Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank Group, delivered a stirring speech at Chatham House, London, England, highlighting Africa’s potential and opportunities. Addressing a diverse audience including diplomats, investors, academics, and media, he underscored Africa’s youthful workforce, renewable energy potential, biodiversity resources, and regional integration. Despite global challenges, Adesina emphasized Africa’s economic resilience, […]
The following is an excerpt from the keynote address by Justice Donald McLeod at the National Black Canadians summit held in Ottawa on the weekend: I stand here not as a judge but as a man, a black man. I was not born Justice McLeod. I was born black. Please do not define me by […]
To: Chris Alexander, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Dear Mr. Alexander, I am sure that you are aware there may be thousands of undocumented persons from West Africa who are here in Canada as failed refugee claimants or otherwise without legal status. I am counsel for a failed refugee claimant from Sierra Leone who has […]
By Glen Ford The real vector of mass death stalking West Africa is not the ebola-carrying fruit bat but a global capitalist system that has plundered Africa for centuries. Public health services are perceived as a threat to global capitalism; private profit is the system’s aim. When Ebola had clearly become unmanageable, President Barack Obama […]
By Shelagh Plunkett When I tell people I spent part of my adolescence in Guyana, most look at me with a blank expression. I imagine them turning their heads a little sideways like a puzzled dog. Guyana? Oh – it must have been fascinating seeing Africa in the 1970s. Things get no clearer when I […]
By Gerald V. Paul “It’s sad.” That’s how a mother of four, who lives hand to mouth, described a Toronto life in poverty. Marie (who does not want her real name used) told Eyes about the stress of not knowing where the next meal, the next supply of clothing and other basic amenities of life […]
College professor making black excellence the norm By Jasminee Sahoye She has been putting in a lot of hard work to foster and encourage African, Black and Caribbean students to aim for excellence and to make excellence the norm. Dr. Beverly-Jean Daniel, founder of the Bridge program at Humber College says the majority of students […]
