Today we celebrate a remarkable story, the election of Ilhan Omar as the first Somali-American legislator in the U.S. The former refugee who fled the Somali...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has come under fire for his xenophobic remarks against Somalis in Minnesota. Trump said Somali migrants are a “disaster” and Minnesota...
What’s not great about America? That was the question foremost in the mind of freelance South African journalist Carien du Plessis when she stepped onto an...
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has been nominated for this year’s Forbes Africa Person of the Year Awards. Magufuli was nominated for spearheading “the economic turnaround made...
Troubling headlines from South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Kenya are putting a dent in the “Africa rising” narrative. So, is Africa reeling or rising? George Issaias,...