December 3, 2014
A relief art-work showcasing different traditional dances of South Sudan by David Morbe. © The Niles | Aping Kuluel – See more at: http://www.theniles.org/articles/?id=1517#sthash.my5xasYB.dpuf South Sudanese innocent people were caught in crossfire of political…
December 2, 2014
Kuala Lumpur: IAIS-International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies, IIUM-International Islamic University of Malaysia Yes, Islam and Christianity are on old Buddhist lands; with Muslim-Buddhist clashes in Sri Lanka, Myanmar. Occident is the…
December 2, 2014
INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT On June 13, 1980 Walter Rodney was assassinated in Guyana. Since that date there have been many calls for a commission of inquiry into the Assassination. The government in…
December 2, 2014
By Raïs Neza Boneza It takes us four hours to cruise on the peaceful waves of the Lake Kivu, an area that has known decade of unrest and armed…
December 1, 2014
Dinka Panaaru resilience remained unchallengeable despite huge ramification that left by the ongoing war in South Sudan on wide range developmental sectors for just sprout institutions after South Sudanese attain hard won…
November 28, 2014
Some African musicians have ‘risen to the occasion’ with the launch of their own Ebola campaign song intended to be an alternative to Bob Geldo’s “Do They Know Its Christmas?” which was released…
November 28, 2014
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 of the Black Power movement in the black…
November 25, 2014
by Sumeet Grover. Director, Global Poetry. The Disobedient Objects exhibition is on display at the Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, London, until 1st February 2015. It narrates at least one…
November 24, 2014
AFRICANGLOBE – For the 10th year since the forcible removal of elected Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from Haiti, the United Nations has renewed the mandate of an occupying “peacekeeping force” in the…
November 7, 2014
From the forested depths of the African Congo, among the last of the mountain gorillas comes Virunga, an incredible true story of idealistic conservationists, armed militia, and the struggle to control Congo’s…
November 6, 2014
Protest art exists across all the genres of art. In visual and audio arts, from stand-up comedy to paintings and rap music, protest art is unified by its socially conscious message and…
November 6, 2014
LUCHA is an organisation created in Goma, the capital of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in June 2012. Both its location and the time if its founding correspond…
November 4, 2014
Andikra 1817 Today, we will talk about Adinkra symbols of the Akanpeople of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. The Adinkra symbols are believed to originate in Gyaman, a former kingdom in modern day…
November 3, 2014
Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST).© Malawi Cameraman Le Président Peter Mutharika du Malawi a inauguré ce 24 octobre 2014 à Thyolo (à 400 kilomètres de Lilongwe, la capitale du…
November 2, 2014
Ketty Adong is trying to piece back her life after escaping from LRA rebels. Photos by Rachel Mabala. IN SUMMARY Ketty Adong is a former rebel commander. She escaped from the bush…
November 2, 2014
Doubting critics say the research only encourages female genital mutilation. But you don’t help women by telling them they’re ‘mutilated’, the researchers argue. Sexual pleasureWhen Professor Sara Johnsdotter started studying Somali women…
October 27, 2014
A long the road to Gulu, it is clear that life has returned to normal. This is evidenced by children playing by the roadside, women riding bicycles loaded with produce from either…
October 27, 2014
Ali A. Mazrui the great humanist joined the ancestors on Sunday, 12 October, 2014 in Binghamton, New York, where he had lived since 1989. He had been living with his family and…
October 20, 2014
“That I’m alive today proves the power of the photo and that the only viable and sustainable challenge to oppression is through art and beauty.Photography for me is not a hobby…
October 20, 2014
I’ve been intrigued by this tribe ever since I heard about them while listening to Dr. Wayne Dyer speak on their unique tradition. Take a moment to read about it below…
October 19, 2014
Ngugi I am no literature professor or literary giant per se, I write from my humble opinion as a student of the Ivory Tower where I witnessed how “word politics” (the basis…
October 16, 2014
INTRODUCTION As the Ebola outbreak rages, and there are projections of more than 1.4 million persons infected in the next few months, the African Union and the regional bloc ECOWAS have taken…
October 9, 2014
Beijing should listen to its own excellent mantra: “One Country, Two Systems”. A part of that other system is democracy. England never practiced that during 150 years of conquest and colonialism–also fearing…
September 26, 2014
The new book, ‘Capitalism: A Ghost Story,’ explores the blurred connection between corporations and the foundations they endow. What follows in this essay might appear to some to be a somewhat harsh…
September 26, 2014
There are times when farce and living caricature almost consume the cynicism and mendacity in the daily life of Australia’s rulers. Across the front pages is a photograph of a resolute Tony…