Africa Global Village

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

Press Release: Raising youth awareness around health and sanitation issues

November 27, 2013 Global Authorafrica, Health, Madagascar, Miray Razanajatovo, YMCA, Youth in Africa

Youth, keep yourself clean; it reflects the place you live”. That was the main message the peer educators have delivered recently during the awareness-raising activity they have carried out at the URBANATIC Analamahitsy where young people have been invited to participate in a cultural and sporting event. Issues around health and sanitation have been identified as one of the root... Read More

Comprehensive Gender Study in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for Psychosocial Support to Stop the Violence

November 27, 2013 Global Authorafrica, Democratic Republic of Congo, SEC, Sonke Gender Justice Network, Waes in Africa

27 November 2013, Cape Town, South Africa. Activists across the world are calling for action during the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence that started on November 25th. This year’s theme is “From Peace in the Home to Peace in the World”. Globally, the levels of gender-based violence are alarming, and they are even higher in conflict and post-conflict settings.... Read More

Thomas Sankara And The Assassination Of Africa’s Memory

October 16, 2013October 21, 2016 Global Authorafrica, Burkina Faso, Hero, Thomas Sankara, west africa

Thomas Sankara was Burkina Faso’s president from August 1983 until his assassination on October 15, 1987. Perhaps, more than any other African president in living memory, Thomas Sankara, in four years, transformed Burkina Faso from a poor country, dependent on aid, to an economically independent and socially progressive nation. Thomas Sankara began by purging the deeply entrenched bureaucratic and institutional corruption... Read More

ICC has arrest warrant for Kenyan Walter Barasa suspected of corruptly influencing witnesses

October 8, 2013October 21, 2016 Global Authorafrica, ICC, Judge Cuno Tarfusser, kenya, Walter Osapiri Barasa

ATLANTA - 7 October 2013, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (ICC) unsealed an arrest warrant against Walter Osapiri Barasa, Kenyan citizen, born in 1972. He is charged with several offences against the administration of justice including corruptly influencing or attempting to corruptly influence ICC witnesses. An under seal warrant of arrest was issued against him on 2 August 2013. Read More

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