Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini who recently described African migrant workers as “slaves” has filed a defamation suit against the country’s first black cabinet minister of Congolese descent for calling his far-right party “racist” in 2014. Cécile Kyenge will face trial in the northern city of Piacenza over comments made in anContinue reading “The Italian minister who described Africans as “slaves” sues the country’s first black minister”
Author Archives: Ismail Akwei
After over 50 years, France admits pre-independence torture of Algerians but fails to apologize
Ruled by France for 130 years, Algerians from 1954 to 1962 fought against their colonial masters for independence and as a result, the French took the lives of about 1.5 million indigenes. The Algerian War of Independence started by members of the National Liberation Front (FLN) saw brutality and torture meted out to Algerians byContinue reading “After over 50 years, France admits pre-independence torture of Algerians but fails to apologize”
This Italian deputy prime minister just called African migrant workers ‘slaves’
Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini has described African migrant workers as “slaves” during a closed-door session of a migration and security conference hosted by Austria. “I’m paid by citizens to help our young people start having children again the way they did a few years ago, and not to uprootContinue reading “This Italian deputy prime minister just called African migrant workers ‘slaves’”
Exploring Kofi Annan’s indelible mark left on Africa as he joins his ancestors
The first and only black African United Nations Secretary-General is no more, but his legacies in the continent are burgeoning and will never be forgotten on the face of the earth. Kofi Atta Annan who was buried in Accra, Ghana, on September 13, 2018, after his death on August 18, 2018, in Switzerland following a short illness, isContinue reading “Exploring Kofi Annan’s indelible mark left on Africa as he joins his ancestors”
The life and journey of Mae Jemison, the first black woman to travel in space
She is an American engineer, physician and a former NASA astronaut who went into orbit aboard the space shuttle Endeavor on September 12, 1992. Mae Carol Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama, on October 17, 1956, and she loved to dance and science. She grew up in Chicago and began dancing at the age of 11. SheContinue reading “The life and journey of Mae Jemison, the first black woman to travel in space”
Ismail Akwei 