African foundations of world religions
Biko, Femi
Easter is in the air, so is the Hajj. But where is the Africans’ celebration of th…
Category: New African
Aids: Rhetoric and reality
Ankomah, Baffour
Baffour Ankomah was in Senegal in early February, on a one-week trip organised by the UN…
2010 WORLD CUP: South Africa is on the ball
Eze, Mercy
Since winning the prestigious, yet challenging mandate to host the 2010 Fifa …
Why did we become independent?
Muluzi, Bakili
“There situation in Africa in terms of economic reform is not changing. There has been…
Shame on you, Mr Sarkozy
Ankomah, Baffour
“The tragedy of Africa is that the African man has never really entered history. The Afric…
Kufour–the biography
Afrani, Mike
John Agyekum Kufuor was born on 8 December 1938 in Kumasi, the Asante capital. A lawyer, he was e…
Black skin, white masks
Orakwue, Stella
Imagine Frantz Fanon, our psychiatrist-philosopher, writing it 50 years ago; imagine reading…
UK: London festival targets capital’s slavery past
Herzfeld, Beth
23 August marks UNESCO’s International Day for the Remembrance of …
Portugal-Africa: 30 years after the Carnation Revolution
Grundy, Trevor
On the morning of 25 April 1974, the Portuguese military sta…
Oil: Latest stop Uganda but who really enefits?
Abraham, Curtis
Uganda is Africa’s latest kid on the oil block. In fact, oil occurre…