Beware Of Africa Misinformation, Says Africa Agenda Director

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Dur­ing the 36th Annu­al Black World Con­fer­ence at Met­ro­pol­i­tan State Uni­ver­si­ty of Den­ver on Feb­ru­ary 13, Africa Agen­da founder George Bamu spoke about African Pol­i­tics and the West­ern Media. It’s a sub­ject that the orga­ni­za­tion and its lead­ers hold near and dear to heart. Africa Agen­da, a U.S. 501c (3) non-prof­it was found­ed with a mission…

Nigerian Elections Lead the News

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There has been plen­ty of news relat­ing to the African con­ti­nent over the last sev­er­al weeks but Saturday’s pres­i­den­tial elec­tion in Nige­ria is the one event that gar­nered the most head­lines.  The pres­i­den­tial elec­tions were held on Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 23 a week after it was delayed by the country’s Inde­pen­dent Nation­al Elec­tions Com­mis­sion (INEC). The…

Understanding the Cameroon Anglophne Crisis

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This analy­sis was part­ly com­piled using infor­ma­tion from Africa Agenda’s pre­sen­ta­tion “Under­stand­ing the Cri­sis in Cameroon” which was held at the Pos­ner Cen­ter for Inter­na­tion­al Devel­op­ment on Sep­tem­ber 26, 2018.  Dur­ing the pre­sen­ta­tion, Cameroon­ian jour­nal­ist Franklin Sone Bayen, through a con­fer­ence call from the region­al cap­i­tal of Buea, shared his pre-elec­­tion expe­ri­ences with jour­nal­ists and international…

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African Community In Colorado Enter the Rough and Tumble of US Politics

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Edi­tor’s Note: This post was pub­lished before the Novem­ber 6, 2020, U.S. midterm elec­tions. The  results show Jason Crow defeat­ing Mike Coff­man by 10 points (54.1 by 42.9)  With­out a doubt, one of the hottest races in the 2018 U.S. midterm elec­tion is being fought in Colorado’s Front Range which includes Auro­ra, Cen­ten­ni­al, Brighton, and…

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

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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…

What Can Official Visits Tell Us About U.S.-Africa Relations?

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As U.S. Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma’s pres­i­den­cy winds down, we at Africa Agen­da feel it is impor­tant to look back at what he and his admin­is­tra­tion did — or did­n’t do— for the African con­ti­nent over the past 8 years or so. Oba­ma him­self is half African; born to a Kenyan father and an Amer­i­can moth­er. It…