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."
Ukachi Uwadinobi CARLY FIORINA, former CEO of Hewlett Packard and a contender for the GOP primary race for nomination, had a sterling performance in last Thursday’s July 6 first GOP debate among the bottom seven who squared off at the (5 – 6) p.m. time slot before the prime time debate that followed at 9 […]
By Ukachi Uwadinobi FOR A SHORT WHILE, the early morning downpour had threatened to disrupt the highly celebrated annual Harlem Book Fair. Luckily the rain didn’t last long and as it fizzled out, the dark blue image of the sky soon took on a brighter outlook thanks to the emerging rays of the sun. The […]
Nana Asirifi Twereboo, Nkosuohene (Chief of Development/Progress) of Akyem Asafo, has gone to his ancestral village. The passing occurred July 4 at the Harlem Hospital, New York. Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in December 24 1943, Nana Asirifi Twereboo (nee Joseph Sargent) graduated from Atlantic City High School in 1962. As a young man […]
by Kwesi Biney If we let this Talensi situation become the norm, what will be the point? Politics of stealing, bribery, violence will lead to more poverty and despair in a nation with no excuse not to be prosperous. What a shame! (Papa Kwesi Nduom). A shame indeed it is and has been over the […]
by Dr. Andrew Baddoo Air travel is a trying ordeal at best—long lines, cramped seats, tiny bathrooms. More people are traveling, using air travel as a means to get to their destination quickly. The utilization of air travel brings forth hazards like deep vein thrombosis (DVT), and pulmonary embolism (PE) if preventable measures are not […]
by Dr. E. Obiri Addo, Accra-Ghana “On March 6, 1957, Ghana’s first president, Osaagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah declared that `Ghana, our beloved country is free forever!’That “freedom”, however, was not necessarily attained with the declaration; it is an ongoing business; every generation must continue the quest for freedom.” Nana Susubribi Krobea Asante, Paramount chief of […]
Professor E. Obiri Addo, a faculty member at Drew University in Madison, NJ, has been invited to join the “New Jersey STEP” faculty beginning this summer. He will teach an African-American history course, “African Origins to 1877”. The New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons (NJ-STEP) program is an association of higher education institutions […]
By Professor Opoku Asare “Mu kala kintwadi ya tubu i mu zinga” (Bakongo proverb) The man in touch with his origins is a man who will never die. We tend to ignore our history and wisdom heritage as a esult of the relentless indoctrination by others and our own ignorance of the African past and […]
by Jeff Schmitt, June 10, 2015 University of Cambridge Judge Business School After graduating among the top students at Columbia University and working as an analyst at JPMorgan Chase, Akosua Ayim hopped the pond for the one-year MBA program at the Judge Business School. There, she served in a variety of roles, including co-chair of […]
DALLAS, June 15, 2015 MoneyGram International (NASDAQ: MGI), a provider of innovative money transfer services, recently hosted members of Banque Gabonaise de Developpement (BGD), a leading commercial bank headquartered in Gabon, Central Africa. Members of the BGD team, including CEO Rodger Owono and General Manager Joel Damas, met with Senior Executives at MoneyGram’s global headquarters […]