"Is this really how to save Africa?" asks Tanzanian columnist Ayub Rioba, a day after Bill Clinton has left Africa. "We appreciate generous and humane contributions from people like Bill Clinton," he writes in The Citizen, a respected Tanzanian national daily paper. "But we [Africans] must also show that we are doing something. We cannot sit just like couch potatoes waiting for others to come and give us medicine."

"We have been made permanent recipients of aid, funds, scholarships, food, medic… Continue

It was such an embarrassing situation for me when I had to finish my college thesis writing and I was not getting enough time to understand thesis paper writing guidelines, and I wasn’t getting enough thesis writing help.

It was torturing to see others celebrating the success of their college thesis paper leaving me behind. Well, I never lost hope and I once thought of getting my thesis paper written by online thesis writing service. I… Continue

An African woman was almost blinded following her desperate operation to obtain blue eyes.

Shenise Farrell, an African woman obsessed with her appearance was forced to have a restorative sight surgery after enduring a horrendous cosmetic operation to obtain european coloured eyes.

Despite being warned by opticians in the UK not to go ahead with the dangerous vanity procedure, Farrell who read about the £5,000 operation in Central America on the internet - ignored all professional advice on the… Continue

Barack Obama visited Ghana on his first trip to Africa as President of the United States. In his speech in Ghana's Parliament, he stressed the role of good governance and the need for democratic practices and correct policies if the continent is to develop out of poverty.

Just before that, the G8 Summit in Italy agreed on a US$20 billion programme to promote food security in Africa, to help the countries produce their own food instead of relying on food aid or imports. In a press conference, Ob… Continue

The comments on the Durban Conference and what it meant for People of African descent are very instructive and what many of us have known.

Obama's big silence: the race question

Has the president turned his back on black America?

Americans began the summer still celebrating the dawn of a "post-racial" era. They are ending it under no such illusion. T… Continue