Banker-turned-poultry farmer: A champion for African agriculture
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email “If we must satisfy Africa’s food security with our growing population, then there must be high commercialization of agriculture. That is modern farming.” – Ayotomiwa Yinka Ogunsua, poultry farmer When Ayotomiwa Yinka Ogunsua got a job as a loan officer at a microfinance […]
African Development Bank Head’s Sales Pitch at EU-Africa Green Investment Forum
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Sounding a note of optimism at the European Union-Africa Green Investment Forum on Friday, African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) President Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina reminded global audiences of the continent’s vast opportunities for green growth. “Africa is a huge market offering incredible opportunities. The […]
Incredible and Extraordinary Creativity Wins
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Pineapple, or Ananas, as this delicious fruit is called in all the non-English speaking countries ls turned into fashionable shoes by three enterprising students in Nairobi, Kenya. Pine Kazi as a company established in 2019 by three passionate young students in Nairobi, Kenya […]
Danger of Dumped Toxic Wastes: Africa Still Part of the “Triangle of Death”
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Ben Edokpayi/Special To The African Times-USA In 2017, while at work as a Public Information Officer for the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, DTSC-CalEPA, and almost three decades after a collaboration between an Italian Politician and a Nigerian-American journalist, on what […]
Post-Covid–19 Travel Planning
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email It’s unbelievable that all of us have been cooped up for over a year, face masks, social and physical distancing, and looking for the right vaccine, et al, we should now be ready to move into the post-epidemic planning for a post-Covid holiday. […]
Houston Event to Encourage US Oil Firms to Invest in Africa
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email The well-connected lawyer Jude Kearney is backing the US-Africa Energy Forum 2021, whose aim is to promote greater American business involvement in Africa – a continent where the Chinese are currently omnipresent. Jude Kearney, sponsor of the US-Africa Energy Forum 2021. The founder of Kearney […]
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Who Really Has the Right Journalistic Perspective on Africa?
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Ben Edokpayi/The Times Senior Contributing Editor In the dying days of 2014 during the Nigerian presidential elections, and as I worked on a column for a Nigerian news magazine – Tell – I had read an inflammatory dispatch by Reuters on the […]
Why this trial was different: Experts react to guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Scholars analyze the guilty verdicts handed down to former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the 2020 murder of George Floyd. Outside the courthouse, crowds cheered and church bells sounded – a collective release in a city scarred by police killings. Minnesota’s attorney general, whose […]
Court TV Records Highest Viewership For The George Floyd Verdict
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Court TV viewing peaked April 20 between 4:30-5:30 p.m. ET – during which time the verdicts were read – at 402K viewers 2+. Court TV was ranked in the top 15 ahead of such networks as ID, ESPN, TBS, TNT, FX, Discovery Channel […]