African nations are resisting the United States plan to remove Nigerian born Akinwunmi Adesina, the current President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), and replace it with their candidate. This is what the current brouhaha is about. Moreover, it is not unique to Africa. History is repeating itself. Those rationales[Read More…]
Opinion
Alagi Saidy-Barrow: The Lies I Believed
When you hear literacy rates, what comes to your mind? Something along the lines of those who can read and write right? And those who can read and write are often those of us who claim to read and write in English or French or even Arabic. When you talk[Read More…]
Njundu Drammeh: Let’s Engage In A Serious National Conversation
This our society must engage in serious conversation with itself, a special kind of soul searching or ‘introspective retrospection’, both about its present and future, about what society it really wants to build and what the building blocks must be. This conversation must be very serious, engaging, honest, truthful, candid,[Read More…]