US-Africa relations: The Beginings

May 30, 2021     / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

The presence of Africans in the America’s can be argued it predated 1492 though since the formation of the greatest experiment on Earth in 1776, the official United States of America – Africa relations began before World War II, when the United States only directly dealt with the former American colony of Liberia, the independent nation of Ethiopia, and the semi-independent nation of Egypt. The beginning of this official US-Africa relationship was not only reinforced by the need to internationalize American values but also due to the undying drive of African-Americans to reconnect to their roots. Although US-Africa dialogue and…

Africa’s COVID-19 solution lies in information and not isolation-A look at Hubei vs New York

March 31, 2020     / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

The black death pandemic is estimated to have killed up to 60% of Europe which was an estimate of 450 million people in the 14th century. Today a virus can travel first class on KLM to Africa and infect millions In Taiwan, when an infected person leaves their home or turns the phone off the police and local authority will be alerted and the person will be visited within 15 minutes The Co-100 app shares when the person tested positive, their nationality, gender and age. Africa’s Advantage in the war with COVID-19 Interesting to note how the richer nations have been first…

Branding Time: Cultural Construct

January 16, 2020     / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

I hope you made the transition into this New Year exactly as you needed it to be… among family, friends and loved ones…. sufficient food and drinks to keep everyone around the table savoring the exchange…. with love and candor…. in laughter, joy and harmony…. Closing 2019 and entering a new decade 2020… another memorable 525600 minutes of happiness, sadness, successes, failures and many emotions stemming from life experiences that we can now call a thing of the past and we work to envision 31536000 seconds (31622400 on leap year) of what is to come. As an Ethiopian born North…