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Investigations of Attacks on the Eritrean Diaspora Are Underway

February 17 Eritrean Independence Day Celebration in...

Gaza Is DR Congo, Gaza Is Haiti

How can I hold the knowledge of...

Gaza Is DR Congo, Gaza Is Haiti

How can I hold the knowledge of unspeakable horrors happening far away and not explode inside? How can I sit in my modest but comfortable home, refrigerator well stocked, knowing what unbearable suffering is being inflicted on my brothers and sisters in the human family...

SAVE THE DATE MARCH 3RD – HAITI: A CALL TO ACTION

HAITI: A CALL TO ACTION Sunday, March 3rd, 1-3 pm East Side Arts Alliance 2277 International Blvd. Oakland, CA On the 20th anniversary of the 2004 coup that overthrew the democratically elected administration of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and...

The World beyond Global Disorder

Keynote, 13th Session World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations” – Rhodes, Greece, 9 Oct 2015 The strength of this forum is its civilization focus; let us use it for analysis and remedies. Major forms...

Gaza Is DR Congo, Gaza Is Haiti

How can I hold the knowledge of unspeakable horrors happening far away and not explode inside? How can I sit in my modest but comfortable home, refrigerator well stocked, knowing what unbearable suffering is being inflicted...

Survivors Uncensored: Voices from Rwanda and the Rwandan Diaspora

Most reporting on the Rwandan 1994 atrocities was false and driven by the Clinton administration’s need to hide its culpability. The book Survivors Uncensored allows Rwandans to tell their own story. 21 Sep 2022...

Book Review: The Soul of Uganda Through Song by Michiel van Oosterhout

The Soul of Uganda Through Song by the Dutch journalist, music archivist and documentary filmmaker, Michiel van Oosterhout, is a lyrical telling of Uganda’s history in the period starting at independence in 1962 to...

Cobalt Red: How Congolese Blood Powers Our Lives

Photo Courtesy of Siddharth Kara Siddarth Kara’s book exposes the exploitation behind the Fourth Industrial Revolution. 24 Jan 2024 – “Unspeakable riches have brought the people of the Congo little other than unspeakable pain.” So writes Siddharth Kara in Cobalt Red, How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives. It’s one of the many poetic phrases that make this book easy on the ear but hard on the heart and mind. There’s pleasure in turning the pages of such finely crafted prose, pain in knowing that, if you have half a heart, you’ll never be able to see your smartphone, laptop, tablet, solar power system, or electric car quite the...

Sperm Whales Have Culture Too: Strong Evidence That Clans, Culture, and Dialects Are Not Unique to Humans by Hal Whitehead.

The sperm whale is extreme. They have the largest brains and the largest noses on Earth. The sperm whale’s nose is a huge and...

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Investigations of Attacks on the Eritrean Diaspora Are Underway

February 17 Eritrean Independence Day Celebration in Charlotte, North Carolina. The event was attacked...

Investigations of Attacks on the Eritrean Diaspora Are Underway

February 17 Eritrean Independence Day Celebration in Charlotte, North Carolina. The event was attacked by violent protestors who threw bricks at police and set a tractor trailer on fire. Police made eight arrests. 28...

Leif Eiriksson Peace Award 2022 to Johan Galtung

From the Peace 2000 Institute an d Mirpuri Foundation The award was presented on 8 July 2022 by Thor Magnusson from the Peace 2000 Institute through the Mirpuri Foundation at the Lisbon Opera House, Portugal....

Gaza Is DR Congo, Gaza Is Haiti

How can I hold the knowledge of unspeakable horrors happening far away and not explode inside? How can I sit...

Too Fast to Be a Woman

[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/782302072" params="color=ff5500" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] When South African...

Charmant Mushaga: The refugee who has found stardom in Uganda

By Musinguzi Bamuturaki The gifted Congolese guitarist, singer-songwriter and band...

OVERLOAD, A Bullfrog Films

OVERLOAD reveals the increasing toxic burden on human health...

CONCERNING VIOLENCE – Lauryn Hill Narrated Colonialism Documentary by Göran Hugo Olsson

Göran Olsson is a filmmaker from Sweden, well known from his earlier documentary: “The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975”. The documentary telling about the evolution...

They have no faith. They have no Loyalty. They are fearless. Money is their new God. They are the new Rich in Africa. ...

In 2012 Africa became the fastest growing continent in the world with the highest number of new millionaires. There are now more...

Censorship and Human Rights Violations: The Effects of Fake News on Democratic Governments By Kaza Christian Boneza

Although false stories have existed for quite some time, the amount of erroneous and intentionally misleading news stories has risen in recent years, largely...

A message to young Congolese….

A message to young Congolese.... There may have been days when you felt that there was not much you can do to change the situation...

The performance of mourning Moi BY ISAAC OTIDI AMUKE

Before he died, he was a disgraced former dictator. Since he died, he’s been lionised as an iconic Kenyan hero. How did this happen? A...

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