Why the surge of anti-black racism during Obama’s presidency
BY JOYCE ZIA-ANDERSON AND JOHN KWAME It was widely believed that the powerful symbolism of the election of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States …
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The African woman today
BY NICOLE C. HOMES Despite unquestionable recent progress, the African woman still faces serious challenges that she tries to address on a daily basis. Barely two decades ago, in a …
As Africa scrambles to democratize
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU When the Central African Republic’s rebels with the beautiful name Séléka toppled the country’s president, François Bozizé, on March 24, 2013, they did nothing but have Bozizé …
Equatorial Guinea’s president, Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, receives honorary degrees
By Soumanou Salifou In a letter dated June 16, 2013 addressed to the president of Equatorial Guinea, Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the rector of the Ural State University of Economics …
Equatorial Guinea on the world’s stage
By Lou Sifa Since the whole world recognized the government ushered in in 1ate 1979 by then-young officer Teodoro Obiang Nguema who led the efforts that ended the cruel …
The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU While on the reporting trail in Africa in 2003, we came across this unique group of expatriate African Americans who share some core cultural values with Africans. …
Introducing The Benin National Council of Shippers
SPONSORED MATERIAL The Benin National Council of Shippers is a commercial, state-owned company with financial autonomy. It was founded on May 25, 1983. Its main mission is to serve the …
As the contemporary African woman breaks the glass ceiling
BY MODUPE ABIOLA The sub-Saharan African population is composed of about fifty percent of men and fifty percent of women; but men, up to a decade ago, overwhelmingly dominated the …
The African woman today
By Nicole C. Homes Despite unquestionable recent progress, the African woman still faces serious challenges that she tries to address on a daily basis. Barely two decades ago, in a …
Timbuktu in the eye of an American visitor
By Mike Theiler Timbuktu. For centuries it’s been a mystical name that’s beckoned travelers like a Saharan mirage. Located in the southern Sahara Desert in today’s Mali, near the northern-most …