Leonard Quarshie

America is a generous country. Anyone who denies this is not honest. This country, despite its many contradictions, is more welcoming of immigrants than any country on earth...

May we overcome the demons of ethnicity and religious strife; and recognize our common humanity as a people. May we come to regard difference and diversity as strength instead of weakness...

Only a decade and half ago, most of what constituted entertainment on television in Africa were B-grade Hollywood and Bollywood movies. Contrast that with now. African movies are everywhere. The access to these movies is so widespread, it’s unbelievable...

I wonder what Nkrumah would think about the impact of AIDS?  What would he think about Barack Obama?  Nkrumah’s warnings about neo-colonialism are well-known, but five decades later, what would he think about the state of regional integration?

Sometimes, African immigrants like myself, don’t sufficiently appreciate the sacrifices our African-American brethren had to make for us to enjoy the things we do today. The fact is-a lot of things we take for granted today-we owe to their struggle for equal and civil rights...

Mr. Obama’s choice of Ghana as his only stop in his maiden trip to sub-Saharan Africa since assuming the American presidency has touched off a row in the region...

Life can be unkind here, sometimes. So it is everywhere else in the world, you may say. But in America, it is especially. We come here, compared to other places, dreaming of possibility. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses…,” the statue of liberty, beckons.    Then we face reality...