Pushing Donald Trump back in his hole
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU Ever since our democracy tripped on 9 November 2016 and a racist, insecure, vulgar and ignorant bigot, after bleeding from self-inflicted wounds of proven women’s groping and … Read More
Category: Opinions
The African magazine is dedicated to publishing the opinions of African, African American and American opinion leaders about politics, business, culture, and entertainment.
Trump’s ‘America first’ trade policy ignores key lesson from Great Depression
BY CHARLES HANKLA President Donald Trump declared his nearly two-week trip through Asia “tremendously successful,” but economic history should make us more skeptical. During the trip, the president continued to promote his … Read More
Benin’s regrettable absence from the global communication
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU I was inspired the following remarks by an article published in the issue #6805 of the daily Beninese newspaper La Nation dated Monday, 21 July, an article … Read More
Why the US shouldn’t start a trade war with China
BY GREG WRIGHT The U.S. and China seem to be on the verge of a costly trade war. Most recently, the Trump administration announced that Chinese shipments of aluminum foil will … Read More
Look to China for the main beneficiary of America’s likely retreat from Africa
BY PETER VALE Anti-terrorism and transactional relationships are likely to be the main features of US President Donald Trump’s Africa policy. But if Trump’s proposed cuts to the state department … Read More
Macron’s former African schoolmate clobbers him over racist remarks
BY JOEL TEUBISSI NOUTSA In an open letter to French president Emmanuel Macron, a Cameroonian cadre who attended the same elite French school of public administration as the president, Ecole … Read More
Trump’s US still lacks an Africa policy – but that might be about to change
BY STEPHEN CHAN When Donald Trump was elected, almost no one in the US was thinking about Africa. People knew the swingeing State Department and foreign aid cuts the new … Read More
Africa is high on the G20 summit agenda. But will Trump do what thwart progress?
BY JOHN J. TREMLAU When G20 leaders meet in Hamburg in early July they face a problem not on their formal agenda: how to work around Donald Trump. The US president disdains … Read More
Responding to Trump’s ‘discoarse’? An African humanist philosophy may be the way
BY LEYLA TAVERNARO-HAIDARIAN US President Donald Trump is easily the most controversial person on Twitter. He thrives on the medium and has been exploiting it effectively. The tone of many of Trump’s … Read More
A salute to diversity’s promotion in America
BY CARMEN VIDJANGNI Did you say president? Yes, president of the Harvard Law Review, a prestigious academic publication in this elite school ranked as the world’s sixth university in one … Read More