Month: January 2006

In the early 1970s, a leading Nigerian novelist and essayist, as well as this writer’s African Literature professor at the City College of New York of the State University of New York, published a celebrated […]

Recently, a writer who signed his name as “Kwamina Ato” wrote to the editor of the Accra Daily Mail demanding to know why Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) and the architects of the National Health Insurance […]

Isiolo, 17 January, 2006— Over the past two months, Ali Duba, a 49-year-old schoolteacher in Isiolo district in eastern Kenya, has seen his entire flock of 230 sheep and goats die from lack of pasture […]

Baghdad, 17 January, 2006— Hundreds of people have been displaced by severe floods in the southern city of Safwan, some 45 km southwest of Basra. “A torrential rainstorm saw five inches of rainfall in three […]

Washington/Accra, 17 January, 2006— “The people of the United States believe in Africa’s future” and, like Africans, know that “education is vital to a better future for all of the world’s children,” first lady Laura […]

Washington, 17 January, 2006— Speaking to reporters while en route to Monrovia January 16 to attend the inauguration of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first elected woman president of Liberia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice contrasted that […]

Washington/Monrovia, 17 January, 2006— The election of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as Liberia’s first female president is a significant event worldwide and is “particularly important” to Africa, first lady Laura Bush says. “[T]raditionally women have been excluded […]

Monrovia, 16 January, 2006— Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf placed her hand on the bible and took the oath of office as Liberia’s and Africa’s first female president on Monday, promising peace and restoration for the war-torn nation. […]