(History, Conflicts and International)
How deep is the religious and political friction in the country and what does the future hold for Nigeria? Can there be a secular solution to a sectarian crisis? ...
(Editorial Desk /EuroAfrica-Magazine Editorial)
... This is the date in which the country was formally created and formed as Malaysia. In Malaysia's first federal elections held in 1955, the three party alliance of then three major political parties of ...
(Editorial Desk /EAC Special Suppliment)
... wearing out in 1970, Ojukwu handed over power to his deputy Major-General Phillip Effiong and left the country on exile and stayed away for 13 years. He was granted political asylum in Cote D'Ivoire by ...
(Positive Africa/African Asia)
... sustain a more balanced development, as well as more unity and equity; and promote more political and social stability. Under the current "Vision 2020" of Malaysia, the country plans and hopes that by ...
(Editorial Desk /Media Bias & Ignorance)
... Nile, Big, Sky, Drum, or Sun. Do not forget “The Special Lexicons” which Europeans have created to match their prejudiced political ideology, meant to differentiate Africa from the rest of humanity. ...
(Positive Africa/Historical Facts )
... by Moses Mphahlele in 1942. Popularised at concerts in Johannesburg by Reverend JL Dube's Ohlange Zulu Choir, “Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika” was later adopted as an anthem at political meetings. Prior to South ...
(Positive Africa/African Europe)
... array of legal, political and cultural questions relating to the sale and purchase of the looted bronzes? One would expect auction houses to advise potential buyers about the controversies around those ...
(News and Reports/Germany/Europe)
... CDU has held power there for the last 58 years. If Merkel loses the state, it will disadvantage CDU at the federal level, according to Hamburg University political scientist Michael Greven, reported AFP. ...
(News and Reports/News-Africa)
... come after the TV crews have left. There is an important difference between the political right to become independent from the North, and the practical implementation thereof. Looking beyond the referendum, ...
(Positive Africa/The Unreported Africa)
... multicultural, polyethnic, polyreligious, multipolitical, and megaeconomic groups are perpetually denigrated. Who reports about African top inventors, scientists, top artists and musicians? Africa's incalculable ...
(Positive Africa/The Unreported Africa)
... absence of political will. According to some participants at the conference, quotations in both markets will only increase if the governments of Cameroon and Gabon settle their decade old political differences ...
(Positive Africa/The Unreported Africa)
The creation of Ushahidi - a interpreted in Swahili as “testimony” or “witness” - was spurred by the bloody political crisis that engulfed Kenya after the general elections this year. Ushahidi is the latest ...
(Positive Africa/The Unreported Africa)
... enter a long period of political instability which would keep Ejeta from returning to his home country for nearly 25 years. Ejeta entered Purdue in 1974, earning his Ph.D. in plant breeding and genetics. ...
(Editorial Desk /Social Injustice & Discrimination)
... speeches, slogans, and political campaigns. In 1997, Catherine Megret, a politician of the National Front, became mayor of the southern French town of Vitrolles. She was quoted as calling the immigrants ...
(Editorial Desk /Social Injustice & Discrimination)
... agreed that race is but a social construct with potent social and political effects but without any basis in biological science. In summary we have no scientific evidence of a multi-human race. We have ...
(Editorial Desk /Our Userˊs Opinion)
Open Letter To Mr Zuma: By Kathy Mokgatle Dear Mr Zuma, I am writing today to let you know of my disappointment with the ANC. I am the wife of an ex political prisoner. His name is Zonga Mokgatle, he ...
(Positive Africa/African America)
... also made huge strides in Congress, and will hold an unshakeable monopoly in power in Washington after a rare generational and political realignment. After a bilious campaign, McCain was gracious in defeat, ...
(Positive Africa/African Europe)
... Kikwete has just been elected President of the African Union. I entirely understand that for urgent domestic political reasons he was forced to send his regrets and that the United Republic of Tanzania, ...
(Positive Africa/The Unreported Africa)
... way appeared favourable, growth went from 2.6% in 2003 to 4% in 2004, in spite of the crisis in Zimbabwe, and benefited from an improvement in the political situation in the Democratic Republic of the ...
(Positive Africa/Historical Facts )
... proceeded to create their own version of African history. To match this political ideology, they have even created their own prejudiced lexicons, which differentiated Africa from the rest of humanity. ...
(Editorial Desk /Social Injustice & Discrimination)
... segregation on all levels, territorial, economic, political and educational. The bills that were introduced to achieve this are known as the “hertzog” bills. They caused much misery for the black people. ...
(Positive Africa/African America)
... further launch their homeland on the path of development. Despite the media hype and perceived political undertones, charity must be allowed to begin at home as is being demonstrated. Rather than collecting ...
(Positive Africa/The Unreported Africa)
... forward. Obsession with victims and political trompeters: Instead, the media concentrates on victims or government officials, and as anyone who has worked in Africa knows, government is more often ...
(Social, Arts, History & Culture/Environment and Pollution)
... global concern puts question towards the seriousness of the motives behind the over emphasized political issues like war on terror, HIV/AIDS, poverty eradication in continental Africa and the likes. For ...
(Editorial Desk /Essays, Poems & features)
... disparity, ethnic/tribal animosities and unproductive public political debates at the expense of productivity if they expect to increase their Gross Domestic Product and feed the many hungry lots who have ...
(EAC-Nework/EACN Membership)
... development projects of the EAC and a deep concern/ understanding for the geo-political and socio-economic problems of the developing nations of the African Continent. The EAC can only tackle these tasks ...
(EAC-Nework/EACN Membership)
... development projects of the EAC and a deep concern/ understanding for the geo-political and socio-economic problems of the developing nations of the African Continent. The EAC can only tackle these tasks ...
(Positive Africa/African Europe)
... political, economic spheres of the Black Diaspora and allied Communities. By the formation of the Cybernomads, the role of the then new internet technology as an electronic information medium was not ...
(Positive Africa/African Europe)
... came to The Netherlands to fill a shortage in the labour market in the early sixties. Recently, Sub-Saharan Africans have arrived as either political or economic refugees, reflecting once more, Amsterdam's ...
(Editorial Desk /Essays, Poems & features)
By Alex Oparah -FromThe Netherlands There have seen frequent talks of economic and political marginalisation of some geopolitical groups over the others in Nigeria but one aspect that threatens our continued ...
(Positive Africa/The Unreported Africa)
... century. It transcends all boundaries and borders, and has economic, political, cultural, as well as social implications. Through globalisation, people become more able - physically, culturally and psychologically ...
(Editorial Desk /Essays, Poems & features)
... This growth is manifested in the socio-economic, political and scientific life of the nation. Far beyond this, we must note that this is also a human development. According to David A. Coker the process ...
(EAC-Nework/EACN Membership)
... development projects of the EAC and a deep concern/ understanding or the will to understand and to seeking solutions to the geo-political and socio-economic problems of the developing nations of the African ...
(EAC-Nework/EACN Membership)
... development projects of the EAC and a deep concern/ understanding or the will to understand and to seeking solutions to the geo-political and socio-economic problems of the developing nations of the African ...
(Positive Africa/Historical Facts )
... home to about eight of the world's population. The continent contains fifty-one independent countries and several other political units such as the Canary Islands, Madeira Islands, Reunion, Western Sahara, ...
(News and Reports/News-Africa)
... That is more than can be said about Babangida’s loot and the political turmoil he plunged Nigeria into since his selfish, irresponsible, June 12 annulment. On why Babangida ignored all pleas not to ...
(Editorial Desk /EuroAfrica-Magazine Editorial)
By Chris Ezeh Obama´s speech in July 2009 in Ghana has sparked off much furore in the Diaspora and Africa. A lot has been said, written, and published on this visit. It is understandable that some countries ...
(Positive Africa/Historical Facts )
Obama Talks Shallow Simplistic Rubbish, Scolds & Lectured Africans As Expected! Written by Paul I. Adujie Finally, Mr. Obama’s much publicized and much debated visit to Ghana has come and to pass ...
(Positive Africa/Historical Facts )
... Ghana. We see it in the young people who are speaking up against patronage, and participating in the political process. Across Africa, we have seen countless examples of people taking control of their ...
(Editorial Desk /Social Injustice & Discrimination)
... More directly, as we know from our personal lives, a sincere apology can transform a friendship or love relationship by reckoning with a hurtful past event or events. How this translates into the political ...
(Editorial Desk /Essays, Poems & features)
... exception of some Scandinavian Countries, development cooperation is no longer a top political priority. While it is understandable that domestic issues should dominate national politics, it is sad ...
(Editorial Desk /Our Userˊs Opinion)
... might mean the difference between an Africa ailing without direction, or an Africa becoming a political and economic giant next only to South America, Australia or even the USA in decades to come. However, ...
(Editorial Desk /Essays, Poems & features)
... – not buy-off political party-stooges – to participate in a National Summit where genuine leaders on behalf of all South Africans should decide on: how authority and responsibility to all Peoples in ...
(Editorial Desk /Essays, Poems & features)
... And Apartheid prevails in government! The so-called liberal South African political model is contrary to modern political movements all over the world, where more than twenty nation states evolved since ...
(Editorial Desk /Essays, Poems & features)
... electricity supply for future generations! And no servicing and upkeep of the present infrastructure. Why? Follow the money to the privatised sector, where political representatives and ministers own the ...
(Editorial Desk /Our Userˊs Opinion)
... benefit and profit of international business, using exploitations by political front men to achieve this and still do. Your pertinent questions strongly remind of those asked by the then Prime Minister ...
(Editorial Desk /Our Userˊs Opinion)
... where the police and the judiciary have been politicised to serve the ruling party's interests. Political freedom, including the right to organise, and fair access to the media, is almost non-existent. ...
(Editorial Desk /Essays, Poems & features)
... of political correctness in articulating our aspirations, come up with a clearly defined convention and leave no stone unturned, so that we cannot have and cannot tolerate the uncalled for ambiguities ...
(Editorial Desk /Essays, Poems & features)
... a despot, a titled his erstwhile friends such as Mengistu Mariam, Siad Barre, Kamuzu Banda among other former African leaders embraced with shame. Let him put his political cards on the table for all to ...
(Editorial Desk /EAC Special Suppliment)
... war. The present situation has to do with the support giving by the former leader and Presidential Candidate of one the Political parties in Nigeria, Chief Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, to a non violent ethnic ...
(Editorial Desk /Social Injustice & Discrimination)
... (East Germany). The press is also split along left/right political lines. Der Spiegel ran an article listing hundreds of attacks (many fatal) against ausländer (foreigners, mostly black African and Middle ...