Dateline Cape Town: As Africa Hosts the Netball World Cup

August 3, 2023 No Comments

ARTS, STYLE & ENTERTAINMENT This is YOUR lifestyle gallery – of what is new and what is happening in the U.S. And the Black World, not excluding Africa. For this section if you have any news we should know about – let us know at: [email protected] Thandi Galleta of Malawi (right) and Karin Burger of New Zealand in a 2023 World Cup warm up match in Cape Town. Ashley Vlotman/Gallo Images/Getty Images By Kamilla Swart The Netball World Cup was first held in 1963. It’s the largest women’s sporting event on the planet – and for the first time it’s being hosted in Africa. Four African teams have made the final 16 of the 2023 tournament, which takes place in Cape Town, South Africa from

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‘Sweet Mother’: Prince Nico Mbarga Remains The Man Who Sang Africa’s Most Popular Song

August 3, 2023 No Comments

ARTS, STYLE & ENTERTAINMENT This is YOUR lifestyle gallery – of what is new and what is happening in the U.S. And the Black World, not excluding Africa. For this section if you have any news we should know about – let us know at: [email protected] Born on January 1, 1950, in Abakaliki, southeastern Nigeria, to a Nigerian mother and a Cameroonian father, Prince Nico Mbarga was the second of four children, and grew up in a multicultural household that exposed him to a variety of musical styles and traditions. Mbarga’s father was a trader who frequently traveled between Nigeria and Cameroon, and his mother was a teacher. Despite his father’s absence for much of his childhood, Mbarga maintained a

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‘The Eyes of Five’: NATO’s Inside Story

August 3, 2023 No Comments

AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. Reserved for subscribers By Joshua Holzer The heart of the NATO  alliance –  established in the aftermath of World War II to promote the collective security of its mostly Western European members – is Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which requires that if one member is attacked, then all of the other members will respond as if they themselves had been attacked. But NATO isn’t the only alliance that countries across the globe are eager to join. For more than 75 years, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K. and the U.S. have been sharing intelligence with one another as part of what they call the Five Eyes alliance. I am a former U.S. Army intelligence analyst who now studies

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Thoughts On Africa’s New Bromance With Putin’s Russia

August 3, 2023 No Comments

AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. By Caleb Onyeabor/Special to The African Times-USA Between 1884-1885 in Berlin, European powers met to partition the African continent and share it among themselves in what has been infamously known as the Scramble-for-Africa.  One hundred and thirty-eight years after, the scramble for Africa is still on. As a matter of fact, we are all witnessing the second scramble for Africa now in full bloom. Unlike the first scramble, the second scramble of this turf war in Africa has seen more bidders coming to the table, especially countries from the Eastern bloc. In today’s scramble for Africa, the Africans at least have been given a seat at the table. For centuries,

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With a Doping Scandal African Nations Still Readying For Next World Track and Field Championships

July 26, 2023 No Comments

ARTS, STYLE & ENTERTAINMENT This is YOUR lifestyle gallery – of what is new and what is happening in the U.S. And the Black World, not excluding Africa. For this section if you have any news we should know about – let us know at: [email protected] A Preview By Ben Edokpayi/Special to The African Times-USA  At last year’s World Championships at Hayward Field, Oregon the Nigerian team ended with a medals haul of 1 gold, 5 Silver and 5 Bronze in one of its best finishes in decades. The gold medal was won in a World record time of 12:12 Seconds By Tobi Amusan in the 100 meters hurdles. With barely a month before the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary

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Aging is complicated – a biologist explains why no two people or cells age the same way, and what this means for anti-aging interventions

July 26, 2023 No Comments

AFRICA WELLNESS This is the section that provides answers to your various health and wellness issues, especially for people of African descent – holistic, diagnostic, curative, historical, and intervention. Our experts will assist with tips on how to improve your quality of life.  Sponsored by THE TIMES as a Community Service By Ellen Quarles/Special to The African Times-USA You likely know someone who seems to age slowly, appearing years younger than their birth date suggests. And you likely have seen the opposite – someone whose body and mind seem much more ravaged by time than others. Why do some people seem to glide though their golden years and others physiologically struggle in midlife? What is aging? There are many different definitions

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