Cuisine: Palaver Sauce
Palaver sauce A dish from Ghana by Ghanaian chef Nana So good when one wife cooks it, it makes the other wives jealous! Ingredients 2 pounds fresh spinach 1 … Read More
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Obama’s Africa diplomacy during the first term
Security, democracy and swipes at China’s influence in Africa were the three main objectives of Obama’s Africa policy during the first term. BY JUBRIL TURE U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s …
Meet Rama Yade, a Senegalese-born turned French political icon
By Sidi Dia and Jean DeColi She is provocatively beautiful. She is black, smart, tough, ambitious, bluntly outspoken and a media magnet. In February 2009, she was voted the most …
How Africa can teach America a lesson in election politics
When Washington, D.C. mayor Vincent C. Gray and the city’s police chief, Cathy L. Lanier, were asked on 31 October during a weekly radio program titled “Ask the mayor” broadcast … Read More
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
What President Obama will do for Africa
By Soumanou Salifou In light of President George W. Bush’s positive legacy to Africa, which was unexpected of a (white) Republican president with no emotional ties to Africa, we can …
Lessons Obama has taught us
By Gustave Gazard When I arrived at my office on November 5 at 8 in the morning (which was late in the night in Atlanta, Georgia), I was greeted with …
African American brothers’ broken promises
By Soumanou Salifou “Welcome Back to Africa, Marion Barry. Tell other African Americans that their motherland is waiting for them.” Thatwas the inscription on justone of many colorfulbanners welcoming formerWashington, D.C. …
Dr. King’s legacy to Africa
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversarsy of the 1963 March on Washington led by the late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., we have put this question to Africans across the …
American women’s double standard
By Soumanou Salifou The student advisor at the American embassy back home in Africa had warned me that I would have to adjust to American culture on and off campus. … Read More