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."
by Kofi Ayim Historically, developed civilizations and nations have been built through migrants. Ancient Egypt was great built by migrants. Western Europe was built mainly by migrants from Africa and other places. The U. S. is the most powerful nation in the world because of collective mosaic of immigrant talents. Any nation that attempts to […]
Whether by design or default, Europeans created artificial boundaries in Africa between homogeneous groups. So much so that most African countries have no national language, having adopted foreign languages as lingua franca. Now, a traditional ruler in Ghana has questioned the wisdom of nation building on a borrowed language. A traditional ruler at Nkyinkyin Grabodo […]
by Ruth Michaelson Despite the announcement by 82-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika that he will step down after having been in power for 20 years, Algerians have continued their protests, now in its seventh successive week. Thousands have taken to the streets of the Algerian capital Algiers, demanding a complete overhaul of the country’s political structure. […]
by Henry Samuel French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed researchers to carry out a two-year investigation into the role of the French army in the Rwandan genocide that is still a source of tension between Paris and Kigali 25 years later. President Emmanuel Macron has pledged to shed unprecedented light on France’s murky role in […]
Christian doctrine calls for giving back to the community. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has committed to a project akin to the Akan proverbial SANKOFA to help African Americans reconnect to their ancestral roots. Meanwhile, one-man African megachurches who claim a God-given call to rake in thousands of tax-free dollars abound throughout […]
LOVA RABARY The World Health Organization says that an epidemic of measles in Madagascar has caused more than 900 deaths. According to WHO figures, over 68,000 cases were reported in which 553 deaths were confirmed and 373 suspected from measles since the outbreak began in September. Madagascar has launched a nationwide campaign to try to […]
Like the tsetse fly, Western Europe and the U.S. have been sucking the lifeline off Africa since slavery time. From Cecil Rhodes who thought he owned Zimbabwe and named it after himself – Rhodesia – to King Leopold II whose atrocities to the people of Congo is on par with Adolf Hitler, most Western countries […]
ABDI LATIF DAHIR A recent ruling by a three-judge court in the Netherlands has struck down a 2003 patent led by Dutchman Jans Roosjen as the inventor of teff flour, used in making such Ethiopian staples as injera flatbread. Teff is a grain variety so old that its original cultivation date is lost to history […]
The Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, Luigi Di Maio, has left little doubt on what he feels is the primary cause of African migrant crisis that Europe is faced with. Di Maio called upon the European Union to sanction countries such as France that the prime minister feels is manipulating the economies of 14 African […]
DR RAPHAEL ERNEST GRAIL ARMATTOE: GHANAIAN AND CELEBRATED AFRICAN MEDICAL PRACTITIONER WHO WAS ONE-TIME NOMINEE FOR NOBLE PEACE PRIZE NOMINEE FOR MEDICINE AND PHYSIOLOGY Raphael Ernest Grail Armattoe (12 August 1913 – 22 December 1953) was a man of many talents – a renowned medical doctor, anthropologist, writer of prose and poetry, one-time Nobel Prize […]