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Could Africa Host The 2030 World Cup?

Could Africa Host The 2030 World Cup?

It was a blow to African football fans this past summer when North America won its bid to host the 2026 World Cup. The...
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Dust from Africa makes America’s Sky Hazy: What it Means for You

How far do you think can sands go? Well, it turns out, it can even travel hundreds of thousands of miles easily. Sands from...
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Over 150 High-Level Speakers to Grace the Africa Trade & Investment Global Summit (ATIGS) 2018 in Washington, D.C

Business leaders and prominent personalities are expected to speak at the Africa Trade & Investment Global Summit (ATIGS) 2018 to be held on June...
New York Forum Africa 2013: The ICC, judicial colonialism in Africa?

New York Forum Africa 2013: The ICC, judicial colonialism in Africa?

At a debate on "independence" in Africa during the second edition of the New York Forum Africa 2013 in Libreville, Gabon, the Rwandan minister...
Kenya’s Favorite Son Does It Again

Kenya’s Favorite Son Does It Again

In the dead of night, residents of Kogelo sat wrapped in blankets, staring anxiously at the only big screen in Obama’s ancestral home. They...
Tunisia: hundreds of U.S. citizens evacuated from Tunis

Tunisia: hundreds of U.S. citizens evacuated from Tunis

The United States began evacuating their nationals living in Tunis, the Tunisian capital. The U.S. Embassy has been targeted by protesters on Friday opposed...
Dr. Landry Signé bestowed the Outstanding Visionary Leadership Award

Dr. Landry Signé bestowed the Outstanding Visionary Leadership Award

On Saturday, May 19, 2012, Dr. Landry Signé was bestowed the Outstanding Visionary Leadership Award by The African Network (TAN), a Silicon Valley based...
African Farmers are Desperate for Change

African Farmers are Desperate for Change

The use of GM (genetically modified) food crops is a highly emotive issue. What should influence the debate between those who support these developments...
The Syndrome of the Talkative in African Politics

The Syndrome of the Talkative in African Politics

19th Century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche advanced a dualistic view of the human condition by arguing that mankind was endowed with two types of...
The Last Straw (Part 2)

The Last Straw (Part 2)

“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.”-Maureen Dowd, American author and columnist. The other day...
The Last Straw

The Last Straw

Everyone knew that it would happen sooner or later, that despite my seemingly unshakeable optimism and avowed faith in Ghana’s ability to become an...
Somalia: Rebuilding a stateless country’s piracy-driven economy

Somalia: Rebuilding a stateless country’s piracy-driven economy

Maritime piracy costs the global economy between $7 billion and $12 billion annually, and since January 2010 pirates working from ports in Somalia have...
US-Nigeria: ‘Trajectory of bad elections’ should be checked

US-Nigeria: ‘Trajectory of bad elections’ should be checked

The top U.S. diplomat to Africa urged Nigerians to demonstrate their ability to hold fair and democratic elections as the country prepares for legislative,...
Pro-Gaddafi Africans protest as Coalition forces gain momentum

Pro-Gaddafi Africans protest as Coalition forces gain momentum

As world leaders met Tuesday in London to discuss the Libyan situation, hundreds of members of a group called Pan Africanists from Uganda and...
Of Western hypocrisy, Obdurate tyrants and Changing times

Of Western hypocrisy, Obdurate tyrants and Changing times

As the Bob Dylan song goes, the times they are “achanging”. But, do the lowly tyrants and dictators of our world, or those Western...
The Grass is Always Greener

The Grass is Always Greener

Most mornings I pass by the American Embassy on my way to the gym. There is always a long queue of people waiting...
Responsibility to Protect: A moral case for the U.S and its allies in Libya

Responsibility to Protect: A moral case for the U.S and its allies in Libya

Because somebody has to stand up against tyranny and oppressive governments, I disagree with the several African leaders who have parochially condemned the international...
Gaddafi writes to African leaders to intervene in Libya

Gaddafi writes to African leaders to intervene in Libya

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has reportedly written to several African presidents requesting them to urge USA and its allies to stop their air strikes on his...
Mozambique: Brazil and U.S. join in cooperative development program

Mozambique: Brazil and U.S. join in cooperative development program

Mozambique has lots of fertile land and access to the region’s major rivers. Yet the country imports most of its food, much of it...
To Return Or Not to Return

To Return Or Not to Return

It’s a question that haunts many Ghanaian immigrants at one time or another during our stay in our adopted lands. No matter where in...
U.S-Egypt to pursue ‘strategic interests’ together

U.S-Egypt to pursue ‘strategic interests’ together

The new Egypt says it would preserve its 1979 peace treaty with Israel, and work closely with the United States on counter-terrorism. This eases...
Libya: International community to arm Libya opposition

Libya: International community to arm Libya opposition

The international community headed by Washington has considered arming the Libyan opposition to defend themselves against the Indifferent Muammar Gaddafi who continues to utilize...
Cigarette Smoke’s 30 minute grace period

Cigarette Smoke’s 30 minute grace period

Polycyclic hydrocarbons are well known as being carcinogenic. They carry formidable cancerization factors right along the route that the tobacco smoke follows, including the...
Libya: International forces close in on Muammar Gaddafi

Libya: International forces close in on Muammar Gaddafi

International naval and air forces have positioned around Libya in a bid to force the Libyan strong man out of office. Washington has frozen...
Libya: The Gaddafis between the devil and the deep blue sea

Libya: The Gaddafis between the devil and the deep blue sea

Following reports that the death toll may have climbed to nearly 2000 since the beginning of anti-government protests in Libya, France has embarked on...
Afrika Bambaataa: Founder of hip-hop culture

Afrika Bambaataa: Founder of hip-hop culture

Known as the godfather of hip-hop, Afrika Bambaataa evolved from an inner-city gang leader to the emissary of a worldwide youth culture. Afrika Bambaataa was...
Carter G. Woodson: the Father of Black History Month

Carter G. Woodson: the Father of Black History Month

African-American historian Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) founded Negro History Week in 1926, a one-week celebration of Black history every annual February that eventually grew...
Unlikely backers legitimize Black History Month observance

Unlikely backers legitimize Black History Month observance

Black History Month observances seek to correct factual inaccuracies that continue oozing across America perpetuating a litany of misunderstandings that fuel racial discord in...
Libya’s Gaddafi ‘Ordered Lockerbie Bombing’

Libya’s Gaddafi ‘Ordered Lockerbie Bombing’

Libyan dictator, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, did order the Lockerbie bombing of the Pan Am 103 Flight that killed 270 people in Scotland, United Kingdom,...
Customized inventions for Africa gaining ground

Customized inventions for Africa gaining ground

In 1993, Englishman Trevor Baylis designed a windup radio that does not need electricity. He hoped his invention would help spread information about AIDS...