The African Magazine provides first-hand information about U.S.-Africa relations in politics, economy, and relations between Africa and black America, and the black Diaspora,
BY USMAN MAMA Picked in February as the 2017 winner of the Ibrahim Prize, the former president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, today received the prestigious award in Kigali, Rwanda. The … Read More
BY IDRISS CESAY Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a non-profit, international, non-governmental organization committed to the promotion and the defense of freedom of the press, raises concerns in its just-published 2018 … Read More
BY IDRISS CESAY Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the former wife of the late South African iconic leader Nelson Mandela, who died on 2 April at age 81, was laid to rest today, … Read More
BY COBUS VAN STADEN China’s decision to suspend presidential term limits is still reverberating around the world. The announcement, made after a vote by China’s parliament in March, prompted some commentators to … Read More
BY ALAN GREEN Currently on a state visit to China, Namibia’s president, Hage Geingob, refuted the widely-held view that China’s relations with African countries are tantamount to colonization. In the … Read More
BY JIBRIL TURE A high-profile meeting between Côte d’Ivoire’s president Alassane Dramane Ouattara and the country’s speaker of the parliament, Guillaume Soro, at the presidential palace in Abidjan on 3 … Read More
BY SUE B. SIMON The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP (the largest civil rights organization in the United States) on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the … Read More
BY ALAN GREEN For very many years, and especially over the past decade, China has been especially aggressive in its pursuit of trade and investment deals in Africa, and has … Read More
BY WILLIAM J. FIGHTER Worldwide approval of the United States role has slipped to a new low, a Gallup poll published today says. U.S. approval rate is now below that … Read More
BY JIBRIL TURE The dominant sentiment that came out of the meeting of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs’ sub-committee on Africa held on Tuesday under the title “The … Read More
