African leaders have voiced alarm that the international financial crisis threatens to torpedo efforts to fight poverty in poor nations. During a UN meeting on Africa's development needs on Monday, the leaders told the developed countries to honor their aid commitments to help it tackle hunger and poverty. Africa is in danger...

What we know of socio-cultural and scientific civilisation today, it has been established, started from Africa. Per Ankh, the house of life, in the ancient Egypt was a brain-home from where knowledge spread to other parts of the world. World-class African thinkers such as Cheik Anta Diop, Ayi Kwei Armah and Theophile Obenga...

Kwame Nkrumah said, “If Africa's multiple resources were used in her own development, they could place her among the modernised continents of the world. But her resources have been, and still are being used for the greater development of overseas interests.” Despite this, they still tell us freemarket is the answer;...

Pan-African Congress was a series of five meetings in 1919, 1921, 1923, 1927, and 1945 that were intended to address the issues facing Africa due to European colonization of much of the continent. It won the reputation of a Pace maker for decolonization in Africa and in the West Indies. It made significant advance for the Pan...

Coming as it did immediately after the upheavals of World War II, the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester marked a watershed in black internationalist activities around the Atlantic. Though ostensibly under DuBois's guidance, it was organized primarily by socialist Pan-Africanists in Britain, especially George Padmore,...