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."
NINA TOTENBERG The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday March 4, 2021 made it more difficult for undocumented immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for a long time to fight deportation. The court’s 5-to-3 ruling came in the case of a man who had lived in the U.S. for 25 years but who had used […]
MILDRED EUROPA TAYLOR Ghanaian filmmaker Leila Djansi is not impressed with the sequel to the 1988 classic ‘Coming to America’, describing it as mildly offensive. In a Facebook post, the American-based filmmaker said she was disappointed in some of the scenes from the Hollywood movie, saying they were discriminatory and disrespectful to Africa and its […]
CARLEY PETESCH Nearly 4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, the third and largest delivery so far to an African country by the global COVAX initiative, which was created to ensure that low- and middle-income countries have fair access to vaccines. The COVAX program shipped 3.94 million doses of […]
FREDDIE W. MENZ Multiple award-winning singer, songwriter and producer Stevie Wonder has announced his big decision to move to Ghana permanently. The Los Angeles resident made this announcement during an interview with Oprah Winfrey on her show “The Oprah Conversation” on Apple TV+. Mr Wonder, born Stevland Hardaway Judkins, has visited the country on numerous […]
New research published in Nature Food warns that heat stress in animals caused by rising temperatures and humidity will occur more frequently and for longer periods, impacting milk and meat productivity for dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep, goat, pigs and poultry across East Africa. Analysis of historical data from 1981-2010 shows that livestock have already […]
Ghana has become the first recipient of COVID-19 vaccine doses distributed by COVAX. Ghana took delivery of 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India. Key government and health officials as well as diplomats were at the Kotoka International Airport to receive the vaccines. A plane carrying 600,000 doses of […]
A Sermon by Dr. Kofi A. Boateng To answer the question whether racism is biblical, we shall take the question apart. We shall not engage in an intellectual exercise but empower ourselves to cause social change and mutual acceptance. May the Holy Spirit guide me to convey the essential message He wants to teach us. […]
Two UN agencies on Saturday called on the Somali government to commit to ending female genital mutilation (FGM) by passing a law that eliminates the practice. The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and the UN children’s fund (UNICEF) called on the government to revive efforts for passage of the FGM Bill which has been stuck in […]
Germany’s Africa policy was meant to promote investment and create prosperity for Africans. Then came COVID, and the economy plummeted. Now two key architects of the policy are leaving. DANIEL PELZ An important date was missing from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s calendar last year — the annual summit with African Heads of States and Germany’s […]
AYLIN WOODWARDFor millennia, ancient Egyptians were laid to rest in burial shafts under Saqqara, a city of the dead in the desert south of modern-day Cairo. But royal Egyptians like King Teti – a pharaoh who ruled more than 4,200 years ago – were buried in pyramids, along with the women they married. Archaeologists discovered […]