New African

We conclude, with Part 3, Femi Biko's series on how world religions were based on, or borrowed heavily from, African religious systems and repackaged the source they had borrowed from. The last instalment in our May issue ended with the influence of...

There is more to the persistent negative portrayal of Africa by the Western media than meets the eye. The African mind, wherever it lives around the world, is preyed upon to regard the continent as a lost entity, filled with dying people, with no future,...

South Africa. The setting could not have been better for the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. The choice of South Africa is well founded. Iris the birthplace of apartheid, the...

The German parliament recently approved DM10 billion ($4.6bn) compensation payments to more than one million survivors of Nazi-era slave labour. The survivors, mostly from Eastern Europe who missed out on earlier compensation, are each expected...

At last, the Dutch are building a monument to slavery in Amsterdam. But is it an attempt to come clean about their past or just a show to cover the sins of the fathers?, asks our Amsterdam correspondent, The Dutch know all about the usual heroes:...

June marked the 20th anniversary of the first clinical diagnosis of Aids, which at the dawn of the 21st century had emerged not only as the most devastating epidemic the world has ever known, but also as the greatest development challenge to ever confront...

Liberia's flag resembles the Stars and Stripes of USA, its capital city is named after an American president, its constitution is patterned after the U.S. constitution and its official language is English (with an American accent of course). The...

The shock waves over the recent marriage of the controversial faith-healing Catholic archbishop, Emmanuel Milingo, to a Korean doctor, Maria Sung, are still reverberating. But the 71-year-old archbishop says he has no regrets. He exchanged vows...

Germany's first African footballer The Germans seem to have decided to follow the recommendations of New African (May) by taking the first step you had proposed, ie, to start by getting blacks into the national team as one of the steps to uproot...

William Lynch was a slave owner in the Caribbean. In 1712, he was invited by fellow slave owners in the then Colony of Virginia in USA to speak about slave control. Lynch's message is still so true today, 289 years later, that his words ought to be...

African heads of state will celebrate a rare victory, the formation of an African Union, at a historic OAU summit in Lusaka in July -- the first, since the Union became a reality. The Union brings to fruition the long cherished dream of uniting...

I voted for the British Labour Party the first time I ever voted in Britain. [But] when the recent elections were held on 7 June, I did not vote. If I wanted the Conservative Party, I would vote for it, not a pale shadow of itself. I do not know...