Feint and Margin

I heard a story of an Italian man who married a black woman, adopted a couple of black kids and lives in what can be termed a wealthy, white neighbourhood. The kids attend the local wealthy schools like all the kids around them, they all live in a nice house and they are living a [...]

We are all in a sense, ethnically located and our ethnic identities are crucial to our subjective sense of who we are, but this, should not undermine our efforts as a nation to develop, unite and see ourselves as one people. Ethnicity is not a recent phenomenon. In fact, one of the most controversial legacies [...]

Once upon a time, in a far away land, somewhere in Africa there lived a very humble man who just loved his God. He obviously had no problem expressing this love and as poor as he was, he had such admirable courage. With his small old sheep skin drum under his arm he will roam [...]

I recently had an experience with my thirteen year old sister which has brought my attention to the beautiful attitude of gratitude which we do not appreciate. One morning, she approached me while I was brushing my teeth and asked me if she could wear one of my shoes to school. Her request suddenly grabbed [...]

In the early 1960s, the Canadian thinker, Herbert Marshall McLuhan upon witnessing the improvement of electronic mass communication, predicted that in the new age of electronic media, mankind will move from individualism and fragmentation to a collective identity, a new form of social organization he labeled the ‘Global Village’.   McLuhan was, however, not the [...]

“To be black was to be a beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only us were strong enough to bear” – Barack Obama.   The sun was smacking hot, emptying its bile down a tetchy underwhelmed atmosphere unwilling to even shield off just a corn of infrared from unscrupulous eco-degrading humans. [...]

What is a black man’s uniform? Is it blue overalls and aging paint-splattered boots? Is it baggy jeans worn nearly to the knees? With an oversize tee and baseball cap? Or a Fubu jacket with enough gold in your teeth To rival your fingers and neck?

A few weeks ago, I read an exceptional book by Thomas C. Oden titled, How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind, which given the central role that Christianity played in the development of Western civilisation for the majority of the centuries before the Age of Enlightenment, revealed the critical role that African thinking and African writers [...]

This Poem was written during the Junior Achievement (JA) Awards held in Ghana. Junior Achievement is an initiative which helps young people to bring entrepreneurial collaborations between schools in Africa. Zainab Abdallah shared her poem titled ‘Our history’ with over 200 guest during the gala dinner held at the La Palm Hotel in Accra Ghana. [...]

Nepos from Latin word meaning “nephew or grandchild” A story is told of a missionary teacher; let us call him Mr Smith. Mr Smith came from a faraway country in Europe to give himself to a life of service to God in a country in South America. Mr Smith was appalled by the despicable behavior [...]