By Soumanou Salifou Thirty years ago this August 27, I landed at John F. Kennedy airport in New York as a prospective student in one of America’s most prestigious institutions … Read More
By Soumanou Salifou According to news reports based on interviews and recent statistics, anti-black sentiments have risen over the past four years despite the election of the first black president … Read More
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 …
Letter to Summit participants – August 1997 July 25, 1997 Dear Summit Participants, The African magazine is proud to be a part of the Fourth African-African American Summit, a laudable …
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 …
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 …
By Sam Salifou Our country has had great and not-so-great presidents. Typical of our diverse society where out of many we make one, there is really no consensus over who … Read More
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 African magazine was pleasantly surprised with the laudatory review we got in the August 1999 issue of The Library Journal, highly-regarded U.S. publication. Below is the full text of … Read More
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 …
