By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – He’s elusive. He escapes, he hides. Police keep chasing him like a video game character or a superhero in a movie. But despite their best efforts, authorities have been unable to stop Robert Kyagulanyi – a member of parliament and a popular reggae singer who […]
Ghana’s Year of Return Brings Call to Broaden Scope
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – When Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo pronounced 2019 as the Year of Return, his words resounded with warmth and joy to all people of African descent. So began a year-long calendar of events including concerts, art shows, visits to heritage sites, fashion shows, movie premieres and […]
Passing of Acclaimed Nigerian Novelist Grieved
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike, novelist extraordinaire, passed this month into eternity, writes Nigerian author Okey Ndibe. Born April 28, 1931, he had a rich life as an academic, bureaucrat, father to an only son, Osita Ike (who preceded him in death), husband (to Adebimpe Olurinsola Ike, […]
Liberians Rejoice Over A Promised Path to U.S. Citizenship
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – As the Trump administration turns down an ever-growing number of applications for asylum, it surprised many that some 5,000 Liberians in the United States have been granted a path to citizenship. In fact, it was the product of decades of effort by the Liberian community […]
Bank Accounts of Angola’s Pampered Rich Frozen
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Some called her Princess. Others labeled her the beautiful face of the dictatorship – always beaming from the pages of Fortune, Forbes and other high-finance magazines which flattered her as Africa’s “First Woman Billionaire”. Today, the daughter of Angola’s ex-president is in a messy fight […]
Kenya and Uganda Partner With the UN to Achieve SDGs
By Siddharth Chatterjee and Rosa Malango UN Resident Coordinators in Kenya and Uganda, Siddharth Chatterjee and Rosa Malango respectively report in a blog how the two East African neighbours have kick-started a Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by partnering with the UN to address challenges that transcend country borders. The UN […]
Eminent Kenyan Writer Urges Africa ‘To Do Things for Itself’
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Over the last 100 years, Africa has been the eternal donor to the West but has been represented as always reliant on aid from the Western community. “We must find a way of reversing this by becoming makers of our own raw materials,” asserts Kenyan […]
‘Season Africa 2020’ Recalls Much Loved Nigerian Curator
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – One of the more ambitious exhibits of African art to showcase French-speaking, English-speaking and Portuguese-speaking Africa, including North Africa, is scheduled to open June 2020 and run for six months. The occasion will also mark the passing this year of Bisi Silva, an adventurous curator […]
African Leaders Face Citizens’ Insistence on Term Limits
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | CONAKRY (IDN) – African leaders are facing an upsurge of citizen opposed to questionable re-election schemes, including tampering with the constitution, that leave countries in the hands of one or two families for decades. The latest upsurge is in Guinea where the political opposition has accused […]
Five Tech Giants Linked To ‘Cruel and Brutal Use of Children’ In Congo Mines
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Do kids work in coal mines? In 1910, an estimated 2 million American children under the age of 15 were working in factories and mines for low wages and long shifts. Photographs by Lewis Hine of New York revealed the depraved exploitation of children, some […]