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 SOUMANOU SALIFOU The recent abrupt two-month suspension of Cotonou mayor Lehady Soglo, followed, five days later, by his outright removal from office, has a lot—but not everything—to do with … Read More
BY LOU SIFA A group of one thousand young leaders from 48 Sub-Saharan African countries met in Washington, D.C. Last week in the context of the 2017 Mandela Washington Fellowship … Read More
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU The two-month suspension of Cotonou mayor Lehady Soglo due to “grave faults” moments after he was audited on Friday by his superior, the “prefet” of the Littoral … Read More
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
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
BY LOU SIFA President Patrice Talon of Benin attended mass this Sunday morning at Eglise Notre Dame des Apotres in Cotonou, an event that drew a crowd of onlookers. A … Read More
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
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU President Patrice Talon of Benin returned home Sunday after a lengthy, 24-day stay in France for medical treatment that triggered an explosion of vicious attacks on him … Read More
BY JIBRIL TURE Bringing back peace in the war-torn Central African Republic was the number one priority of presidential candidate Faustin-Archange Touadera during the hard-fought campaign that led to his … Read More
BY ALAN GREEN The Trump administration is poised to sell 12 Super Tucano aircraft worth almost $600 million to Nigeria in support of the Buhari government’s fight against the terrorist … Read More
