Culture is conceived as the main symbol of the human condition; it might be defined as a collective subconscious, described by the beliefs, behavior, language, and entire way of life of a particular group…
READ MORE →The young priest Robert Bolenge* could not have imagined the poverty he would find when he arrived at his new post in Yaligimba in 2002. The district lies at the heart of vast oil palm…
READ MORE →Typically, Black women’s deaths don’t garner much media attention, but this week the deaths of Sandra Bland and Kindra Chapman became national news. According to law enforcement officials, both Bland, 28, and Chapman, 18, took…
READ MORE →An historic betrayal has consumed Greece. Having set aside the mandate of the Greek electorate, the Syriza government has willfully ignored last week’s landslide “No” vote and secretly agreed a raft of repressive, impoverishing measures…
READ MORE →All Peace loving people around the World, and particularly those who have worked for many years for the Abolition of All Nuclear Weapons, must have been encouraged and given hope, with the announcement on 14…
READ MORE →Swedish filmmaker taps into the primary violence of the coloniser rather than the colonised, says Bhakti Shringarpure SOURCE: the guardian Concerning Violence, the latest documentary from Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson,…
READ MORE →When tourists visit sub-Saharan Africa, they often wonder “Why there are no historical buildings or monuments?” The reason is simple. Europeans have destroyed most of them. We have only left drawings and descriptions by travelers…
READ MORE →The former Chadian dictator, Hissène Habré, will stand in the dock on charges of crimes against humanity, torture and war crimes before the Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC) in the Senegalese court system. His trial will…
READ MORE →By FRANTZ FANON Preface by JEAN-PAUL SARTRETranslated by CONSTANCE FARRINGTON GROVE WEIDENFELD NEW YORK CONCERNING VIOLENCE National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings…
READ MORE →By Tesfaye Demmellash (PhD) After noting in a recent writing the “paralyzing” grip of fear on the Ethiopian people, namely, our inability in the face of naked and insidious tribal tyranny “to react and protest”…
READ MORE →Did you know many African countries continue to pay colonial tax to France since their independence till today! When Sékou Touré of Guinea decided in 1958 to get out of french colonial empire, and opted…
READ MORE →James with his latest work. Naohiko Omata, Author provided James is a sculptor who fled Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and sought refuge in neighbouring Uganda. When it’s not raining, he likes to work…
READ MORE →Julian Assange, founder and editor of WikiLeaks, has now been a refugee in the Ecuadoream embassy in London for three years. The key issue in his extraordinary incarceration is justice. He has been charged with…
READ MORE →Today I want to introduce you to a bigot and a Nobel laureate who ultimately is a coward and self-serving politician like the best of them. I am of course talking about Aung San Suu…
READ MORE →I have written several articles that have addressed Zimbabwean Human rights and rule of Law, as well as South African Foreign Policy. By Ken Sibanda I now turn my attention to Zimbabwean legal constitutional history…
READ MORE →Ever since I first heard “Kangpe” on FIFA 10, I have been extremely interested in the eclectic sound of the music Nigerian artist Nneka creates. She is, in my opinion, one of the best…
READ MORE →— “Many in position of power think the world has become overpopulated recently, and Africa takes the center of attention because of the constant increase in population” — “European countries are nowadays giving incentives to…
READ MORE →Source : the corge I don’t mince words, I don’t hold back how I feel about things. And when I feel strongly about something I may curse, so with that FUCK AKON, the scumbag torch-bearer…
READ MORE →In this series of African’s peaceful means, we will explore through structural research on violence and peace, we shall try to comprehend the conception of conflict in Africa, its cultural roots, its development and its…
READ MORE →Toni Morrison’s most recent work of fiction, God Help the Child, begins and ends with an actual hue and cry. A light-skinned mother takes one look at her newborn daughter, and: “She was so black…
READ MORE →Nine-year-old Dolly, staying in a temporary camp, doesn’t understand xenophobia – but like hundreds of children, she bears the brunt all the same. In April, Dolly and her two siblings…
READ MORE →“I’ve never felt I was an important person. Africa has changed how I feel about myself. Everyone I met here made me feel special, important, attention-worthy. When I retire, I’d buy a house here and…
READ MORE →Even as the group has publicly celebrated its work, insider accounts detail a string of failures By Justin Elliott, ProPublica, and Laura Sullivan, NPR THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF CAMPECHE sprawls up a steep hillside in…
READ MORE →When he’s not singing or producing music, Akon is busy providing sustainable living options to people in African countries. The Senegalese-American singer’s initiative, appropriately called Akon Lighting Africa, aims to supply electricity to 600 million…
READ MORE →Development professionals will all have heard the word ‘empowerment’. While what the term empowerment means is still subject of discussion, many practitioners and academics agree with this definition: ‘the expansion in people’s ability to make strategic…
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