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Beyond Borders: Ghana’s Arrests of Undocumented Migrants and the Unfinished Dream of African Unity
By Moses Desire Kouyo When uniformed officers from the Ghana Immigration Service swept through Kaneshie, Abossey Okai, and Kwame Nkrumah Circle in the early hours of Friday, May 16, rounding up street vendors, beggars, and undocumented migrants, they...
A History of Leadership at the AfDB, What Does It Tell Us?
By Moses Desire Kouyo Since its inception in 1964, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has been a crucial institution in Africa’s journey toward economic independence and regional integration. Yet, a look at its presidential history reveals more than...
The Green Mirage: How Foreign Climate Agendas Are Displacing Africans in the Name of Conservation
By Moses Desire Kouyo It began with satellite images, climate reports, and pledges made in distant cities—New York, Paris, Oslo. Leaders of the Global North, freshly adorned with green credentials, vowed to fight climate change by protecting forests,...
From Timbuktu to TikTok: The Digital Reawakening of Africa’s Intellectual Legacy
By Moses Desire Kouyo In a sun-baked room in Accra, a group of Ghanaian teenagers scroll through TikTok—not to watch dances or pranks, but to learn. One video explains the Sankofa philosophy; another unpacks the Mali Empire’s trade...
The Unseen Borderlines: How Colonial Boundaries Still Shape African Daily Life
By Moses Desire Kouyo In the quiet town of Elubo, on Ghana’s western edge, life moves to the rhythm of the border. Traders cross daily into Côte d’Ivoire to sell goods. Families are split across nationalities. Children grow...
Ama Ata Aidoo vs. the Neocolonial Mind: A Literary Knockout in Defense of African Dignity
By: Moses Desire Kouyo In the grand pantheon of African letters, few voices have thundered with the clarity, wit, and moral authority of Ama Ata Aidoo. A novelist, poet, playwright, and public intellectual par excellence, Aidoo spent her...
Cardinals Seek a Credible Pope for a Church in Crisis — Will Africa Have Its Moment?
As cardinals from around the globe converge to elect the next head of the Roman Catholic Church, they face challenges that go beyond choosing between a progressive or conservative, or even selecting the Church's first Asian or African...
Justice Denied: Kenya’s Gen Z Protests and the Fight Against State Violence
By Moses Desire Kouyo In the heart of Nairobi on June 25, 2024, a generation’s dream for a fairer future was met with gunfire. What began as a peaceful anti-tax protest led by Kenya’s youth — the so-called...
AFRICOM’s Empire Crumbles: How African Sovereignty Is Breaking the Chains of U.S. Militarism
By Moses Desire Kouyo For decades, the African continent was treated like an open chessboard for U.S. strategic interests – a place to build drone bases, launch airstrikes, and broker deals without the courtesy of true partnership. But...
Ibrahim Traoré: Burkina Faso’s Revolutionary Firebrand Lighting a New Path for Africa
By Moses Desire Kouyo In the parched, golden plains of Burkina Faso, a familiar revolutionary spirit is stirring again.This time, it is not Thomas Sankara astride his motorbike rallying a continent's dreams, it is Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the...