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In Oslo, 200 Years after the 17 May 1814 Independence Constitution And why did that happen? The Treaty of Kiel 14 January 1814 between UK-Sweden of the anti-French Sixth Coalition and Denmark-Norway allied to Napoléon…
Read articleSources: Somanystories.ug Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire is a writer and law graduate of Makerere and Central European Universities. He is a British Council Global Change-maker, a Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, a Youth Advisor to Washington, a Generation…
Read articleThe much-anticipated first face-to-face talks between South Sudan’s President Kiir and his former vice president turned rebel leader Machar culminated in a peace accord. The talks that the IGAD Chairperson and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegne…
Read articleSince the time when the Africans, forced against their will to live in Saint Domingue (Haiti), revolted to end slavery (1791-1804) without the endorsement of abolitionists, these latter, and the allies of those who lost that…
Read articleThe Royal African Society’s third Africa Writes festival comes to the British Library showcasing the best established and rising literary talent from Africa and its diaspora. 11 July Africa in Translation: Poetry in (e)motion 11 July The Caine Prize Seminar…
Read articleCAPE TOWN/SOUTH AFRICA, 4JUN08 – Pierre Nkurunziza, President of Burundi, captured during the Opening Plenary of the World Economic Forum on Africa 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa, June 4, 2008. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The political…
Read articleOta Benga, at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, showing his sharpened teeth. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Dear Mr Nayager, Forgive me for taking your time, but I felt that, given what I have heard about you…
Read articleLogo of Abahlali baseMjondolo movement (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Jacques Depelchin reflects on the ties that bind Haiti to South Africa and asks: “In a country where the lethal combination of racism and competition has left a…
Read articleThis mural in Seattle’s Chinatown echoes the slogan of the World Social Forum: ‘Another world is possible’. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In order to live, one needs to eat; and in order to live, one needs more…
Read articleHelon Habila liest, P09 (Photo credit: lutzland) Poverty is in the orbit of controversy. A point of order has been raised with respect to the direction contemporary African literature seems to be taking. The presentation of…
Read articleNative Converts to Christianity (Photo credit: SMU Central University Libraries) RELIGION, according to Emile Durkheim (1988) is "a united system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things that set apart…
Read articleAfrican Liberation Day weekend celebration #thewright#drmfrancescresswelsling #isispapers #detroit honoring#lisatate #nkengeabi #chokwelumumba and#catherineblackwell #africa #ancestors #unity #diaspora#drwelsing # — på Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History med Frances Cress Welsing.
Read articlePublishers: Mkuki Na Nyota Publishers, Dar es Salaam DISTRIBUTORS: Africa Books Collective PRICE: £20.95 or $34.95 Jacques Depelchin’s book, ‘Silences in African History’ was becoming the victim of a reviewer’s silence. What you are going to…
Read articleSign for a Cité Soleil women’s group, 2002. The sign translates, “Organization of Militant Women of Cité Soleil”. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Jacques Depelchin challenges global citizens to make links between poverty across the world both historically…
Read articleIgazu falls – Brazil (Photo credit: @Doug88888) Jacques Depelchin reflects on the growing economic, political and cultural relationship between Brazil and the Africa and urges for a solidarity from below that is cognizant of black revolutionary…
Read articleEstimate of territory held by factions in June 2003 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This has been written in response to There is no Congo, written by Jeffrey Herbst (provost of University in Ohio) and Greg Mills (director…
Read articleDear Friends of Professor Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba, I urge you to read the following appeal for solidarity for and with Professor Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba currently residing in Kinshasa (DRC). I hope that you will read it closely and…
Read articleThe leader of the Haitian revolution, Toussaint L’Ouverture, was a former house slave. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A call to foes who plug their ears hoping not to hear their conscience’s call for fidelity solidarity with Haiti…
Read articlePhoto taken 2001 during the visit of US Rep. Frank Wolf. Original caption states: Congolese soldier adjusting automatic weapon. The weapon is a PK machine gun. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) To whomever wants to listen to the…
Read articleThe kind of Nairobi slum Maria's mother says she doesn't want her daughter to experience. (Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images) OSLO, Norway — Should a four-year-old girl grow up in poverty in Kenya, or would it be better…
Read articleBy Neela Debnath An activist in Chile has burnt documents representing $500 million (£300 million) worth of student debt during a protest at Universidad del Mar. Francisco Tapia, who is also known as “Papas Fritas”, claimed…
Read articleLocation of the four cities in north eastern Nigeria where the Boko Haram conflict took place. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls by Boko Haram has outraged the world; particularly after their captors…
Read articleThe Atlantic slave trade (Photo credit: cool-art) The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is haltingly stumbling away from the eleventh war since its Independence in June 1960. The question, which is on the mind of all…
Read articleThis image was selected as a picture of the week on the Malay Wikipedia for the 44th week, 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) During August, two historical events are commemorated, both of which had a major impact…
Read articleConfrontation – Jabalia Camp, Gaza Strip, Palestine (Photo credit: Robert Croma) First, not quite, but we have to start somewhere, There were the Arawaks, the Caribs and the Amerindians Then their land became known as Hispaniola,…
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