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  • 29 May 1966

    Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe | Governance
    04.06.2015

    This is a day of meditation and remembrance in every Igbo household anywhere in the world for the 3.1 million murdered; for gratitude and thanksgiving for those who survived, and the collective Igbo rededication to achieve sovereignty.

    Tagged under Governance

  • The AU’s dependency on donors is a big shame

    Oyoo Sungu | Governance
    04.06.2015

    The African Union is still heavily dependent on foreigners for funding. Yet this is the organization that should be working tirelessly for the complete liberation of African people from the clutches of imperialism. How can this AU push its agenda in the global arena?

    Tagged under Governance

  • DNA test denied at World Bank to prove Black people are human!

    E. Faye Williams, Esq. | Governance
    03.06.2015

    The aggrieved African wanted World Bank Tribunal judges to understand that Black people are human and suffer the same emotional and psychological damages that people of other races suffer when subjected to sustained psychological abuse.

    Tagged under Governance

  • A letter of congratulations on presidential inauguration

    Contributor | Governance
    02.06.2015

    Expectations on President Muhammadu Buhari are many and very high. But he must straightaway tackle the problems of endemic corruption, insecurity and the power crisis.

    Tagged under Governance

  • Likely illegal migrant? Top Ghanaian surgeon protests visa denial by Spain

    Agbeko Ocloo | Resources
    02.06.2015

    A consultant orthopedic surgeon at the KorleBu Teaching Hospital, Ghana, Dr. Agbeko Ocloo, has written to the Spanish Ambassador protesting the refusal of a visa to him without proper justification.

    Tagged under Resources Ghana

  • International Museum Day: The advancement of learning and culture

    Rene Wadlow | Arts & Book Reviews
    21.05.2015

    Museums allow objects to speak, to bear witness to past experiences and future possibilities and thus to reflect on how things are and how things might otherwise be.

    Tagged under Arts & Book Reviews

  • Presidents in designer suits, citizens in rags

    Namakula E Mayanja | Governance
    21.05.2015

    The twin forces of poor leadership and collective war trauma seem to be pushing the Great Lakes Region into endless conflict, creating a self-perpetuating circle of power-chasing and abuse. Namakula E. Mayanja considers why this is the case, and what the region needs to break this vicious cycle.

    Tagged under Governance

  • Cuba, a shining example of innovative research

    Peter Anyang' Nyong'o | Resources
    21.05.2015

    Despite a crippling US blockade lasting more than five decades, the Cuban revolution has stayed intact. Cubans have curiously excelled in technological development and innovation where much more advanced countries have achieved dismal results.

    Tagged under Resources

  • Western imperialism and the recolonization of Africa

    Abayomi Azikiwe | Governance
    14.05.2015

    The increased expansion of Empire in Africa now requires a re-examination of the theories of Pan-Africanism and Socialism as advanced by Kwame Nkrumah and other anti-imperialist leaders of the 1950s-1980s. Africa cries out for unity now more than any other period of the post-independence era.

    Tagged under Governance

  • Violation of economic, social and cultural rights in Ethiopia

    Contributor | Governance
    14.05.2015

    If the economic and human rights situation in Ethiopia is really as rosy as it is painted by the EPRDF government, how come hundreds of thousands of its youthful population are risking their lives to flee the country and die in the deserts of the Sahara, Sinai and Arabia, beheaded by fundamentalist lunatics in Libya and killed in South Africa?

    Tagged under Governance Ethiopia

  • No land, no freedom

    Munyonzwe Hamalengwa | Land & Environment
    14.05.2015

    Land ownership and its reclaim are the next phases of Africa's struggle for total freedom. Do not now begin to sell off Africa to foreign landownership. No other continent does.

    Tagged under Land & Environment

  • French hypocrisy on whose lives matter

    Dominique Doyle | Food, Health & Wellbeing
    14.05.2015

    A thousand protesters will march on the French Consulate in Johannesburg on May 15 against France's plan to build a toxic coal-fired power station in South Africa. African lives, it seems, are only worthy of sacrifice to coal boilers.

    Tagged under Food, Health & Wellbeing

  • Other economies are possible!": Building a solidarity economy

    Ethan Miller | Advocacy & Solidarity
    14.05.2015

    In the search for alternatives to capitalism, existing democratic economic projects are frequently painted as noble but marginal practices, doomed to be crushed or co-opted by the forces of the market. But is this inevitable?

    Tagged under Advocacy & Solidarity

  • Dump ‘Carding’ into the cesspool of history by refusing to talk to the cops

    Ajamu Nangwaya | Land & Environment
    13.05.2015

    Carding is . It must end through the mass refusal of the people of Toronto, especially Afrikan Canadians, other racialized peoples and the white working-class, to share their personal information with the cops.

    Tagged under Land & Environment

  • Xenophobia at odds with SA ’rhetoric of inclusivity and human rights’

    Francis B Nyamnjoh | Violence & Peace
    07.05.2015

    If belonging is articulated in rigid exclusionary terms, where everyone however mobile, is considered to belong to a particular homeland somewhere else, a place they cannot outgrow and which they must belong to regardless of where they were born or where they live and work, then South Africa can only belong to one group of people, those who were there before everyone else: the San.

    Tagged under Violence & Peace

  • Africa’s social movements present opportunities, not threats, for rights groups

    Lucia Nader and Akwasi Aidoo | Advocacy & Solidarity
    07.05.2015

    To maintain their relevance, African rights groups will have to become more innovative and nimble. They must keep their ears to the ground, forging new and more creative partnerships with the activists of new social movements.

    Tagged under Advocacy & Solidarity

  • Humanitarian crisis in Cameroon for displaced women and children

    Gwain Colbert | Gender & Social Justice
    07.05.2015

    Thousands of persons displaced by Boko Haram attacks in northern Cameroon are in dire need of humanitarian assistance. But they have virtually been forgotten by the Paul Biya government whose attention is focused - rather disproportionately - on refugees.

    Tagged under Gender & Social Justice Cameroon

  • The African drugs trade

    Gemma Thomas | Governance
    07.05.2015

    Economic growth in West Africa is badly threatened by the cocaine trade. The power of cocaine cartels is enormous, and the scope of their business to pervert and corrupt society at every level is making itself felt.

    Tagged under Governance

  • Zwelithini's lice comment only deflects attention for parasitic royal households

    Alexander O'Riordan | Governance
    07.05.2015

    The real parasites in South Africa are institutions such as the moribund royal households that are maintained in luxury by taxpayers without delivering any meaningful public good.

    Tagged under Governance

  • Glebelands: Dereliction and denials

    Vanessa Burger | Artificial Intelligence & Technologies
    07.05.2015

    The police and public watchdog institutions are increasingly unwilling to hold government accountable and to protect the constitutional rights of citizens.

    Tagged under Artificial Intelligence & Technologies

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