Obama’s first-term Africa policy
Jibril Ture U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s January 2012 whirlwind trip to four West African countries in two days – Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Togo and Cape Verde – followed …
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Reactions to President Obama’s meeting with four African presidents
By Lou Sifa U.S. President Barack Obama on July 29 hosted four French-speaking West African presidents at the White House who, he said, have “shown extraordinary persistence in wanting to …
As President Obama takes us to the mountaintop
By Sam Salifou Our country has had great and not-so-great presidents. Typical of our diverse society where out of many we make one, there is really no consensus over who … Read More
Challenges of democratic succession in Africa
BY LOU SIFA AND RAISSA GBEDJI On June 13, 2005, after a high-profile White House meeting with five Sub-Saharan African presidents, an upbeat President George W. Bush told a White …
What African heads of state expect from Obama’s second term
BY LISA FRENCH The re-election of President Obama was not greeted with the same excitement and the massive celebrations that followed his historic election four years ago, although what was …
What the African people expect from President Obama’s second term
In a continent-wide survey, The African’s contributors Ruth Aine Tindyebwa, Amadou Ba and Peter Mahundi put this question to Africans from all walks of life: What, specifically, do you think … Read More
From Pan-Africanism to O.A.U. to African Union
By John Mukendi Long before most African countries became independent in the early sixties, there was the Pan-African movement which sought to promote solidarity among Blacks worldwide, in a concerted …
President Alassane Ouattara’s express bio
BY JIBRIL TURE Alassane Ouattara was born in 1942 in Dimbokro, northern Cote d’Ivoire. He earned his High School Diploma at age 20 in Ouagadougou, the capital of then-Upper … Read More
Cote d’Ivoire’s new president Alassane Ouattara vows to heal a shattered nation
Newly inaugurated as president of Cote d’Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara, who was a victim of a poisonous law that barred him from power — and indeed from home for years — vows … Read More
How the whole world nearly failed to stop Gbagbo
By Jibril Ture Although he lost the Nov. 28 presidential election, former Cote d’Ivoire’s president, Laurent Gbagbo, desperately stuck to power and the whole world nearly failed to oust him. …