Nana Akufo-Addo said compensation for the trauma of the trans-Atlantic slave trade is long overdue and compared Africa’s lack of reparations to the enormous sums paid to slaveholders at the…
CARICOM Secretariat, Greater Georgetown, Guyana — A symbolic reconnection between Africa and the Caribbean diaspora occurred on Friday 29 at the CARICOM Secretariat when Deputy Secretary-General, Dr Armstrong Alexis, welcomed…
By Adam Taylor, Washington Post — When French President Emmanuel Macron visited Cameroon this week, he called out an entire continent for “hypocrisy.” Europe had decisively identified Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Part 2. My interest in and embrace of Kiswahili as a pan-African language of choice raised questions of how best to communicate this choice and…
By Baher Kamal, IPS— South Africa, the home land of the late giant fighter against Apartheid, racism and discrimination – Nelson Mandela “Mandiba”, is already ‘on the precipice of explosive…
Rev. Dr. Agorom Dike is founder and President of the Caribbean and African Faith Based Leadership Conference. By Grit Daily — If history has taught us anything, the most influential…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Part 1. The rapid rise of the Swahili language to global reach and significance reflected in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)…
Anti-racists held angry mobilisations in Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Bilbao, Seville, Granada, Cádiz, Mataro and Zaragoza. By Charlie Kimber, Socialist Worker — Protests erupted across Spain on Sunday evening after the…
AFRICOM regards itself as sleek and deadly effective, but operations resemble previous neocolonial interventions. By Jonathan Ng, Truthout — This March, Malian forces attacked Moura, a small sunbaked town in the…
June 8, 2022 — Host Bill Fletcher, Jr. is joined by Katlyn Thomas and Stephen Zunes for a webinar “Morocco’s Autonomy Proposal vs Independence in Western Sahara: What Solution is…
Faced with racist crimes such as the Tops shooting, some Black Americans consider a time-honored option: emigration. By Karen Attiah, The Washington Post — Accra, Ghana — In 1961, 93-year-old…
Malian soldiers and Putin-linked mercenaries massacred hundreds of people in the village of Moura. By Hannah Rae Armstrong, The Nation — On March 27, as herders converged upon the central…