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Africa Loses A Friend; The Passing of Alexander Cockburn

August 13, 2012 Global Author

With the passing of Alexander Cockburn, journalist extraordinaire, Africa has lost a friend, a really good friend. In decades past Alex was all to often a voice in the wilderness, especially in the pre-internet western media, in helping expose the crimes committed by the USA and its western vassals in Africa. In 1992 Alex was about the only journalist with... Read More

Why SADC Tribunal Must Keep Human Rights Mandate

August 8, 2012 Global Author

JOHANNESBURG – 7 August, 2012: A critical meeting of regional civil society organisations is underway in Maputo ahead of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Heads of State and Government summit on the 17-18th of August. Organised by the SADC Council of Non-Governmental Organisations, the Southern Africa Trade Union Co-ordination Council and the Fellowship of Christian Councils in Southern Africa, the 8th Southern... Read More

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to lead the African Union

July 17, 2012 Global AuthorJACOB ZUMA, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, OAU, Paul Kagame, SouthAfrica

ADDIS ABABA--South Africa's home affairs minister was elected Sunday to lead the African Union, capping a months-long campaign that aimed to expand the government's diplomatic role on the continent but risked sowing divisions among other African countries.Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, an experienced diplomat and President Jacob Zuma's former wife, was chosen Sunday by the pan-African bloc's 54 member countries to serve a... Read More

AU Seeks Regional Response to Conflicts

July 16, 2012 Global AuthorAddis Abbaba, Africa Union, AU, Chairman Jean Ping, Ethiopia, Joyce Banda

ADDIS ABABA — An African Union summit opened in Addis Ababa Sunday with calls for the AU to play a more active role in settling regional conflicts. The AU plans to support military interventions in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and Mali. African Union Commission chairman Jean Ping opened the summit with a call for African solutions to African problems.... Read More

The ICC debate: A pan-African perspective

July 9, 2012 Global Authoratou Bensouda, Charles Taylor, ICC, ICC Targeting Africans

Once again, the spotlight is on Africa as four Kenyans – three political leaders and a journalist – have been indicted at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Once again, the question that has never been answered is, why Africa? And why the speed? In Anglo-Saxon parts of the world, some leaders are treated with kids’ gloves when they commit ‘crimes... Read More

SADC members come up with USD 42 billion-worth projects

July 8, 2012 Global Author

Luanda - The member States of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) need USD 42.3 billion to implement 54 projects in 15 years. . Read More

Language, Mobility, African Writers and Pan-Africanism

July 8, 2012 Global Author

This paper argues that pan-Africanism is best seen and articulated as a flexible, inclusive, dynamic and complex aspiration in identity making and belonging. The micro and macro level importance of pan-Africanism, makes writing it both abstract and grounded, local and global, just as the unity, solidarities and relevance it seeks and promotes. . Read More

Was the Bingu Africa Saw the Bingu Malawians Knew?

July 6, 2012 Global AuthorBingu WA Mutharika, Bowden Mbanje, Darlington Mahuku, Jakaya Kikwete, Jeffrey Sachs, Kondwani Munthali, pan-africanism, Thandiwe Dumbutshena

Several comments made about the departed president by a number of Africans from various countries, and a few non-Africans, seem to paint a picture of a man Malawians do not seem to recognise. He has been called a visionary leader, a Pan Africanist, and an anti-imperialist, among many other colourful adjectives. Is that the man Malawians knew? . Read More

Thabo Mbeki thanks ANCYL for 70th Birthday well wishes

June 20, 2012 Global AuthorEx-president, JACOB ZUMA, South Africa, Thambo Mbeki

Johannesburg - Former president Thabo Mbeki has thanked the ANC Youth League for wishing him well on his birthday. Mbeki thanked the league in a letter after it extended good wishes to him on his 70th birthday on Monday. . Read More

Kwame Nkuruma – Biography

June 15, 2012 Global Authorafrica, Ghana, Gold Coas, Kwame Nkuruma

The Rt. Hon. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972), P.C. was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1951 to 1966. Overseeing the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first President of Ghana and the first Prime Minister of Ghana. An influential 20th-century advocate of Pan-Africanism,... Read More

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