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."
Not since the 15th century has a pope resigned his throne. Speculation abounds regarding the pope’s unusual decision. Was it the sex-abuse scandal? Pope Benedict XVI stunned the Roman Catholic Church — and the world — with his announcement that he would turn in his scepter, effective February 28. To find a precedent for […]
By Luke Lythgoe In the wake of Pope Benedict XVI’s shock resignation, bookmakers and international media alike are heralding the prospect of Rome’s first black African pontiff. With the shock resignation this morning of Pope Benedict XVI, the international media has gone into overdrive in an attempt to predict the next spiritual leader of the […]
By Uchenna Ekwo In A Culture of Secrecy: The Government Versus the People’s Right to Know, Athan G. Theoharis examined the secrecy perpetrated by successive US administrations of Nixon, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. Contributing scholars, journalists, and attorneys reviewed different policies of previous US governments and brought to focus the constant conflict between the public’s […]
By VICTOR OKWARO Aaah, December in Nairobi is the winter bunner season! This is the time when hundreds upon thousands of our fellow Kenyans from the Diaspora come back home for the holidays! This past December was no different. The diasporas came with plenty of dollars, pounds or Euro’s, ready to spend at any provocation, […]
By Steve Maggi “14” screamed one. “15”, screamed another, “Buzz!!” screamed the third, and then the fourth paused and paused. “Umm, 15?” “Out” I screamed, and everyone but the last one to speak cheered loudly. Here I was in front of a 5th grade class of a dozen students or so, teaching math by playing […]
By Uchenna Ekwo With his re-election, President Barack Obama becomes the third Democratic president to win a second term since the past 100 years. The other two are Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton. The triumph of President Obama shares similar historical significance with FDR in relation to being re-elected with high unemployment rate in […]
By Godfried Ebo Arthur Elections are always about the vision and the future direction of a country. Moreover, when there is an incumbent such as the situation we have now, the dynamics change completely. The focus then shifts to the record of the sitting president and his administration; it in effect becomes a referendum on […]
19 November 2012 President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday described as premature and diversionary efforts to make him voice out his political plans after the end of his first term in office in 2015. Jonathan, fielding questions from a panel of editors during a presidential media chat monitored on Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), however, promised to […]
The city of Newark on Thursday, October 25 hosted the Rwandan community at a flag raising ceremony held at Newark City hall. Rwanda suffered a bitter civil war in 1994 that saw more than half a million people dead. Essentially, the 1994 war in Rwanda was directed against the Tutsi community considered as the minority […]
By Steve Maggi As an expert on immigration law, I get asked many questions about immigration policy and laws, and now, as November 6th looms on the horizon, almost all questions have to do with what the direction of U.S. immigration policy will be, depending on who wins, and how that will affect foreign nationals […]