By Chido Nwangwu | ThisDay
This Tuesday, November 3, 2020, a substantial number of eligible Americans will go to the polls to vote for the presidential, congressional and local elections. The majesty of the American electoral system is that this has gone on every four years — since 1789, at the time of the founding of this country, the greatest country known to human civilization.
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by Michelle Gavin | Council for Foreign Relations
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By KOVIE BIAKOLO | The Atlantic
In February 2017, Tayo left Nigeria for the United States. (I am calling Tayo by her nickname because she feared that using her full name could threaten her green-card petition.) Two years earlier, a cousin who lived in New York had introduced her over the phone to a man he worked with; the two began a friendship that soon turned into a long-distance romance.
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By Patrick Smith | The Africa Report.
In a week’s time, Americans will see their votes counted in an election seen universally as the most consequential for half a century. Consequential for the direction and stability of the country for decades, and for the international system it has dominated.
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by Karen Attiah, Global Opinions editor | The Washington Post
The “giant of Africa” is trying to crush its people. Nigerians across all walks of life, both in the country and in the diaspora, have been protesting police brutality and state violence for nearly two weeks. On Monday, the protests got so large that Lagos, the continent’s largest city, was effectively shut down.
Continue reading “#EndSars protests: Nigeria’s useless leaders are trying to crush its people. Africa’s leaders are silent.”
By Leila Hanafi and Sarah Alaoui | Morocco World News
Washington D.C.- The stakes in a presidential race have never been as high as the ones before us this November, with incumbent Donald J. Trump facing former Vice President Joseph Biden. Never before has an election felt so urgent and so personal.
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by Kyle Murphy | Just Security
U.S. democracy is facing its greatest challenge in a generation, simultaneously confronting an authoritarian leader, a global pandemic, and the consequences of centuries of systemic racism and inequality. Americans tend to think of our country as democracy’s exemplar, and the United States has a long history of pointing out governance problems abroad, suggesting steps to solve them, and often devoting resources to various forms of intervention.
Continue reading “We the People: Lessons from Africa for Defeating Authoritarianism in 2020 U.S. Election”
By Reuben E. Brigety II | Foreign Affairs
In April 2013, when I was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, I accompanied former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Mayor of Atlanta Andrew Young to a meeting with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. Then Secretary of State John Kerry had dispatched us to Harare to convince Mugabe to allow free and fair elections later that summer.
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By Judd Devermont and Aubrey Hruby | Bloomberg
Against a backdrop of rising tensions with the Soviets in 1959, President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech in New York that presented a new strategic approach toward African nations and U.S. global leadership in a world defined by great-power competition.
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I am an immigrant American. Born in Lagos, Nigeria, my family arrived in the United States piecemeal. My father was the first of us to settle here. Three years later, my mom joined him. Trailing her by four years, I immigrated to this country when I was 7.
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By Henry Okoroafor | Premium Times
A mere mention of the Island of Guantanamo (GITMO) Bay, Cuba evokes a feeling of austere and solitary confinement, strict isolation and perhaps exclusion from normalcy. The United States Naval Base on the Island of Guantanamo is the oldest U.S. military base overseas (122 years) and the only one in a communist nation. It is a very beautiful and blue water Island, enclosed by the Caribbean Ocean.
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BY AUBREY HRUBY | FOREIGN POLICY
When one of Nigeria’s biggest artists, Burna Boy, released his new album, Twice as Tall, in August, it became an instant global success. Burna Boy’s international popularity had skyrocketed the year before with the release of his fourth studio album, African Giant, which garnered the artist his first Grammy nomination and sold out arenas in Europe and North America.
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By Teresa Gutierrez | Workers World
Before being admitted to the hospital for coronavirus infection, Donald Trump spent the last two weeks on yet another vile anti-immigrant tirade.
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Editorial by The Nation Newspaper
HE is a Nigerian-born Canadian leader of whom his country of birth is proud. Kaycee (Kelechi) Madu just made history as the first person of African origin to be appointed Minister of Justice and Solicitor-General of Alberta, a province of Canada. His appointment to that office was not only historic, he has a historic mission and came a long way in his professional career and public service in his country of domicile to attain that height.
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By Dr Malcolm Fabiyi | naijapremium.com
The Nigerian presence in America goes back to the earliest periods in American history. Recent genetic studies have confirmed that Nigerian heritage is extensive in the gene pool of African Americans whose ancestors were brought during the Transatlantic slave trade in the 1700s and 1800s.
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In this article, International journalist, migrant activist and TED Fellow Yasin Kakande, author of a new book on the historical and contemporary reasons for African immigration, ‘Why We Are Coming’, traces the intersection between Black Lives Matter and African Migrations in the Covid-19 Pandemic.
by Keith Asante | The London Economic
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By Dave Seminara | WSJ
The left keeps saying America is systemically racist and President Trump is a white supremacist. So why do so many black Africans want to immigrate?
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By Carl Manlan and Efosa Ojomo | The Korea Times
Eradicating poverty and boosting prosperity in Africa starts in the boardroom. And it requires African business leaders to use their positions to foster more inclusive economic growth that benefits all stakeholders ― customers, employees, suppliers, and communities ― rather than focusing on short-term profits that fail to lift up vulnerable communities.
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By Peter Beinart | The Atlantic
Of the many questions at stake in this fall’s election, one of the less obvious is this: Will the United States remain a country where someone like Barack Obama or Kamala Harris—a person of color with immigrant parents—is likely to be born? The answer depends, in part, on whether America’s universities retain their global appeal. If Donald Trump wins reelection, they may not.
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By Marius Kothor | The New Times
The sea-washed, sunset gates of the United States are being closed to the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. President Trump and his administration have slashed the Refugee Resettlement Program, which allows people fleeing war, persecution and famine to legally move to the United States.
Continue reading “My Family Escaped From Togo To America As Refugees, Now Trump Is Trying To Kill The Program That Saved My Life”
By Stephen Ndegwa | CGTN
That U.S. President Donald Trump does not have an iota of respect for black people is not debatable. Trump has not even shied away from going on record about it, unofficially of course, openly expressing his utter disgust for Africans, both in Africa and the diaspora.
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John Vaudry | Gananoque Reporter
When the topic of immigration comes up, we are usually reminded that we are all immigrants, and this is true. The founders of Pembroke, were born in Scotland and Ireland; others came here later from Germany and other parts of Europe. Even the Aboriginal people are descended from migrants, if you go back far enough.
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By Jesse Samasuwo | Atlantic Sentinel
Donald Trump has never been to Africa. At least not as president. Not for six decades, since John F. Kennedy, has an American president even met with fewer African leaders than Trump. During JFK’s time, of course, most African states were still colonial territories. His attitude toward the continent appears to be mired in either indifference or outright hostility, as his “shithole countries” comment and repeated (but unsuccessful) efforts to cut foreign aid demonstrate.
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By Emmanuel Onwubiko | The Nigerian Voice
Before the end of the year, it will become clearer who between the Republican Party and Democratic Party of the United States of America will occupy the White House for another four years. For a fact whoever occupies the White House becomes the leader of the free world and indeed the policies espoused by such a person significantly affects the human populace globally with Nigeria and Africa not being an exception.
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By Devin Walker | Statesman
When I reflect on the Black Lives Matter movement and the many viral images that have galvanized protesters into action, my mind keeps going back to a disquieting video that did not result in belligerent shouting or bloodshed.
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The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) is making the news again as the Trump administration continues its efforts to diminish the program.
Continue reading “Africans Should Fight for DACA, Too”
By Travis L. Adkins | The Grio
Four years ago, Donald Trump asked Black voters, “What do you have to lose?” As a foreign policy professional with a focus on Africa and its diaspora, it is clear that we have lost much. The defining elements of President Trump’s foreign policy posture toward Africa, its diaspora and other communities of color have mirrored his domestic posture. Trump failed to engage them in positive and constructive ways and consistently called into question the intelligence, legitimacy, worthiness of millions of people at home and abroad.
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An Algerian-American remembers her grandfather and the war that shaped her family.
By Nora Belblidia | AL JAZEERA
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For democrats in Africa, the next three months will be pivotal in deciding whether the US will be a foe or an ally.
by Patrick Gathara | Al Jazeera
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With the poor representation of Africa in the media and the lack of avenues for African creatives to express themselves, two former Turner/CNN staff, Chidi Afulezi, from Nigeria, and Zain Verjee from Kenya, joined forces in 2015 to form AKoma. Conceived as a platform that would enable and unleash Africa’s talent on the world, Akoma had the mantra “The most important person in Africa is the storyteller.” After 4 years trying to sell the message of Akoma to customers and investors, the duo pulled the plug on their enterprise. This article narrates the tortuous journey of Akoma.
by Chidi Afulezi | Medium
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