Nigeria’s ‘Obidient’ Movement is Africa’s Top Social Force in 2023
AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. By Caleb Onyeabor/Special to The African Times/USA The historic and competitive elections held in the World’s most populated black nation was marked by the emergence, rise and dominance of a movement built around the ambition of one of the presidential contestants, Peter Obi. With the […]
Key facts about America’s 47.2 million Blacks
AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. BY MARK HUGO LOPEZ AND MOHAMAD MOSLIMANI The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 47.2 million in 2021, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data. This group is diverse, with a growing number and share born outside […]
Western Democracy is not working for Africa.
AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. For decades, Western-style democracy has been heralded as a beacon of hope and progress, promising freedom, prosperity, and accountable governance to nations around the world. Yet, as the 21st century unfolds, a stark and complex reality emerges across the vast and diverse continent of Africa. […]
Opinion: Emancipated But Un-Free Is The True Story Of America’s Black Population
AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. By Kris Manjapra The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard the word that freedom for the enslaved had come. There were speeches, sermons and shared meals, mostly held at Black churches, the safest places […]
The Niger Uranium Paradox That Has Made The African Country a Predator’s Target
AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. By Francis Okpaleke & Olumba Ezenwa A month after the coup in Niger that toppled the democratically elected civilian government of Mohamed Bazoum, the country’s neighbors are still debating the possibility of military intervention. The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) – a coalition of west African […]
Concerns of Kenyan Troops in Haiti Prompts More Questions Than Answers
AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. By Jorge Heine The kidnapping and subsequent release of U.S. nurse Alix Dorsainvil and her young daughter in Haiti in early August 2023 drew brief international attention to crime in the impoverished Caribbean nation. But the truth is that such kidnappings are commonplace for Haitians, and they rarely […]
How The West Is Fast Losing The Public Relations War in Africa
AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. By Caleb Onyeabor/Special to The African Times/USA One of the weapons of Imperialism in Africa, whether in the pre-colonization, colonization and post-colonization era is mind control. The external powers most often are in the business of dominance and exploitation for as long as it can […]
‘The Eyes of Five’: NATO’s Inside Story
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 […]
Thoughts On Africa’s New Bromance With Putin’s Russia
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 […]
Discrimination or Bad Customer Service: Treatment of People of Color In American Stores
AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. By Samantha N. N. Cross, Stephanie Dellande & Sterling Bone The big idea People from underrepresented ethnic and racial groups tend to rate poor customer service less negatively than white people do, according to new peer-reviewed research we co-authored. Many companies in the service sector, such as […]