Over the next few weeks, various U.S. based bodies – Brookings Institution, Woodrow Wilson Center and the Corporate Council for Africa – will emerge with reports...
Apathy. What a hellish idea! And yet it manifests itself everywhere in as many parts of Africa. It is there to meet you when you land...
U.S. President Barack Obama with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan ‘The people you see in Nigeria today,’ China Achebe once said, ‘have always lived as neighbors in...
Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya’s President-Elect Tiger Woods could recapture his Number One Golfer position in two weeks if he wins at Bay Hill; Nelson Mandela has...
Uhuru Kenyatta, Potential President-elect, 2013 Between late 2007 and early 2008, when President Mwai Kibaki was declared winner of a much contested presidential election, supporters of...
Uncle Sam is an elderly man with white hair and a goatee. He usually wears a white top hat with white stars on a blue band,...
Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana. PHOTO/Getty Images On April 19, 2005, following the death of his predecessor, Joseph Aloysius Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI, 264th heir...
Islamists in Northern Mali. Courtesy of the New York Times. 2013 Broken Social Contracts On top of the colorful bands of rebels and warlords that inadvertently...
An Acrylic Painting: Founding Fathers Tableau by Stephen Warde Anderson Although they’d not recognize their meticulously designed political entity these 200 years later, America’s Founding Fathers...
Cartoon by Peter Schrank for The Economist By the time Obama was ceremonially sworn in at the U.S. Capitol Building, he had officially been President for...
A younger Barack Obama with his grandmother during his first trip to Africa to visit the family of his father, Barack Obama, Sr. PHOTO/Maya Soetoro-Ng The...
After more than five years away from home, your correspondent returned to East Africa. Making a pitstop in Dubai, I was reminded of how global the...
By Christmas Eve of 2012, it was apparent that on top of a general paucity that comes with being one of the world’s poorest countries, Ugandans...
Manhattan, NY | December 19, 2012 According to the New York Times, each morning at about 5:30 a.m., Chicago’s mayor, Rahm Emmanuel, receives an email from...
On Friday, November 23, 2012, a 17-year old young black man, Jordan Russell Davis was sitting in a convenience store parking lot, listening to very loud...
Before November 2012, the last Republican to lose to Barack Obama was unfortunate. Not only was he dealt a remarkably bad hand by the global financial...
Author’s Note | November 23, 2012: An 800 word editorial for The Habari Network morphed into longer commentary following comments from economic policy and trade doyens....
Mitt Romney was never, really, supposed to be their nominee. In fact, because he had, as governor of Massachusetts, passed universal healthcare – the template used...
If Obama had not turned in such a lackadaisical performance at the first Presidential Debate against Mitt Romney this early October, the incumbent president would not...
A few hours before President Barack Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney met in New York on October 16, 2012 for their second Presidential Debate, a...
Watching American pundits on television comment about politics is like observing teenagers. From the vantage point of having gone through THAT phase, one knows that hormones...
Updated October 10, 2012 – 12:43 p.m. The polls are in. Angst amongst the Democrats is up and spreading. Following his disastrous performance at the first...
Robert Mugabe, that irascible Big Man of Zimbabwe, was very disappointed with the just concluded 67th Session of the UN General Assembly. On arrival back in...
As your humble correspondents, my colleagues and I know that you expect us to report the facts, the truth and just about enough information so you...
In 2008, Leo Tavares* convinced his mother to vote for Barack Obama. He actually walked with his politically naïve mother into the voting booth and told...
Richard Neustadt’s classic ‘Presidential Power’ is, perhaps, the leading authority on the actual role of the American president. At its core, Neustadt argues, the presidency is...
In June this year, I made the sanguine prediction that Obama would keep his job as America’s president for a second term. This prognosis was based...
Nothing tests a political entity’s strength and maturity like transitioning from one leader to another. Internal strife or disaster may test a community or continent: but...
Last week, I went out on a limb, praised Jamaica and then, in the same vein [to the dismay of my colleague Ryan Elcock] basically put...
On the day I turned a year closer to 40, Jamaica became 50 as an independent nation. As is wont to happen when one shares a...
Although a direct correlation may never be established, one might not be too far off if they blamed the Bush II administration for the increase in...
As at August 1, 2012, China has more medals than any other country at the London Olympic Games. The Chinese are probably on track to win...
Almost all prominent or successful business people in the Great Lakes Region [loosely Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, East Africa including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda...
The man running to replace Barack Obama as America’s president in November 2012 is a very rich man. He looks, talks, acts, feels and even does...
We are compelled to continue with last week’s tirade. We argued, then, that many in America are, supposedly, brave and free. We also said that they...
Late last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a very, VERY controversial decision on the constitutionality of a healthcare law provision called ‘The Individual Mandate.’ To...
Mr. Romney makes a compelling case for the U.S. presidency against Barack Obama. The former Massachusetts governor has been in business ever since his father’s days...
Washington DC is the capital city of the world’s biggest economy. It is also the place many countries come to make or break themselves. Some African...
This week, representatives from over 39 African countries will gather in Washington DC. They will be here to deliberate, as they annually do, on the Africa...
I do not read the entrails of wild things to predict the future; and neither do I trust my gut. No. And on a regular basis,...
I do not know what will happen if Obama loses his bid for reelection in November this year. However, I do know that a great many...
In early May 2012, President Barack Obama came out and gave us a monster of a personal opinion: He said he was now, after evolving, in...
France has a new president, a new regime and a ‘new’ philosophy in the middle of Europe and a world that had, apparently, gone the way...
Like we have argued previously, there is probably hyperbole in using the words ‘war’ and ‘women’ in the same statement. However, it might behoove one to...
In all honesty, it is, at best, delusional to suggest that there is a so called ‘war on women.’ The closest to the bullseye might probably...
In a 1914 article entitled ‘Suppression‘, Margaret Sanger wrote about her belief in women’s rights: ‘My fight,’ she opined ‘is for the personal liberty of the...
There is a war raging in America. It has experienced as many battles and battlefronts as there have been belligerents ever since the founding of this...
There’s a Ghanaian proverb that says: ‘You do not become a chief simply by sitting on a big stool.’ Interpretively, one does not get to be...
Time: 9:10 am Location: Washington, DC Date: Happening Right Now Once upon a time, while Africa was overwhelmingly mired in bad news and lots and lots...
You hear this many a time … It is said in almost every gathering of people of color. Its like a conspiracy and one has no...
There’s no doubt about it: These young people did an amazing job. They took a simple concept, built it and wrote it in their terms and...
Keeping in line with the economic elements of the Caribbean Community [CARICOM], its remarkable how theirs and those of many African countries are almost a mirror...
The essence of regional organization is that there’s safety, growth, development and better bargaining power in numbers. The Caribbean Community, made up of 15 members and...
Be as it may, this video is almost a sad conclusion to these Black History Month editorials. Instead of speaking about the trillions of dollars in...
According to the Central Bank of Barbados, the country needs more foreign exchange inflows to buy fuel, equipment, materials and finished products to keep its economy...
In celebrating Black History Month this February 2012, various urban radio stations in the Greater New York area aired programs to discuss ‘all things black.’ One...
In October 1995, when OJ Simpson was acquitted for the brutal murder of his wife and her lover, many blacks apparently celebrated. Some in the black...
Does Africa have problems? There’s an affirmative knee jerk response to this question. However, how would you respond to someone’s dictum that: ‘Africa does NOT have...
There’s now more evidence that racism may not be what it actually purports to be. Instead, there’s an even more viscous collaboration between sheer, bloody, utter...
According to polls, it was not until the election of Barack Obama that positive ratings for the U.S. returned to their pre-Iraq war level. A Pew...
Like many in the Diaspora, I’ll do almost anything to meet up with a friend from back home; someone who still lives on the Continent –...
Tony Burman was spot on: Every news organization, the former editor of CBC News opined, has only its own credibility and reputation to rely on. The...
Megan McArdle, over at The Atlantic has a brilliant article on what low income communities need. You have to read this treatise to see how remarkably...
First, there is a big difference between the unemployment situation in Africa, the Caribbean, Pacific Region; and then in places like Europe and the United States....
In his 2000 book ‘What is Africa’s Problem?’ Yoweri Museveni, Uganda’s president waxed political prose about why Africa is dysfunctional. In his estimation then, the ‘quagmire’...
The world’s largest economy, by conventional wisdom standards, is the United States. Sitting astride an annual Gross Domestic Product of over US$ 15 trillion, the Americans...
During uncertain economic times, investors, in most cases, look for something of value – something that is presumed safe – and in this safe investment is...
The Habari Network is pleased to bring you a three part series on race and race relations. This will be written from an activist perspective; but...
In August 2011, when Muammar Gaddafi’s fate as leader of Libya was all but assured, Reuters ran an article with illuminating analysis about potential and pitfalls...
What is one to make of Herman Cain? What does he represent? Or even more importantly, who does he speak for? Should we move beyond his...
Its [now] about [10:53] [and am over the 8:25 euphoria of hearing the news]. Then, like now, grad school lethargy caroused my veins; my right eye,...
Apparently, Ziggy Marley was right. Jamaicans do not want you to think about the problems of Jamaica especially because they want you to come be in...
In its August 20, 2011 edition, the Economist run an article on the potential that Diaspora bonds could hold for a continent like Africa. Earlier in...
Be as it may, the American media has seemingly taken on a very political role. You see … In the past, the leaders of the Democratic...
What should a person expect from a news rag such as this? Well … I come not to make speeches, salutations; pledges or promises – but...
To describe it simply, we are all reductionists. Because we do not have complete answers to the things we see around us, we are wont to...
They started to stream across the border in the hundreds; and there was alarm from the Kenyan authorities. In an interview with the BBC about a...
The Mid July Editorial What is the essence of being a black immigrant in a strange land? Should we think of and relate to Harry Belafonte...
What is the fastest way to get to the top of a hill? Some people will fall asleep and dream of creative ways to do this...