Tidiane Kassé

In some African cultures, travel is an initiatory act. One becomes a man when he leaves his family to go far to discover other people and other cultures, to confront the real world realities. This means going away from the comfort and care of a mother, far from the protection of a father.

For ten years the death toll of African migrants has been endless. In the Atlantic Ocean or the Indian Ocean, in the Sahara desert or the Mediterranean, the dramas of emigration play a scenario where woes are never ending.

When you are fifty today in Africa, which coincides with fifty years of formal independence of the continent, the Pan-Africanist ideals you can feel inside, the thirst for sovereignty that is irrepressible in your heart, rebellion that nurtures within in order to break the chains of mental slaver

When in the 1980s UNESCO was calling for a new world communications order in the name of allowing Southern voices to be heard within a fairer global system, the concern was to exist. The media landscape was at a mere embryonic stage in Africa, with poor content.

When we talk of a ‘food crisis’, what are we referring to? Beyond cold and disembodied statistics, a Malian journalist has visited a few parts of Niger and reports on means of life, indeed, to surviving.[1]

Gabon's constitutional court has confirmed the results of the country's presidential elections of 30 August, putting Ali Ben Bongo in power.

The death of Omar Bongo on 7 May caused ripples across Franco-Africa. The late Gabonese president was a central figure in this shady web of political and economic ties. During his 41-year rule, he was able to weave and consolidate ties between France and Africa.

Many African countries have been said to be geological scandals.