African News

Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai dies

Credit: cbc.ca Wangari Maathai, the first African woman recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died after a long struggle with cancer at age 71, the (...)

| September 2011 | 324 views

Energy Confab: Johannesburg Declaration

Preamble We, African Ministers responsible for Energy, convened in Johannesburg, South Africa on September 15and 16, 2011 at the Africa Energy Ministers (...)

| September 2011 | 1118 views

How SLPP Lost the 2012 Elections

Commentary By Alfred Munda SamForay, USA. This may be a post-mortem before death; or perhaps a way to look back to the future. However one looks at (...)

| August 2011 | 483 views

Sandy shot himself in the leg

Opinion By Theophilus Sahr Gbenda, Freetown, Sierra Leone. On Friday evening, the sacking of the erstwhile Minister of Lands, Country Planning and (...)

| August 2011 | 565 views

Seun Anikulapo-Kuti and Egypt 80

By Dennis Kabatto, New York. Not even the scorching heat - 110 degrees Fahrenheit- temperature could deter the thousands of New Yorkers and out of town (...)

| July 2011 | 340 views

Profile: Fela Anikulapo-Kuti

Fela Anikulapo Kuti 15 October 1938 — 2 August 1997), or simply Fela, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, (...)

| July 2011 | 1751 views

Ghana: FGJ issues statement on harassed lawyers

Press Statement:The Forum for Governance and Justice (FGJ) reacts to recent GBA statement regarding some gallant lawyers who made comments about corruption (...)

| July 2011 | 506 views

Krio and Temne dictionaries

What: Sierra Leone’s first Temne-English Dictionary by Dr. Abou Bai-Sheka, a ground-breaking publication that speaks for itself. A Krio-English dictionary (...)

| July 2011 | 5256 views