New African articles from February 2009

New African archives from February 2009

We have to say no! to GM food.(READERS' VIEWS)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2009... In reference to the New African cover story: GM Food, Is it Good for Africa? (NA January 2009), I would like to stress that the African continent should not be turned into a giant guinea pig for Western food conglomerates. GM foods have the...

So much to say about NA team.(READERS' VIEWS)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2009... I am an ardent reader of New African magazine, whose place in the future of African history will be larger than Baffour Ankomah and his staff will ever guess. Perhaps I should start by saying that were all the trees of the world to be cut down,...

Viva Carina.(READERS' VIEWS)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2009... Such is the generosity of Africans inspired by the conviction of their ideas that they will grant an opportunity to someone whose views and canards are clearly not worthy of publication. I refer to Carina Ray's column (Every Genocide Has Its...

What joy to see this day.(READERS' VIEWS)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2009... It is no wonder that Dr Martin Luther King's dream has come true. In 1963, Dr King, who abhorred violence and believed in freedom and equal rights, had given that soul-inspiring "I Have a Dream" speech in which he wished that black people in...

Rename Pythagoras' Theorem.(READERS' VIEWS)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2009... I have so far read only a few editions of New African magazine and I am more impressed by its content than I can express in words. It is educative, transformative and morale-boosting to use a few, and inspires us to be proud of ourselves. The...

Our son: overnight, Obama has ensured that the situation in the world should change dramatically. Every black person in the world can now hold his or her head high, anywhere in the world, and without saying a word, proclaim to all and sundry, by gait and demeanour: "We are all truly equal." Cameron Duodu reports.(ELECTIONS)(Viewpoint essay)
February 1, 2009... The inauguration of President Barack Obama as the first-ever black president of the United States comes close to fulfilling the highest dreams of most black people of my generation. Many like me grew up in colonies ruled by white men who lived...

Ghana shows the way: though democracy has gradually taken root in Africa, some elections in the recent past have not been pleasant. Not so in Ghana where elections in December provided so many positive points worth emulating across the continent. Our editor, Baffour Ankomah, returned to his homeland to see how the Ghanaians did it.(ELECTIONS)(National Democratic Congress' John Atta Mills versus New Patriotic Party's Nana Akufo-Addo)(Viewpoint essay)
February 1, 2009... It is 7 January 2009. Ghana's new president, Professor John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills is being inaugurated. The Independence Square in Accra, a huge arena along the Atlantic Ocean built by Kwame Nkrumah's government for such grand occasions, is...