BY SUE B. SIMON Public perception of President Bush in Africa between 2003 (right after he went to war in Iraq quasi unilaterally) and 2008, grew exponentially positive, paradoxically at …
BY WILLIAM J. FIGHTER President Bush, whom few people thought would show any interest in Africa, has surprised many. With two trips to Africa (July 8-12, 2003 and February 16-21, …
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU Ambassador Vicki Huddleston, a career foreign service officer, is the United States Ambassador to Mali since November 2002. Prior to her arrival, she was Principal Officer of …
BY LOU SIFA African leaders in the media were outraged, just like the rest of the population, by the September 11 attacks against the United States. Many of these leaders, …
BY WILLIAM J. FIGHTER Horror, even greater than the September 11 attacks against the United States, is nothing new in Africa, a continent where 17 countries out of a total …
Kossi Gbediga The September 11 attacks against the United States clearly affected the entire planet in many ways. Dozens of daughters and sons of Africa also perished in the …
President George W. Bush’s fast-paced trip to five African countries this past July was greeted with indifference in some countries, with anti-Bush demonstrations in others, and got from so-so to …
BY USMAN MAMA Les than two years after President Clinton took office, his then-secretary of commerce, Ron Brown, addressed a Washington audience consisting primarily of American and African political and business … Read More
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU In an exclusive interview with The African a few months after the inception of the magazine, then-ambassador of the United States to Benin, Ruth A. Davis, discussed, …
By Daniel D. Dossou While the shortage of professional managers is considered the biggest impediment to economic performance in Africa, thousands of Africans are eagerly “marketing” their managerial “know how” … Read More
