Homecoming
Homecoming – July 1995 When Captain Michael Conrardy gently landed his Airbus A-310 on the runway of Dakar Airport at exactly 5:30 p.m. several Sundays ago, thus bringing Sabena flight 534 …
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We will tell own story
PUBLISHED IN ISSUE VOL. I, ISSUE 1 We will tell our own story– November 1994 For too long, Africans living in the United States have let the American media alone …
When Obama hosts four African heads state
BY JEAN DECOLI U.S. President Barack Obama on July 29 hosted four French-speaking West African presidents at the White House who, he said, have “shown extraordinary persistence in wanting …
Obama’s Africa diplomacy during the first term
Security, democracy and swipes at China’s influence in Africa were the three main objectives of Obama’s Africa policy during the first term. BY JUBRIL TURE U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s …
Meet Rama Yade, a Senegalese-born turned French political icon
By Sidi Dia and Jean DeColi She is provocatively beautiful. She is black, smart, tough, ambitious, bluntly outspoken and a media magnet. In February 2009, she was voted the most …
What President Obama will do for Africa
By Soumanou Salifou In light of President George W. Bush’s positive legacy to Africa, which was unexpected of a (white) Republican president with no emotional ties to Africa, we can …
Lessons Obama has taught us
By Gustave Gazard When I arrived at my office on November 5 at 8 in the morning (which was late in the night in Atlanta, Georgia), I was greeted with …
African American brothers’ broken promises
By Soumanou Salifou “Welcome Back to Africa, Marion Barry. Tell other African Americans that their motherland is waiting for them.” Thatwas the inscription on justone of many colorfulbanners welcoming formerWashington, D.C. …
Dr. King’s legacy to Africa
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversarsy of the 1963 March on Washington led by the late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., we have put this question to Africans across the …
The breathtaking journey of the first “African” president of the United States
BY JEAN DECOLI “If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our …