Idi Amin weds Sarah Kyolaba in July 1975. Kyaloba married Amin after he spotted her performing at the age of 17. FILE PHOTO | NMG …
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Category: Reviews
The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation by Seth Donnelly
$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…
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Book Review: FUNDAMENTAL THEORIES OF ETHNIC CONFLICT: EXPLAINING THE ROOT CAUSES OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC HATE
Edited by: Muli Wa Kyendo Published by: Syokimau Cultural Centre, Nairobi, Kenya, www.syokimauculturalcentre.org. 2019, 156pp, ISBN 978-9966-7020-6-7 (paperback) 978-9966-7020-5-0 (e-book) Available at: https://www.amazon.com/Fundamental-Theories-Ethnic-Conflict-Explaining/dp/9966702067 Review by:…
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Africa’s Great Lakes Region and Nyiragongo’s curse
Dear Tingasiga; I am a child of the mountains, at once hopelessly enamoured by their beauty and intimidated by their silent, motionless and brooding majesty.…
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On January 1st, 1959, the Rebel army led by Fidel Castro overthrew Batista’s dictatorship.
‘The tide will turn’: Arundhati Roy’s letter to jailed Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam
On PEN International’s ‘Day of the Imprisoned Writer’, Roy says his arrest ‘is an attack not on intellectuals but on intelligence’. To, Shahidul Alam Champakali…
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Heineken in Africa; A Multinational Unleashed
The company was founded in 1873 in Amsterdam, Netherland. Such as Coca-Cola company in the USA, Heineken is the flagship of the Dutch industry. With…
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How 1960s Algeria Became a “Mecca for revolutionaries”
In the 1960s Algeria promoted itself as a “Mecca for revolutionaries.” Allegedly, it was not uncommon to run into freedom fighters such as Nelson Mandela…
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BlackKKKlansman: injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere
Spike Lee adopted the Africana tradition of story-telling in his award-winning film about a 1970s Black detective, Ron Stallworth (played by John David Washington, son…
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Handbook of Research on Examining Global Peacemaking in the Digital Age Edited by Bruce L. Cook (Chicago ORT Technical Institute, USA)
https://www.igi-global.com/book/_/179337 Description Violent behavior has become deeply integrated into modern society and it is an unavoidable aspect of human nature. Examining peacemaking…
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A Review of ‘I Am Not Your Negro’
( PG – 13, 1h 33mins, 17 Feb 2017(USA), Directed by Raoul Peck) The nominee for the best documentary feature at the 89th…
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What’s the real size of Africa? How Western states used maps to downplay size of continent By Sophie Morlin-Yron, for CNN
Story highlights The Mercator projection has been used as a template for world maps since its creation in 1569 The projection shows Africa as being…
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