By David Jessop Trinidad and Tobagos Point Fortin LNG terminal. PHOTO/File In March 1980 David Renwick, the Trinidadian journalist, and I wrote an extended feature for...
Tony Elumelu Africa, the second largest continent, is in a fix. It is rich in natural resources. It has a relatively young population, but years after...
By Ryan Elcock I recently stumbled upon an interesting article from the Jakarta Globe called, “China Extends its Economic Influence to the Caribbean Region” which got...
Give Africans a piece of technology and watch them invent a thousand uses for it. This idea was of course exaggerated for laughs in the 1980...
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...
By Kevin Edmonds As part of her election campaign, Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller of Jamaica announced her intention of breaking ties with the British monarchy and...
Electronic toll gate structure on Gauteng highway. PHOTO/Yuri Madonsela South African unions and big business are united in opposition to proposed tolls to pay for road...
A good way to start redefining African risk would be for African-owned financial institutions to establish their own rating agency. The idea that risk analysts and...
There is no doubt that a good education can open up the door to future opportunities, as well as equipping young people with life skills and...
The United States is clearly worried about China’s rising economic and political influence in Africa. As recent comments by a State Department official and independent analysts...
By Ryan Elcock As the Trayvon Martin tragedy unfolds day-by-day, I have discovered that we black men have some pretty awesome powers – not the kind...
If Bill Gates were black, it would be less important that President Barack Obama is black. This is no slight to President Obama. It is an...
African American voters. PHOTO/File For more than two weeks, tens of thousands of African-Americans have been marching on public streets to demand justice for Trayvon Martin,...
Racial profiling — the targeting of individuals because of race, ethnic identity, national origin or religion — has no place in our nation. The recent, tragic...
Newspaper vendors in Senegal. PHOTO/File After 50 years of independence, the path to democracy does not follow an obvious, straight line in this region, just as...
Seventeen year-old Trayvon Martin. PHOTO/Martin Family/AP The shooting to death of a young teen – Trayvon Martin, in Florida three weeks ago is every parent’s nightmare,...
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a speech at a Labor Day event sponsored by the Metro Detroit Central Labor Council September 5, 2011 in Detroit, Michigan....
President Barack Obama has a public relations problem when it comes to Afghanistan, to say the least. Once the must-fight war for America, the decade-long mission...
Joseph Kony. PHOTO/AFP This week’s biggest Africa news isn’t from Africa. It’s from a massive online and social media campaign launched by the American advocacy group...
Taking a walk in the downtowns of major African cities, one can see bustling shopping malls and streets populated not just by domestic restaurant chains but...
By Dennis Matanda For the record, I do not think that feminization equals a reduction in status. However, bear with me while I pontificate on how...
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. PHOTO/File The GOP primary in Florida on January 31 highlighted a fundamental problem the Republican Party will face in...
Rwanda may be on track to become one of the most compelling case studies in favor of foreign aid since South Korea emerged as an economic...
Queen Nefertiti. Image/USA Today, August 13, 2003 Join Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as he takes you on a journey to discover a wealth of African history...
As Black History month commences, we will continue to highlight black men, women and sometimes children who have stood out and made great contributions, better themselves...
Dante Carver. PHOTO/Japan Today Dante Carver an New York native moved to Japan in 2005, and by 2008 had become the most popular male actor in...
They call the Third World the lazy man’s purview; the sluggishly slothful and languorous prefecture. In this realm people are sleepy, dreamy, torpid, lethargic, and therefore...
The presenter asks us to shed outdated notions of Africa as a unified place plagued by starvation and war. Between mobile phone innovations like M-PESA, social...
January 20 was the third inauguration anniversary of Barack Obama, the first African American president of the US. President Obama was inaugurated on the January 20,...
By: Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Cornel West wrote in 1985 that the black intellectual was “caught between an insolent American society and an insouciant black community.” Twenty-seven years...
By Dennis Matanda Because it is very subjective, one cannot prove, with considerable certainty, that another is racist. Circumstances and conditions have to be taken into...
By Dennis Matanda In his seminally impressive book Not Even Past, Thomas J. Sugrue makes a valid point about race and racists. He concurs that there...
Nigerian billionaire., Aliko Dangote Millionaires and billionaires have budgets – they are financially successful – all the more reason why we could borrow a leaf from...
By Dennis Matanda Although the title of this article is taken from Franz Fanon, it does not, under any circumstances, advocate violence. While Fanon was deeply...
Canada’s self-image as a tolerant nation perversely allows racism to flourish. If you are a Black Canadian, studies continue to show that you are less likely...
Brazil’s public self-image of a ‘racial democracy’ is being challenged as black Brazilians struggle to overturn centuries of racism Aleixo Joaquim da Silva was working in...
A barrier for Cuba’s blacks Six-foot-two, brown skinned and with semi-curly hair, Denny walked confidently into a government warehouse for a recent job interview. Sitting across...