EuroAfrica-Magazine Online

By Antony Simbowo EAC Magazine East Africa
The era of genetically manipulated foods is here with us. Africa and the Third World must wake up to this realization. Within the decade, there has been an avalanche of agro biotechnology companies spreading their wings to the developing world, especially in Africa, to continue their genetic engineering ambitions unhindered by public outcry and law suits, as is the case in the developed world especially in the United States and Europe.

Each of the nooses in this room at the Apartheid Museum near Soweto represents the execution of a political prisoner. As the history of the struggle against Apartheid fades away in the minds of South African youths, it begets a question: The stories of people like Steve Biko and Albert Luthuli, who struggled for a non-racial and democratic society and suffered brutality, exile, prison and in some cases paid the ultimate price, are being replaced by western celebrity and hip-hop pop cultures, a South African marketing company reveals.

Nigeria's president has died after a long illness, an official at his office has said. Umaru Yar'Adua reportedly died around 2100 local time (2000 GMT) on Wednesday evening at the Aso Rock presidential villa in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. Ima Nioboro, a presidential spokesman, told reporters in Abuja that the 58-year-old president would be buried in his northern home state of Katsina as seven days of national mourning begins on Thursday.

Hamburg's Senator for Health, Dietrich Wersich, and the chairman of the state association of corporate health insurance companies, Puppel, honoured Chris Ezeh, founder of EuroAfricaCentral Network, and 31 other citizens of Hamburg as new certified Intercultural health mediators.

Nigeria on Thursday recalled Isa Aliyu Mohammed, the country's Ambassador to Libya for consultations over Moumah Ghadaffi's outbursts on Nigeria. "The Federal Government of Nigeria has recalled its Ambassador to the Republic of Libya for consultation," a statement reaching here from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja said.

Sandra Laing was a black baby born to white parents at the height of apartheid in South Africa. The hatred, rejection and heartache she suffered at the hands of the authorities, her teachers and her family sent shock waves across the world. On the timesonline a story was published about her life, the racial implications of being stuck in the racial middle during the apartheid in South Africa, and about the movie Skin.

On September 1st 2009 boxing legend Muhammed Ali visited his ancestral home in Ireland. See the story and the pics here. Muhammed Ali though he got his European blood due to slavery (see video), but it turned out he got it from his Irish great-grandfather Abe Grady, who settled in the United States in the 1860s and married a freed African-American slave.

In the remote Northern Cape, the largest telescope in the southern hemisphere is producing crystal-clear images from deep space, thanks to the province's unique climate and topography. A semi-desert region, the Northern Cape is far less developed than the rest of South Africa, with vast stretches of arid bushland between its cities and towns.

Professor Kelly Chibale oversees projects devoted to novel therapies for HIV, TB, malaria, cardiovascular disease and hypertension in South Africa.  In the sleek laboratories of the University of Cape Town (UCT), the future of African drug discovery is being written.