Traveling In Africa And Beyond Can Come With Some Laughs. Enjoy!
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Travelling to and within Africa can be fascinating, engaging, inspirational and all the other adjectives you can think of. And then there are the funny things you experience and learn; “African massage” is getting banged in a 4 x 4 Range Rover and […]
How Ghana’s Rice Farmers Are Frustrated By The Banks
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Phillip Tetteh Quarshie & Evan Fraser New farming technologies have the potential to improve livelihoods and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Better seed varieties, soil fertility practices and pest management can all increase productivity. A United Nations Development Program report says growth […]
An Afro-Latina Reconnects With Her African Roots As an American Peace
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Jennifer Manzanillo Throughout my life, I have always had a deep yearning to dive into the unknown and discover unique ways to serve humanity. As a Latina of African descent, I also wanted to make connections with the African diaspora around the […]
Boston’s Black Radio Station Partners The Globe To Deepen Relationship
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Created in partnership with Boston Black News (BBN), Boston’s first and only faith-based, Black-owned, FCC licensed FM station and multimedia network, Black News Hour will develop a space for Boston’s Black community to engage and connect with Globe journalists, deepening connections and building […]
COVID-19 Makes Benin The Fastest Place to
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Anne Nzouankeu Benin set up a service early in the COVID-19 pandemic to allow people to register their business online, and now the West African country is the world’s fastest place to start a business, according to a U.N. agency. Sandra Idossou, […]
Jerry Rawlings Is The Man Ghanaians Hated to Love and Loved to Hate
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Jeffery Haynes Ghana’s Third Republic lasted for just two years – from September 24, 1979 to December 31, 1981. Jerry Rawlings book-ended these two events. In 1979 he stepped aside following an election narrowly won by Dr. Hilla Limann. Rawlings had come […]
Obama’s NBA Africa Investment – A Boom For Basketball on the Continent
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By John Nauright & Sarah Zipp Former US president Barack Obama’s decision to invest in the National Basketball Association’s Africa venture reflects a lot about his past – his basketball playing youth and his African roots. It also signals that his future ambitions […]
An Ode To The Nigerian-American Family – The Ette’s – Who Paid The Ultimate Price On 9/11
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Ben Edokpayi/ The Times Senior Contributing Editor While back in Nigeria on a spiritual retreat in 2014, after a terrible traumatic situation that I personally had to face, I found time to visit my late aunt’s husband, Professor Sunday Itauma Ette, a […]
The History of Europe’s Blacks That’s Struck
By A Partial Amnesia
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email The title of your book is African Europeans: An Untold History. It is unusual to refer to people of African descent living in Europe as African Europeans. Why did you choose to use this term? The term ‘African European’ or ‘Afro-European’ is not […]
Shedding fresh light on the
history of the Yoruba people
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Akinwunmi Ogundiran The Yoruba are among the most storied groups in Africa. Their ancestral homeland cuts across present-day southwest Nigeria, Benin Republic and Togo in West Africa. They number between 35 and 40 million. Their dynamic culture, philosophy, arts, language, sociology and […]