How The African Magazine came to life
BY KOSSI GBEDIGA The Fifth Bishop John T. Walker Memorial Dinner in honor of then-South Africa’s president, President Mandela, held on October 6, 1994 in a major Washington hotel … Read More
Category: About The African
The African, the premier African magazine published in the United States dating back to 1994, is the prime source of first-hand information about U.S.-Africa relations in the spheres of Politics, Business and Culture, and the historical and contemporary relations between Africa and black America, as well as the African Diaspora throughout the world.
Hail to “The African”
Hail to The African Just as Afro-Americans in the early forties cheered Negro Digest, The African was hailed by Africans and Americans cutting across socio-professional and racial backgrounds both in the … Read More
President George W. Bush writes to “The African”
In a heartwarming, surprise letter dated May 22, 2001, the President of the United States, George W. Bush, wrote to The African Magazine: Dear Soumanou Salifou, Thank you for your … Read More
“The African” receives a great review in The Library Journal, a major U.S. publication
The African magazine was pleasantly surprised with the laudatory review we got in the August 1999 issue of The Library Journal, highly-regarded U.S. publication. Below is the full text of … Read More
About The African
Just as John H. Johnson in November 1942 founded Negro Digest (which later became Ebony) to fill the information vacuum about Afro-Americans in the United States, Soumanou Salifou, who came from Benin, West … Read More