THE YOUNG HANDS THAT FEED US
Apperead on 19 JUL 2019
An estimated 524,000 children work unimaginably long hours in America's grueling agricultural fields, and it's all perfectly legal.
It was the last day of March of 2018, the day before Easter,...
FATAL ATTRACTION: Idi Amin’s untold love triangle
Idi Amin weds Sarah Kyolaba in July 1975. Kyaloba married Amin after he spotted her performing at the age of 17. FILE PHOTO | NMG
In Summary
• A newly-released documentary by Uganda-based Dutch journalist and filmmaker...
FIRST PAN AFRICAN FORUM FOR CULTURE AND PEACE “BIENNIAL OF LUANDA” WAS HELD IN...
Angolan President Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenco: “The presence of Angolan youth and youth from other parts of the continent as well as the Diaspora in the Biennale will result in various innovative strategies coming...
From Libya To Rwanda, Refugees Shuttled To New Outpost In Plan Called ‘Flawed’
Libyan refugee camp
European nations are building a wall – a sea wall – to keep African migrants from reaching their shores.
With funds paid by the European Union and cooperating African governments, refugees are being...
The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation...
$17.00 – $89.00
“We’re making headway on global poverty,” trills billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates. “Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues,” reports the World Bank. And “How did the global poverty rate halve in 20 years?” inquires The Economist magazine....
International Humanitarian Law, Constant Challenges, NGO Responses by Rene Wadlow
12 August is the anniversary of the signing of the Geneva Conventions of 1949. The 1949 Geneva Conventions and the 1977 Protocols Additional are central instruments of International Humanitarian Law. The Geneva Conventions, are...
Libya: The blitzkreig breaks down: Negotiations Needed By Rene Wadlow
Dozens of people were killed in an air raid on 3 July 2019 on a detention center holding migrants in a camp at Tajoura, a suburb of Tripoli according to the U.N. Support Mission...
Documentary on political – art persecution to premiere in Kampala By Gabriel Buule
Courtesy photo of Cranes band where Gitta was a member
The tendency of politics falling into collision with the creative art industry didn’t start yesterday that even-though pundits assume that the banning of artiste Bobi...
Aime Cesaire: (1913 – 2008) A Black Orpheus by Rene Wadlow
My negritude is not a stone,
nor deafness flung out against the clamour
of the day
my negritude is not a white speck of dead water
on the dead eye of the earth
my negritude is neither tower nor...
Dogon-Peul Conflict in Mali: Danger of Broader Agriculturalist-Herder Tensions in Africa.
On Sunday evening, 9 June 2019, a Peul militia attacked a Dogon village in central Mali, killing over 100 people, wounding others, and then burning down the village. It is thought that the attack...
Forget GDP — New Zealand Is Prioritizing Gross National Well-Bein
The country’s new “well-being budget” emphasizes citizen happiness over capitalist gain.
8 Jun 2019 – We usually think of a country’s wealth or capital in terms of its financial bottom line: its gross domestic product. But...
