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."
To enter the Museum of the Bamoun Kings in western Cameroon, you have to pass under the fangs of a gigantic two-headed snake — the highlight of an imposing coat of arms of one of the oldest kingdoms in sub-Saharan Africa. Thousands of Cameroonians gathered in the royal palace square in Foumban on Saturday April […]
Nigeria recorded 1,742 suspected meningitis cases, including 101 confirmed cases and 153 deaths in seven states between 1 October 2023 and 11 March. MARIAM ILEYEMI Nigeria has become the first country in the world to roll out a new vaccine- Men5CV, to protect people against five strains of the meningococcus bacteria. The new vaccine […]
KOFI AYIM A cross section of African Americans is livid at the commercialization of some portions of the Elmina Castle in Ghana. They contend that grounds of slave dungeons in Africa and elsewhere should be maintained as sacred for historical and posterity purposes, devoid of money-making activities. In an interview, Professor James Small, a conspicuous […]
The socioeconomic development of a country is anchored on the basic tenets of its culture. Once the tenets start to give way, the center cannot hold, and the country assumes culturally haywire tendencies. Its people become lost for lack of cultural direction. Japan, China, and a host of other countries have developed, not through any […]
AGGREY MUTAMBOEthiopia has opted to take back thousands of its nationals who had been living in squalid conditions in Saudi Arabia. The decision was announced late last month in Addis Ababa but would actually begin in early April, targeting some 70,000 Ethiopians.It may be the noblest thing to do in rescuing its stranded citizens, but […]
JAHD KHALIL Brigitte Combs lives outside of Richmond and said she came to the Virginia state capitol when she heard legislators were discussing the issue of minors and forced marriage. Taking a deep breath, she told them that decades ago in Texas she had been married at 15 years old to a 37-year-old man. “I […]
As the war in Sudan enters its second year next month, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on Monday, March 18 warned of a staggering toll of the crisis on children, with an estimated 24 million teetering on the brink of a “generational catastrophe”. Since the conflict erupted in April 2023, […]
U.S. Air Force veteran is challenging Bill Pascrell in NJ-9 DAVID WILDSTEIN Billy Prempeh crushed a perennial candidate March 19 to capture the Bergen County Republican organization line, giving him a clear path for a rematch with Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-Paterson) in New Jersey’s 9th district. Prempeh won the Bergen GOP convention by a more […]
Mr. Gething, 50, was narrowly elected leader of Wales’s governing Labor Party, and then was elected first minister by the Senedd, or Welsh Parliament. SOPAN DEB Vaughan Gething on Thursday March 21 became the first Black person to lead a national government in Europe, a day after he was elected the first minister of Wales. […]
KOFI AYIM Western influences and attempt to fuse or reconcile such influences with longstanding traditions have created many quandaries for today’s Akan and other Africans. Marriage is one area rife with such quandaries. Just as a Western or Caucasian marriage (wedding) is not part of Akan or African culture, so is it that a married […]