Cana, a neglected piece of Black History
BY USMAN MAMA PHOTOGRAPHY BY ARSENE KASSEGNE Cana, today a regular village with a population of ten thousand people located on both sides of the Benin-Niger interstate highway 87 miles … Read More
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CAR President Touadéra’s all-out efforts to save his shattered nation
BY ALAN GREEN International reporting about the Central African Republic (CAR) focuses heavily on the incessant violent clashes between the country’s armed Muslim and Christian factions, with the civilian population … Read More
President Trump? The gods must be crazy!
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU Founder & Publisher of “The African” Bleeding heavily everywhere from self-inflicted wounds of proven women’s groping and blatant racist statements, and limping all the way to the … Read More
Africans react to Trump’s election
BY JIBRIL TURE In Africa where former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are very popular, Donald Trump’s upset victory came as a shock. Bitter disappointment … Read More
Why the surge of anti-black racism during Obama’s presidency?
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU The second trending item on Yahoo! for a good part of the day on October 24th, 2012—that is 12 days before the November 6th, 2012 U.S. presidential …
Sadly, gender equality has taken the back seat in America
BY CARMEN SABINE VIDJANGNI An Acounting auditor At last gone are the passions. By calling Donald Trump last night to concede defeat, Hillary Clinton demonstrated the triumph of democracy. Once … Read More
Africa is not on the top priority of US list
BY SAMUEL MATHEY International consultant and professor of economics I am of those believing the three paradigms of the US president being elected for the American people’s best interests (not to … Read More
Africa’s stagnation highlighted in a high-profile report
BY ALAN GREEN Titled “A decade of African Governance,” the tenth Ibrahim Index of African Governane (IIAG) was released in London Monday. The IIAG, which measures the quality of governance … Read More
America’s legendary ignorance about Africa persists
BY JULIUS AMIN Fifty six years ago, John F. Kennedy made 479 references to Africa during the US presidential campaign. He observed that America had lost ground on the continent … Read More
Poverty down in select African countries thanks to agricultural growth
BY ALAN GREEN In a report released Tuesday, September 6, in Nairobi, Kenya, a non-governmental organization named the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, AGRA, states that African countries … Read More