Colorado’s Africans and US Politics

                          The African Com­mu­ni­ty in Col­orado con­tin­ues to grow. As this growth is pro­ject­ed to con­tin­ue, cov­er­age of Colorado’s Africans by local and inter­na­tion­al news media shows us how impor­tant the com­mu­ni­ty is to the state’s pol­i­tics.  The com­mu­ni­ty in Col­orado brings together…

Media in the U.S. Praise Ethiopia-Eritrea Détente

After almost twen­ty years of a resent­ful stale­mate between Ethiopia and Eritrea, the recent­ly elect­ed Prime Min­is­ter of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, announced that the gov­ern­ment will ful­ly accept the pre­vi­ous­ly unrec­og­nized 2000 Algiers peace agree­ment. Despite the bit­ter dis­pute over the bor­der town of Badme, the new Ethiopi­an admin­is­tra­tion is acknowl­edg­ing the futil­i­ty of disagreement…

African Nations’ Participation in the 2018 World Cup in Russia

Edi­tor’s Note: As the 2018 World Cup in Rus­sia pro­gressed we assigned Ife Nwosu to give us a score­card of what was hap­pen­ing. Here you’ll find Ife’s obser­va­tions, first record­ed in July. This year’s World Cup is tak­ing place in Rus­sia. And as always, the com­pe­ti­tion is fierce, espe­cial­ly among the four African coun­tries still participating.…