Homecoming
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 …
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We will tell own story
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 …
How African soccer players dazzle Europe
BY EBOW GODWIN AND JAMES ASUKA The amazing prolific exploits of superstar Samuel Eto’o at Inter Milan and Barcelona succinctly summarize how the creativity, skills and talents of African soccer mega-stars have … Read More
African American brothers’ broken promises
By Soumanou Salifou “Welcome Back to Africa, Marion Barry. Tell other African Americans that their motherland is waiting for them.” Thatwas the inscription on justone of many colorfulbanners welcoming formerWashington, D.C. …
Dr. King’s legacy to Africa
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 …
American women’s double standard
By Soumanou Salifou The student advisor at the American embassy back home in Africa had warned me that I would have to adjust to American culture on and off campus. … Read More
Cultural gap
My 13-year old son came home from school at 3 o’clock one rainy afternoon and realized that he had left his key in his locker at school. He called me … Read More
An African in Paris
By Soumanou Salifou An airline employee’s incompetence (or ignorance) caused me to spend one day and one night in Paris during my latest trip back from Africa to the United … Read More
“The African” receives a great review in The Library Journal, a major U.S. publication
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
About The African
Just as John H. Johnson in November 1942 founded Negro Digest (which later became Ebony) to fill the information vacuum about Afro-Americans in the United States, Soumanou Salifou, who came from Benin, West … Read More