West Africa:-Bank to Launch New Platform to Connect Mano River Countries
Connecting people, consolidating peace and accelerating economic transformation were the main themes of a high-level seminar organized by the African Development Bank in Abidjan on Monday, May 13, whose aim was to promote regional integration in the four Mano River Union (MRU) countries of Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Sponsored More...
The French, The UN and THE IVORY COAST
With the violent overthrow of democratically elected President Gbagbo, Ivory Coast has reverted to its old status of a French colony in fact. The hands of French, Western and UN officials drip with the blood More...
Chinua Achebe is dead, long live Chinua Achebe!
By: Samwin Banienuba* The Nobel laureate that never was and the poster face of modern African literature is no longer with us. Alas! Chinua Achebe is reported to have joined the ancestors at 82 on 21st March More...
Arik Air partners with Sierra Leone to establish national carrier, known as Leone Airways
By: Chinedu Eze Nigeria’s biggest carrier, Arik Air is providing technical support to the government of Sierra Leone to establish a national carrier, known as Leone Airways. Chairman of Arik Air, Joseph More...
BENIN ARTEFACTS:- Will this miserable project be the last word on the looted Benin artefacts?
By: Kwame Opoku The Benin Plan of Action is no plan of action and does not deal with restitution of the looted Benin bronzes. After 50 years Africans must demand a concrete time frame within which the artefacts More...
‘THINGS FALL APART’ and the case against IMPERIALISM
By: Sankara Kamara* The death of the renowned Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, has thrust one of the most popular African books in the news. Although Achebe wrote multiple books and produced several works More...
Jammeh warns Homosexuals-”If we catch you, you will regret why you are born”-President Jammeh of The Gambia
Gambian president, Yahya Jammeh, has warned that any gay or lesbians found in the country will “regret” being born. President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia During a speech on March 28th 2013 at the More...
Sierra Leone:- The Creoles in Nigeria
By: Eric Teniola I watched the second inauguration of the President of Sierra Leone, Dr. Earnest Bai Koroma, on television recently. Koroma who is of the Temri tribe was the former Managing Director of Reliable More...
Chinua Achebe:-One of Africa’s towering men of letters died on Thursday in Boston.
By: Jonathan Kandell Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian writer who was one of Africa’s most widely read novelists and one of the continent’s towering men of letters, died on Thursday in Boston. He was 82. His More...
Gambia launches project to reduce poverty, end food insecurity
Banjul (The Gambia) APA: The Gambia is holding a workshop to mark the official launching of the “National Agricultural Land and Water Management Development” project (NEMA) geared towards reducing More...