How African leaders in Sierra Leone Helped Stop Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Not Britain
AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. Reserved for subscribers Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone and haven for thousands of free slaves. Original Artwork: Hatch Collection. Hulton Archive/Getty Images By Bronwen Everill Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone on the west African coast, was named for the freed slaves who were returned […]
Why Nigerians and African Immigrants Are No Longer Most Successful In America
AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. By Caleb Onyeabor/Exclusive to The African Times/USA Step aside Nigerian Americans! The Indians are here! And they are here to stay. The narrative today is that Nigerian immigrants no longer occupy the enviable position of being the most successful and/or the most educated group of […]
Nigeria’s New President And The Crisis of Legitimacy
AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. Reserved for subscribers By Caleb Onyeabor/An Analysis The last presidential elections in Nigeria have lived up to the hype as the most competitive, intriguing and interesting election in Nigeria since the return to democracy in 1999. The candidate of the APC polled 8,794,726 to win […]
..And Isn’t It Time To Have Mbeki Back To Turn South Africa Around?
AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. Reserved for subscribers By Thandisizwe Mgudlwa/An Analysis In the past couple of years, the name of former president Thabo Mbeki has re-emerged as a possible solution for fixing the South Africa (SA) economy and spreading the wealth of the country to all its people. Mostly, this […]
Whither South Africa As We Had Always Know It?
AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. Reserved for subscribers By Thandisizwe Mgudlwa/Special to The African Times/USA PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa is the unluckiest president since the dawn of South Africa’s democracy in 1994, confided one ANC activist recently during a brief chat the other day. Just less two years into the highest job […]
African Civilizations That Left a Lasting Global Legacy
AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. Stone obelisks stand tall in Aksum, Ethiopia. This city was once the capital of a kingdom spanning northeast Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Shutterstock / Artist By Nancy Bird Pre-colonial African history is alive with tales of civilizations rising and falling and of different cultures […]
Another Libya? Sudan’s New War Is An African Problem
AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. Analysis By Caleb Onyeabor/Staff Writer Sudan is the latest center of the exchange of fire in the world. For a country which has spent most of its post independent years in and out of conflict, what is going on in Sudan did not come as […]
What’s the Secret behind the Senegalese ‘Magic’ on Africa’s Soccer Stage?
AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. The Senegal team celebrates its trophy after winning the U-20 Africa Cup of Nations final in Cairo, Egypt, March 11, 2023. Photo Ahmed Gomaa/Xinhua via Getty Images. By Souleymane Diallo Senegal’s national football teams have won four continental trophies in one year – Africa Cup of Nations […]
Lake Natron of the Great Rift Valley: Where Animals Are Turned into Stone
AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. By Caleb Onyeabor Lake Natron is a salt and soda lake located in northern Tanzania. It is situated in the Great Rift Valley and is fed by mineral-rich hot springs, which results in its high alkaline levels. The lake’s pH can reach as high as […]
Delayed But Not Denied: A Gallant Black Vietnam Vet Finally Gets His Due – Medal of Honor
AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. He engaged in hand-to-hand combat with his North Korean foes, wounded but unbowed, Col. Paris Davis finally got his deserved recognition nearly 60 years after winning a last-ditch battle with systemic racism within the US military. Recently, he was recommended for the nation’s highest military […]