Kwame Nkrumah

On Tuesday 7 February 2017, the University of Ghana and its Institute of African Studies installed Professor Horace Campbell as the 3^rd Kwame Nkrumah Chair of African Studies.

The Thabo Mbeki I Know is a mighty engaging tome comprising 539 pages and 44 contributors – excluding the Forewords by Barney Afako and Mahmood Mamdani.  The short contributions are insightful in shedding light on the personality, politics and life of the former President of South A

Note: This is the text of a lecture delivered at Henry Ford College in Dearborn, Michigan, in honor of African American History Month on February 8, 2017.

This festival, under the theme of Global Africa 2063, is seeking to rekindle the ideals of African redemption in troubling times.

One leading figure in the 20^th century movement for African liberation in the United States and around the world is Audley Eloise Moore, widely known as Queen Mother Moore.

Change has come to Ghana. Following Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, fellow septuagenarian President Akufo-Addo has come to office on the back of a campaign messaging centred on change.

This is the second and final part of an essay that we carried last week entitled, Pan-Africanism, women’s emancipation and the meaning of socialist development

During July 1960 a historic gathering of African women from throughout the continent and Diaspora took place in Accra, Ghana. This West African state had been liberated from British colonialism just three years before under the leadership of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) headed by Dr.

[Editor’s Note: Dr Motsoko Pheko deliverd this message of solidarity to the world-wide Pan African Convention held at Orlando, SOWETO, Azania 13 -15 June 2016.]

May 25, 2016 marks the 53rd anniversary of the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), now known as the African Union (AU) since 2002.