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 …
Open letter to African heads of state – September 2001 By Soumanou Salifou Your Excellencies, We are honored to welcome you to the United States to attend the Third U.S.-Africa …
BY JEAN DECOLI U.S. President Barack Obama on July 29 hosted four French-speaking West African presidents at the White House who, he said, have “shown extraordinary persistence in wanting …
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. …
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
