In Case You Missed It: 7/18/16-7/24/16
This week’s most important headlines out of and about Africa.
In this week’s news, Bill Gates invests $5 billion into the African conti...
Mandela’s Leadership Helped South Africa: Ajume Wingo
The death of Mandela is not to be regretted and mourned, but to be consecrated and celebrated.
There is another proverb from my home o...
Mandela Gave Up Power When It Could Have Corrupted Him
There is a saying from my home of Nso (in the North West Region of Cameroon) that what is regrettable is death in life, not clinical de...
Obama’s Africa Visit Was No “Guilt Trip”
There is continuing talk about U.S. President Barack Obama’s recent visit to sub-Saharan Africa. The six-day trip, from June 27 to July...
Mandela: Content of His Character
Photo Credit Nelson Mandela
Growing up in Uganda in the 1960s, I became keenly aware of this man, Nelson Mandela, who was one of th...
Youth Instrumental for Democracy in Cameroon
My wife and I traveled to Cameroon in April this year to visit friends that we had made on a trip in 2010. Being our second trip to Ca...