Krobo People Of Ghana: Beads And Initiation Rites
The Krobo people are grouped as part of Ga-Dangme ethnolinguistic group and they are also the largest group of the seven Dangbe ethnic groups of Southeastern Ghana. They are farming […]
Category Archives: People
Mandela Can Leave Us In Peace, His Work Is done
The notion that SA will dissolve into race riots at the news of Nelson Mandela’s death is so unlikely as to be ridiculous, writes Verashni Pillay. News that our beloved […]
RIP Michael Hastings. Here’s His Advice to Young Journalists.
Michael Hastings, a respected young journalist for Rolling Stone and BuzzFeed, was killed in a car accident in Los Angeles Tuesday, according to his boss, BuzzFeed Editor in Chief Ben Smith. Hastings, who was 33, was […]
Recollections of Chinua Achebe, the African Lion Who Told Our Story
I was blessed to meet Professor Achebe on several occasions, twice at conferences where he was the keynote speaker. First at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, at the Conference Across […]
Chinua Achebe’s Anti-colonial Novels Are Still Relevant Today
Chinua Achebe‘s mission statement, by his own admission, was to “set the record straight”. His seminal work, Things Fall Apart, was the first in an African trilogy that […]
Raising Africa’s Future Leaders
I recently learned about the African Leadership Academy and haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. Here is a world class secondary boarding school in South Africa that admits […]
Afrocentric Confessions 