. Mahamadu Bawumiah, who on his own couldn’t have contributed an assured or guaranteed 10,000 votes from his political constituency as at 2008 (provided he even had a strong constituent base as at 2008) […]
By Christina Thornell, Nov. 25 Miriam Kone migrated from Mali in 1994 when she was 16-years-old. As a young girl in Mali she was expected to marry at age 13, but she had other plans. She convinced her mother, who had left Miriam to her grandmother’s care, to help her go to America. “You have […]
Mike Norman: Hey everybody! Mike Norman here for Contrarian Media where we like to bring you news and information that is free of mainstream media distortion and misinformation. You know me. Anyway, my guest today is Owusu Kizito, Dr. Owusu Kizito who is a financial and management consultant and the President of Investigroup Company. Dr. […]
Bizu Riki Mullu sets up a table covered with jewelry in a corner of the social hall of the Town & Village Synagogue in on East 14th street in Manhattan. In the opposite corner coffee is roasting over an open flame. Behind the podium at the front of the room is a line of colorful, […]
The AKAN people probably came from North Africa and very early on settled in the center of today’s Ghana. Around the middle of the 17th century, the AKAN were divided into a lot of small kingdoms, sometimes linked by alliances, sometimes subjected to bloody conflicts. A great man decided to unify this divided people; OSSEI […]
Lenny Bernstein, Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post A large segment of white middle-aged Americans has suffered a startling rise in its death rate since 1999, according to a review of statistics published Monday that shows a sharp reversal in decades of progress toward longer lives. The mortality rate for white men and women ages 45-54 […]
By Caelainn Hogan allAfrica.com On a long, barren road in northeastern Nigeria, Hafsat Mohammed, squeezed into a public minibus, saw the gunmen materialize from the bush like a mirage. The 33-year-old was on her way to Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State and the epicenter of the Boko Haram insurgency, when two Hilux pickups swerved […]