Unlike past global recessions, it appears African nations have absorbed the worse of the current economic crisis fairly well, but would the economy continue to buck the trend, and recover relatively quickly preserving the hard-won gains of the last d...

History is our witness, and the evidence establishes and demonstrates incontrovertibly that America and Europe do not have clean hands regarding the human conditions in Africa. History bear the facts of America and European horrid brutalities in Afri...

There is wide spread ignorance and poverty in Nigeria a situation which the Nigerian state has consistently failed to deal with. When one adds religious/social intolerance; youthful restiveness/idleness and unemployment to the mix, it leads to frustr...

The Score project, led by The University of Nottingham in the UK, is developing a bio-mass burning cooking stove which also converts heat into acoustic energy and then into electricity, all in one unit.

Nigerians have been eagerly looking forward to December, when we will get the promised 6,000MW of electricity. What we got instead was a strike last week, with staff of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria holding on to the little power supply availa...

"It all started as we prepared for our wedding we realized that there seemed to be no form of database on where Africans in the diaspora can get items that are necessary for a wedding." - Jackie, publisher of first African bridal magazine, Munaluchi...

Professor Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Literature laureate, said Africa's inability to progress beyond liberation from colonialism was due to the lingering slave mentality of its leaders and intellectuals.

What is going on in the world? Why the series of murder? When did revenge or retaliation replace common sense? Just this week alone there has been 2 reports gruesome murder in the US and now this murder in Gambia. The body of William West, the...

Aïcha Ech Channa, the founder of an organization in Morocco that provides services to unmarried women with children has been awarded a $1 million from the University of St. Thomas and the Opus Prize Foundation

I wrote one of the chapters of the novel in a taxi, on my way home. It was real there and then...