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Africa’s Enduring Crossroads: Lessons from the Fall of Haile Selassie and the Shadow of a New Cold War

By Fidel Amakye Owusu On August 27, 1975, the world learned of the death of Emperor Haile Selassie – a moment that marked not just the...

Foreign Intervention in Africa Continues

A Diaspora View of Africa1 year ago

Foreign Intervention in Africa Continues

By Gregory Simpkins Since the Scramble for Africa in the 1880s, and in fact even before then, various foreign nations have had an abiding interest in...

Reflecting on the fall of Ethiopia's Haile Selassie, 50 years later

Life2 years ago

Reflecting on the fall of Ethiopia’s Haile Selassie, 50 years later

On this day fifty years ago – September 12, 1974, Ethiopia’s Emperor Haile Selassie I was deposed by the Armed Forces Coordinating Committee, known as the...

Owusu on Africa: Africa in the 2023 UN General Assembly: "Reparations, Unfair Treatment, Western democracy...?"

Opinion3 years ago

Owusu on Africa: Africa in the 2023 UN General Assembly: “Reparations, Unfair treatment, Western democracy…”

By Fidel Amakye Owusu When John Rockefeller Jr. donated land to the United Nations (UN) after the Second World War, signs of the Cold War were...

Jamaica's Olivia Grange conferred with one of Ethiopia’s highest honors

Life3 years ago

Jamaica’s Olivia Grange conferred with one of Ethiopia’s highest honors

Jamaica’s Culture Minister Olivia Grange was invested as a Dame Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of the Star of Honour of Ethiopia. The investiture was...

Africa caught in the middle of Big-Power Conflicts

A Diaspora View of Africa4 years ago

Africa caught in the middle of Big-Power Conflicts

By Gregory Simpkins Much has been written and said about how the world’s big powers have squeezed Africa into the middle of their global conflicts –...