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."
CHRISTIAN AKORLIE Ghana, one of West Africa’s largest economies, will hold formal talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on a support package, the government said on Friday, July 1 after hundreds took to the streets to protest against mounting hardship. The cabinet gave its support for the decision at a meeting on Thursday, following […]
As a prince, he’s among a select few who are traditionally entitled to wear an eye-catching fabric of vivid indigo with intricate white patterns. “It’s an ndop, not everyone can wear it,” he said with pride, to the beat of tam-tam drums and the balafon, a type of xylophone, in the western town of Batie. […]
VICTOR MOTURI Francis Kamau boasts a large farm in the beautiful Laikipia County plains in Kenya. Each year as he prepares his land for the next crop season, a nagging question refuses to leave his mind: “Will my crop survive an elephant attack?” Kamau, who lives in Mathira village near the Laikipia west conservancy, keeps […]
BUSANI BAFANA In early June 2022, more than 30 people from the Maasai community in the Loliondo division in Tanzania’s northern Ngorongoro District were reportedly injured, and one person died following clashes with security forces over the demarcation of their ancestral lands for a new game reserve. According to human rights organizations, the Maasai community […]
Objects from Berlin’s Ethnological Museum collection will be presented to the Namibian public. But while their origins are being studied, why is this return only a loan? JASKO RUST A huge mural in Windhoek’s Independence Memorial Museum, depicting members of the Namibian People’s Liberation Army (PLAN) blowing their horns as they attack the colonial masters’ […]
Global food protectionism is now in full swing. After India, major EU food exporting nations such as Hungary have halted the export of certain crops. Many African countries are also banning the export of produce. ISAAC MUGABI Ghana and Uganda are among several African countries banning the export of grains and other farm produce, with […]
West African leaders meeting in Accra have decided to uphold sanctions against Mali, along with the suspension of Burkina Faso and Guinea from the bloc. The measures could be lifted if the military rulers in all three countries speed up plans for a return to civilian rule. Sunday’s – June 5 – comment came a […]
ISABEL MALSANG As Europe struggles to decarbonize its economy and wean itself off Russian oil and gas, one of the world’s sunniest and most arid nations is pitching itself to the continent as an answer to its problems. A delegation from sub-Saharan Africa’s driest country has been touring Europe to tout their nation as a […]
FAUSTINE NGILA When Ethiopia announced on May 9 that it was launching trials for its first 5G mobile network in its capital, it joined more than a dozen African countries that are either testing or have rolled out the next-gen network. But just as for its 5G peers, the journey isn’t going to be smooth. […]
DOMINIC OMONDI Kenya is now desperately shopping for maize from all corners of the world as its silos run out of this critical grain. Bad weather, coupled with global factors such as the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the lingering effects of Covid-19, have conspired to create a maize shortage in the country, with many families finding […]