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South Africa: open letter to Superintendent Nayager By Jacques Depelchin
Ota Benga, at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, showing his sharpened teeth. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)…
Erosion of freedom: From Haiti to South Africa By Jacques Depelchin
Logo of Abahlali baseMjondolo movement (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Jacques Depelchin reflects on the ties that bind…
Hungry for a voice: The food crisis, the market, and socio-economic inequality By Jacques Depelchin
This mural in Seattle’s Chinatown echoes the slogan of the World Social Forum: ‘Another world is…
Stereotype Vs Reality in Issue-Based Literature BY STANELY MUSHAVA
Helon Habila liest, P09 (Photo credit: lutzland) Poverty is in the orbit of controversy. A point…
Zimbabwe: Religion and Culture in African Literature BY ELLIOT ZIWIRA
Native Converts to Christianity (Photo credit: SMU Central University Libraries) RELIGION, according to Emile Durkheim (1988)…
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
African Liberation Day weekend celebration #thewright#drmfrancescresswelsling #isispapers #detroit honoring#lisatate #nkengeabi #chokwelumumba and#catherineblackwell #africa #ancestors #unity #diaspora#drwelsing…
Silences in African History: Between the syndromes of discovery and abolition By Jacques Depelchin
Publishers: Mkuki Na Nyota Publishers, Dar es Salaam DISTRIBUTORS: Africa Books Collective PRICE: £20.95 or $34.95…
In solidarity with Cité Soleil in Haiti By Jacques Depelchin
Sign for a Cité Soleil women’s group, 2002. The sign translates, “Organization of Militant Women of…
The routes and possibilities of a South – South subversive globalization: Africa and Brazil By Jacques Depelchin
Igazu falls – Brazil (Photo credit: @Doug88888) Jacques Depelchin reflects on the growing economic, political and…
Erasing Congo at the stroke of a pen By Jacques Depelchin
Estimate of territory held by factions in June 2003 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This has been written…
Professor Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba: Appeal for solidarity By Jacques Depelchin
Dear Friends of Professor Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba, I urge you to read the following appeal for solidarity…
A call to reclaim history, humanity, Africa and the commons By Jacques Depelchin
The leader of the Haitian revolution, Toussaint L’Ouverture, was a former house slave. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)…
DRC: What next after corruption of truth and justice? By Jacques Depelchin
Photo taken 2001 during the visit of US Rep. Frank Wolf. Original caption states: Congolese soldier…
Is growing up without a mother better than poverty in Africa? By Julia Gronnevet
The kind of Nairobi slum Maria's mother says she doesn't want her daughter to experience. (Tony…
Chilean activist destroys student debt papers worth $500m
By Neela Debnath An activist in Chile has burnt documents representing $500 million (£300 million) worth…
What is Boko Haram and whence did it arise? By Gary K. Busch
Location of the four cities in north eastern Nigeria where the Boko Haram conflict took place.…
RESOURCES, CONFLICTS AND RECONSTRUCTION: A CONGOLESE GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE By Jacques Depelchin
The Atlantic slave trade (Photo credit: cool-art) The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is haltingly stumbling…
Born out of genocide; born to live off genocide By Jacques Depelchin
This image was selected as a picture of the week on the Malay Wikipedia for the…
From Africa to Haiti to Gaza: Fidelity to humanity By Jacques Depelchin
Confrontation – Jabalia Camp, Gaza Strip, Palestine (Photo credit: Robert Croma) First, not quite, but we…
Fear of emancipatory history in the DRC: From Kimpa Vita to Lumumba to the women of Panzi By Jeacques Depelchin
Patrice Lumumba à l’hôtel de ville de Montréal, 29 juillet 1960 en présence du maire Sarto…
Tower of silence – African leaders and the G20 By Jacques Depelchin
Hommage à Aimé Césaire sur le Skatepark de Royan (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Appeared 2009-04-06 We hear…
Let Haiti be Haiti by Jacques Depelchin
Cover of Dignity To all those who have lost loved ones, please accept our most sincere…
It is all interconnected, why pretend otherwise? By Jacques Depelchin
Nagasaki, Japan, before and after the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945. Adjusted version of File:Nagasaki…
LUO NYATITI MUSIC FROM KENYA
famous (Photo credit: the apostrophe) Nyatiti is an eight-stringed plucked lyre from Kenya. It…
German university honors Kenyan writer
Ngugi’s literary works, like "The devil crucified" and "Matigari," pointed mostly to shortcomings within the Kenyan…