By Soumanou Salifou The stunning admission of Kwasi Enin, a 17-year-old student of Ghanaian origin who attends William Floyd High School – a public school on Long Island’s south shore … Read More
BY BILL J. FIGHTER The Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) was founded in 1993 in Washington. David H. Miller, who served as executive director of CCA from the organization’s … Read More
By Soumanou Salifou It’s Black History Month again, and we are happy to bring you a series of original features about the relations between Africans and African Americans dating back … Read More
By Soumanou Salifou In the African culture in which I was born, raised and nurtured, the death of a person, regardless of his/her age, is always a sad occurrence. Like … Read More
BY KOSSI GBEDIGA The Fifth Bishop John T. Walker Memorial Dinner in honor of then-South Africa’s president, President Mandela, held on October 6, 1994 in a major Washington hotel … Read More
In a heartwarming, surprise letter dated May 22, 2001, the President of the United States, George W. Bush, wrote to The African Magazine: Dear Soumanou Salifou, Thank you for your … Read More
BY JIBRIL TURE Alassane Ouattara was born in 1942 in Dimbokro, northern Cote d’Ivoire. He earned his High School Diploma at age 20 in Ouagadougou, the capital of then-Upper … Read More
Laurent Gbagbo, who was a lightweight politician until October 2000, owes his rise to the presidency that year to a man that some in Cote d’Ivoire believe has died in …
By Soumanou Salifou It was Saturday mid-afternoon, but it looked quite like a weekday at President Laurent Gbagbo’s office. Visitors, including some foreigners like me, were waiting patiently to … Read More
For almost two decades, The African has published hundreds of first-hand articles based, primarily, on on-the-field interviews with African and American political and business leaders, intellectuals, entertainers, artists and many … Read More
