During the first few months after I arrived in America in early 1992, I was constantly disoriented by the dizzying pace of life in the country. My bewilderment was partly due to the fact that I had spent the previous six years in the Soviet Union, where there was...
On July 26, 2023, the democratically elected president of Niger, Mohammed Bazoum, was deposed in a coup by the country’s military. West African leaders roundly condemned the coup and quickly imposed economic and diplomatic sanctions on Niger. They called for the...
Allegations of corruption recently forced Cecilia Dapaah to resign from her position as Ghana’s minister of sanitation and water resources. Following news reports that the minister and her husband had stashed large sums of money in their home in Accra and could not...
The Strength I Needed To Keep Going JUL 22 Posted by Literary Titan Patrick Asare Author Interview The Boy from Boadua shares your journey from a remote Ghanaian village to studying in the Soviet Union and eventually to living in America, teaching at inner-city high...
On the second day of the 2023 NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Britain’s defense secretary, Ben Wallace, and U.S. national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, reportedly made statements that raised some concerns about the continuity of NATO support for Ukraine in its...
My wife and I often watch the nightly television news together. We see the frequent reports of young men and women from poor countries drowning in the Mediterranean Sea in their desperate attempts to reach Europe, South Americans fleeing gang violence and poverty in...
