BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU In an exclusive interview with The African a few months after the inception of the magazine, then-ambassador of the United States to Benin, Ruth A. Davis, discussed, …
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
Africa’s half-full democracy bottle – August 2011 By Soumanou Salifou It looks like the outside world exaggerates the democratic progress in Africa. On June 13, 2005, after a high-profile meeting …
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 …
French-Speaking Africa and France: an odd relationship – August 2003 By Soumanou Salifou In today’s unipolar world dominated by the United States, French-speaking African leaders’ allegiance to France, a second-class …
Thick is blood – October 2002 By Soumanou Salifou Brazil’s victory over Germany (2-0) during the final game of the XVII World Soccer Cup hosted by South Korea and Japan …
America and Europe vs. Africa: Why the fuss about Mugabe’s re-election? – March 2002 By Soumanou Salifou The United States, Canada and Europe unequivocally rejected the results of the March …
The New U.S.-Africa relations – December 2001 By Soumanou Salifou If Africans could vote for the U.S. president, they would have overwhelmingly voted for the Democratic candidate Al Gore last …
ECOWAS First Lady’s Africa Peace Mission: Can women do it? – March 1997 Concurrently with the 19th summit meeting of the heads of state and government of the Economic Community …
Côte d’Ivoire, a West African success story – March 1996 When Ivorian President Félix Houphouet-Boigny died in December 1993, observers of West African politics talked of the death of a giant. …
