BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU Ambassador Vicki Huddleston, a career foreign service officer, is the United States Ambassador to Mali since November 2002. Prior to her arrival, she was Principal Officer of …
BY LOU SIFA African leaders in the media were outraged, just like the rest of the population, by the September 11 attacks against the United States. Many of these leaders, …
BY WILLIAM J. FIGHTER Horror, even greater than the September 11 attacks against the United States, is nothing new in Africa, a continent where 17 countries out of a total …
Kossi Gbediga The September 11 attacks against the United States clearly affected the entire planet in many ways. Dozens of daughters and sons of Africa also perished in the …
President George W. Bush’s fast-paced trip to five African countries this past July was greeted with indifference in some countries, with anti-Bush demonstrations in others, and got from so-so to …
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU In an exclusive interview with The African a few months after the inception of the magazine, then-ambassador of the United States to Benin, Ruth A. Davis, discussed, …
Africa’s half-full democracy bottle – August 2011 By Soumanou Salifou It looks like the outside world exaggerates the democratic progress in Africa. On June 13, 2005, after a high-profile meeting …
Tension in Obama’s family – June 2011 By Soumanou Salifou President Obama is in trouble with the black branch of his family – voting African Americans and African-born Blacks on …
Open letter to President Obama – February 2009 By Soumanou Salifou Like many other children of the baby boom generation, and knowing the America that I have learned to know …
One Love – February 2004 By Soumanou Salifou In an appeal to black people all over the world, Bob Marley sings in his hit One Love/People Get Ready: “One love, one …
