Author Archives: Ismail Akwei

It is quite ironic that the Slovenian-American wife of racist U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to visit the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana as part of her two-day tour of the country. Her four-nation Africa tour in itself is a bit unsettling as her husband has viciously denigrated African countries and rejected migrants fromContinue reading “Racist Trump’s wife follows Obama’s steps in Ghana, visits castle that held slaves in dungeons”

Rwanda has passed a law that criminalizes statements and publications deemed humiliating by government officials. “Any person who, verbally, by gestures or threats, in writings or cartoons, humiliates a member of parliament when exercising his/her mandate, a member of the Cabinet, security officers or any other person in charge of a public service in theContinue reading “Kagame has taken it too far with new law that jails Rwandans for ‘humiliating’ officials”

American media may be expecting some headline-making welcome or worse, a protest of a sort for the United States First Lady Melania Trump who arrived in Ghana on the first leg of her four-nation Africa tour. But, NO, no one cares especially after all the ill-treatment and disparaging remarks made against migrants, children of migrants andContinue reading “Melania Trump is in Ghana and — no one cares”

Africa is facing a downward trend in foreign direct investment, which reached a high of $74 billion in 2013 and gradually fell to $41 billion in 2017. This spells doom for the continent’s Agenda 2063 that foresees a well-developed integrated Africa. In its quest to help reverse the trend, the African Development Bank launched theContinue reading “These top 5 African companies embraced pan-Africanism ideals and became the best”