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 […]
Broadway Pulls Up Her Curtain
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email EDITOR’S NOTE: After over two years of Broadway gone dark she is about to reopen and bring her curtain up once again. Below are some of the plays and musicals Broadway is opening. You will need a mask and proof of vaccination to […]
Destination: Washington DC – The Real DC For the Black Traveler
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Government and politics tell only part of the story of the nation’s capital. The part that’s typically covered by Washington correspondents. But the larger part? That’s DC: a patchwork of neighborhoods both steeped in history and buzzing with new energy; restaurants that span […]
Inaugural International Day for People of African Descent
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email The United States joins others around the world in commemorating the first International Day for People of African Descent. This day was created to promote the extraordinary contributions of Africans and members of the African diaspora around the world and is an opportunity […]
Air Senegal Flies Nation’s Colors Into The US For The First Time
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Executives of Air Senegal were recently in Washington DC to announce the commencement for the first time of two weekly flights between the Senegal and United States. The flights will be operated from Baltimore/Washington International Airport (BWI) and John F. Kennedy International Airport […]
Playing To Win Is At The Center Of Mary Edoyugbo’s Prolific Art Collection
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Basil Chiji Okafor/Exclusive to The African Times-USA It is quite rare to find such finesse in so prolific an artist, as Mary Edoyugbo, gifted Nigerian pointillist, who combines her unusual skills, with an amazing dexterity – it would usually take her mere […]