Africa Global Village

A total of 725 African students have already signed up for the Go Green in the City global business case challenge

February 13, 2014 Global Authorafrica, Education, Energy, Investments

Energy: A total of 725 African students have already signed up for the Go Green in the City global business case challenge Students from Engineering and Business Schools, Master's and MBA Programmes in Africa have until 15 February 2014 to sign up for the challenge PARIS, France, February 10, 2014/ -- Schneider Electric (http://www.schneider-electric.com), the global specialist in energy management, is inviting African... Read More

Why it is time to rebrand Ghana’s fugu

February 5, 2014 Global Authorafrica, African Traditions, Archie Casely-Hayford, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Fugu, Ghana, Kojo Botsio, Komla Gbedemah, Krobo Edusei, N.A. Wellbeck

Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and five of his comrades in the struggle for Ghana’s independence, Komla Gbedemah, Kojo Botsio, Archie Casely-Hayford, Krobo Edusei, and N.A. Wellbeck, all appeared in splendid smocks at the Old Polo grounds on 6 March1957, to declare Ghana’s independence from British colonial rule.The picture of Dr. Nkrumah and his five comrades standing on a podium in splendid... Read More

President Salva Kiir accuses UN workers in his country of siding with rebel fighters seeking to overthrow him.

January 24, 2014 Global Authorafrica, Riek Machar, Salva Kiir, Sudan, UN

The relationship between South Sudan and the United Nations (UN) is souring during a critical time of conflict and mass death inside the world's newest country. After a month of fighting between President Salva Kiir's government and rebels loyal to former Vice President Riek Machar, the UN suddenly finds itself under verbal attack from South Sudan. Read More

Ghana to send peacekeepers to South Sudan

January 7, 2014 Global Authorafrica, Ghana, Hannah Tetteh, South Sudan

Ghana will be contributing troops for peacekeeping operations in South Sudan, Miss Hannah Tetteh, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has said.Miss Tetteh, who spoke at a public forum in Accra dubbed “Advancing the better Ghana agenda: Prospects for 2014” as part of activities marking the first anniversary of President John Dramani Mahama’s government, said Ghana was committed... Read More

Zero Dark Mali

January 7, 2014 Global Authorafrica, France, Mali, North africa

by Pepe Escobar The imperialial juggernaut is once again on a roll in North Africa, with France in the lead. Secular-run Algeria had “better get its US$50 billion in reserves out of Western banks as soon as possible.” But overwhelming arms do not guarantee victory. “The French are on their way to meet the American fate in both Iraq and... Read More

GEOSTRATEGY: A Geographic Map may hide A strategy for mental subordination

January 1, 2014 Global Authorafrica, Bruno Giordano, Jean Paul Pougala, Love Africa, Panafricanism

"To defend a continent, we must love and to love Africa, we must have the intellectual capacity to put as priority the deconstruction of mental conditioning in which virtually the whole population lies. " By Jean Paul Pougala A- BORN-RENAISSANCE OF INTELLECTUAL DISSENT:The example of Bruno Giordano (1548-1600) Bruno was a Dominican priest, professor of philosophy, mathematics, physics. He was accused... Read More

Happy Kwanzaa; The Black Christmas

December 27, 2013 Global Authorafrica, Christmas, Dr. Maulena Karenga, Kwanza, Pan-Afrikan, Swahill

Matunda ya kwanza ya mwamuko wa wana Afrika: the first fruits of the Afrikan Renaissance The holiday period is here with many cultures celebrating Christmas, Hanukah, and Genna (Ethiopian Christmas) among others. However, it is quite alarming that few in our communities are aware of a holiday that is rightfully ours: Kwanzaa. Yes, it is alarming, but not so much… Read More

Exploring why African States and African leaders struggle to be Democratic

December 25, 2013 Global Authorafrica, African Leaders, democracy

It has become one of the major political science paradoxes of Africa that a majority of nation states and/or their leaders in sub-Saharan Africa purport to be democratic or to espouse the principles and tenets of democracy yet struggle to live up to the standards of democratization. The question that crops to mind with regards to this irony might be... Read More

Profile of South Sudan’s Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon

December 23, 2013 Global Authorafrica, John Garang, Kong Chuo, South Sudan, SPDF, Sudan People's Liberation, USA

Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon (born 1953) is a South Sudanese politician who had been Vice President of South Sudan from its independence in 2011 until his dismissal in 2013. Machar obtained a PhD in mechanical engineering in 1984 and then joined the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) during the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983–2005). Riek fell out with the... Read More

Looting, killing of Christians, churches set on fire in CAR – UN

December 18, 2013 Global Authorafrica, CAR, Christians, refugees, war

People are pictured at a refugee camp set in the garden of Notre Dame de Fatima church, in Bangui, Central African Republic on December 16, 2013. Picture: FRED DUFOUR / AFP GENEVA – Some 210,000 people have been uprooted from their homes by violence in the Central African Republic capital in the past two weeks alone, the United Nations… Read More

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