Paris to host the Fourth Annual International Jazz Day
By Bill J. Fighter Jazz musicians from around the world, including Nigerian sensation Femi Kuti and South African Jazz legend Hugh Masekela, will gather in Paris on April 30th to …
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Remembering Malcolm X
By Ahmed A. Salifou In a post titled Malcolm X: Civil rights activist, Minister (1925-1965), Ron Daniels, president of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, states that Black …
Opening a new era in U.S.-Africa Relations
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU In my customary Publisher’s Statement that appeared in the August 2003 issue of this magazine that I titled “French-Speaking Africa and France: an odd relationship,” I wrote … Read More
Stop the controversy geared toward dividing the African American family
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
Why History matters to us and to you
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
My personal debt to Mandela
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
Hail to “The African”
Hail to The African Just as Afro-Americans in the early forties cheered Negro Digest, The African was hailed by Africans and Americans cutting across socio-professional and racial backgrounds both in the … Read More
President George W. Bush writes to “The African”
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
On the information hunt
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
Lagbaja, the entertainer without a face
BY JOHN MUKENDI It was one of the most exciting moments of my two-week stay this month in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire’s largest city. A local friend invited me to a … Read More