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 JIBRIL TURE Updated on Monday, 1 April at 10 a.m. The painful execution of the mandate the speaker of the Beninese parliament, Adrien Houngbedji, received from President Patrice Talon … Read More
BY NAMORY DOSSO Guillaume Soro, who only several weeks ago resigned from his position of speaker of the Ivorian parliament, is laying the foundation for his likely bid for the … Read More
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU The small French-speaking West African nation of Benin was first labeled in 1990 ‘the lab of African democracy,’ then later referred to as ‘the flagship of democracy … Read More
BY MARA LEICHTMAN Senegal’s elections have been peaceful and the incumbent president, Macky Sall, has been reelected. For many this comes as no surprise. Senegal has long been a stable democracy … Read More
BY JULIAN MAXWELL HAYTER Virginia is home to America’s original contradiction – the peculiar juxtaposition of slavery and freedom. The recent “blue-ing” of Virginia has obscured a sobering political reality: Racial … Read More
BY ANDREA BAGHO Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the former wife of former South Africa’s president Nelson Mandela, was one of the most visible political activists in South Africa during the repressive racist … Read More
BY SUE B. SIMON Rosine Vieyra Soglo, the former first lady of Benin (1991 to 1996), a high-power woman affectionately called Mama by most people, has been a key player … Read More
BY LISA LEOPOLD I’m sorry.” These two words may seem simple, but the ability to express them when you’re in the wrong is anything but – particularly for those in … Read More
BY IDRISS KONE Two years after former Cote d’Ivoire’s president Laurent Gbagbo went on trial for alleged crimes against humanity, the Hague-based International Criminal Court, ICC, today freed the former … Read More
BY LOU SIFA Felix Thsisekedi, 55, the son of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s historical opposition leader, Etienne Thsisekedi, today succeeded the country’s president of 18 years, Joseph Kabila, after … Read More
