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A New Hope, Victoire Ingabire

March 14, 2012 Global AuthorFDU-INKINGI, Genocidaire, Kagame, RPF, Rwanda, Supreme Court, Trial, victoire ingabire

Rwandan opposition politician, Victoire Ingabire, wins a partial victory in the first round in her fight against the country’s laws governing genocide ideology. High Court judges in Rwanda have partially suspended the trial of opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza until the country’s Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the genocide ideology laws she is challenging–laws that allow for the… Read More

Philosophical look at Africa and why it is the least developed Continent

February 8, 2012 Global Authorafrica, Kaunda, Sata of Zambia, World Bank, Zambia

They call the Third World the lazy man’s purview; the sluggishly slothful and languorous prefecture. In this realm people are sleepy, dreamy, torpid, lethargic, and therefore indigent—totally penniless, needy, destitute, poverty-stricken, disfavored, and impoverished. In this demesne, as they call it, there are hardly any discoveries, inventions, and innovations. Africa is the trailblazer. Some still call it “the dark continent”... Read More

is africa intellectually Blind?

February 5, 2012 Global Authorafrica, Zambia

According to the article posted on the Zambia-economist George Chisanga apparently thinks so: The intellectuals in this country have gone to sleep. Some of the problems that we are facing now would have been avoided had our intellectuals stepped up to help the country. There is need for people who have been educated using taxpayers money to step up... Read More

Walmart Taps First 1st Black Woman As Sam’s Club CEO!

January 24, 2012 Global AuthorAfrican American, Rosalind Brewer

According to business news reports Rosalind Brewer has been named CEO of Sams Club. Brewer, 49, is replacing Brian Cornell, 52, who is leaving the company so he can return to the Northeast for family reasons.Prior to joining Wal-Mart, Brewer held a number of executive positions at Kimberly-Clark Corp. . Read More

Mbeki’s message: To every action there is a reaction

January 22, 2012 Global Author

Winston Churchill once said: “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” So, with keen interest, I listened to the message that President Thabo Mbeki came to deliver to us hoping that many of us would be listening in and that through listening we would learn something... Read More

African Immigrants are the Most Educated

December 18, 2011 Global Author

Do African immigrants make the smartest Americans? The question may sound outlandish, but if you were judging by statistics alone, you could find plenty of evidence to back it up. In a side-by-side comparison of 2000 census data by sociologists including John R. Logan at the Mumford Center, State University of New York at Albany, black immigrants from Africa averaged... Read More

UNCHR to investigate Gaddafi death

October 22, 2011 Global Author

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) office called on Friday for a full investigation into the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and voiced concerns that he may have been executed. Separate cellphone images showed a wounded and bloodied Gaddafi first alive and then later dead amidst a jostling crowd of anti-Gaddafi fighters after his capture in his hometown... Read More

Gaddafi: Death of an era, dawn of an era

October 21, 2011 Global Authordeath, Gaddafi, Libya, NATO, NTC, war

First accounts are almost never correct, but if the circumstances of Libyan Col. Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi's death prove to be as reported, they will provide yet another, final irony in a life replete with them. The man whose success relied upon a combination of great-power manipulation and the ability to sustain the fantasy that he embodied the aspirations of... Read More

Dr. Vivek Solanki wins Hospital back as AMI is ordered to vacate

October 13, 2011 Global Author

Court in Harare ruled that African Medical Investments (AMI Plc) acted improperly and have been ordered to vacate the premises from which they had fraudulently and violently taken from Dr Solanki. Solanki was despoiled of his Trauma Centre Hospital which he had been operating for the past 16 years in July of 2010. Solanki brought an action of Expoliation to... Read More

NATO’s War in Libya: Protecting to Kill, Killing to Protect

October 9, 2011 Global AuthorAyça Çubukçu, Libya, NATO

In war, truth is the first casualty. Words of wisdom, gifted to us by Aeschylus. Truer than ever now, two thousand years later, as NATO bombs Libya in the name of `protecting’ its civilians. But isn’t there a paradox here, asks young Turkish academic Ayça Çubukçu. `When “the international community” intervenes militarily in Libya under a cosmopolitan obligation to protect... Read More

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