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Africa: An Open Letter to America
On Monday, May 25, 2020, a disturbing video of a 46-year-old man (George Floyd) being murdered in broad daylight by four (4) white police officers, seized our various news feeds on every social media platform, and other online media
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Africa: Religion as Africa's Trojan Horse
It's impossible to have an honest discussion about Africa's underdevelopment and poor performance in the global stage without recognising the ignominious role played by
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Africa: Commemorative Message By His Excellency Dr. Hage G. Geingob President of the Republic of Namibia, On the Occasion of the 57th Africa Day - the Africa We Want
Fifty-seven years ago, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) was formed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with the primary aims of encouraging political and economic integration among member states, as well as eradicating colonialism and neo-colonialism from the African
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Update: Statue rage - Government opens debate on removing monuments to colonial-era icons
As global anti-racism protests sparked by the killing of American George Floyd coalesce around the toppling of white-supremacy monuments, Jamaica’s Culture Minister Olivia Grange has opened the door for discussion on removing statues of colonial-era icons from public
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PJ Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy launched
A centre designed to coordinate public policy and advocacy by fostering development relations between the Caribbean and Africa was launched at The University of the West Indies last
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Pan African Mother: Fight for Life Before and During COVID-19 | Afro
Despite this, and despite the historic inequities that have contributed to this, Pan African mothers are fighting for
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Single, childless and black
Society, especially African societies, are generally uneasy with the idea of adult men and women who, for whatever reason, never got married or have
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Nigerian nationalism
Nigerian nationalism asserts that Nigerians are a nation and promotes the cultural unity of Nigerians.[1] [2] Nigerian nationalism is a territorial nationalism, emphasizing a cultural connection of the people to the land — in particular the Niger and Benue rivers.[3] It first emerged in the 1920s
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Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 to Divide Africa
The Berlin Conference was Africas undoing in more ways than one. The colonial powers superimposed their domains on the African continent. By the time independence returned to Africa in 1950, the realm had acquired a legacy of political fragmentation that could neither be eliminated nor made to
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About Marcus Garvey and the Black Star Line
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Africa: Preserving the Independence of the African Development Bank for an Economic Transformation Across the Continent with and by its Young People
We, the youth of the African continent, as integral participants of the civil society and the economic world, working in our respective countries or from the diaspora, hereby assert our deep attachment to the independence of the African Development Bank, a major player in the growth of the
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Hollywood's Worst "Whitewashing" Controversies
While Hollywood has come a long way from the days of white actors depicting minority characters in offensive makeup – such as John Wayne as Genghis Khan in The Conqueror (1956) and Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffanys (1961), there are still several practices involving non-white
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Elba to host star-studded Africa fundraiser concert
English actor Idris Elba will host an Africa Day benefit concert with the continent’s biggest stars to raise Covid-19 funds for food and health assistance in
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Protesters Try To Seize African Artwork From Paris Museum
PARIS (AP) — Activists dislodged a 19th century African funeral pole from its perch in a Paris museum Friday and tried to walk away with it, saying they wanted to return it to Africa in a protest against colonial-era
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Black Skin, White Masks
Black Skin, White Masks (French: Peau noire, masques blancs) is a 1952 book by Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist and intellectual from Martinique. The book is written in the style of auto-theory, in which Fanon shares his own experiences in addition to presenting a historical critique of the effects of
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African Nations Push UN to Hold U.S. Accountable for Racism, Police Brutality
The United Nations Human Rights Council opened a special, unscheduled debate on Wednesday to discuss the issue of racism and police brutality in the United States in the wake of the murder of black American George
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COVID-19 in Zim: Where are we going?
Subsequently, government reserved 425 hospital beds and five ventilators for COVID-19 at one of the tertiary care hospitals in the capital, Harare, and is upgrading and refurbishing infectious diseases hospitals around the
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Africa: Racism and Self-Hate - Why Africa Is Not Innocent
Just as it was an enabler of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and colonialism, tribalism has also manifested in post-colonial Africa in the form of divisive, exclusionist, conflicting and destabilising politics of ethno-geographic identity, which has proven to be an anathema to the collective
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A Tribute To Lorraine Hansberry's 'Les Blancs'
Yet 50 years later, Hansberry’s “Les Blancs” remains a radical testament to her global vision and
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Mongo Beti
Mongo Beti , also called Eza Boto, pseudonyms of Alexandre Biyidi-Awala (born June 30, 1932, Mbalmayo, Cameroon—died October 8, 2001, Douala), Cameroonian novelist and political
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2001
Statue of Queen Victoria should also come down
In light of the Black Lives Matter protests happening across the world, and the reevaluation, revision, and removal, of statues and other monuments that celebrate and pay homage to political figures who were notorious for advocating for, advancing, and establishing colonialism and all of its
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Aba Women's Riots (November-December 1929)
The riots or the war, led by women in the provinces of Calabar and Owerri in southeastern Nigeria in November and December of 1929, became known as the Aba Womens Riots of 1929 in British colonial history, or as the Womens War in Igbo history.  Thousands of Igbo women organized a massive revolt
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1
1914
Francisco José Tenreiro - Birthday
Francisco José Tenreiro , in full Francisco José de Vasques Tenreiro (born January 20, 1921, São Tomé—died December 31, 1963, Lisbon, Portugal), African poet writing in Portuguese whose poems express the sufferings caused by colonialist exploitation of the indentured labourers of the island of
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1921
Africas Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Surge Above a Half-Million
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Africa now has more than a half-million confirmed coronavirus cases, while South Africas health minister declared Wednesday that “we have now reached the surge.” The continent-wide total is over 509,000, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after
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Africa: United States and the African Development Bank
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Antananarivo, Madagascar (1600s- )
Antananarivo (formerly known as “Analamanga” and “Tananarive”) is the capital of the Republic of Madagascar and its largest city. It is located on a high plateau overlooking the Ikopa and Besiboka Rivers.  In the southern part of the city lay Lake Anosy, an artificially
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2021 Africa Cup of Nations postponed by a year due to virus
Next year's Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon has been postponed until 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Confederation of African Football announced Tuesday in a video
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Former Vivienne Westwood Employee Risked His Job To Get Zendaya Oscars Gown After The Designer Didn't Want To Work With Black Celebs
Zendaya's 2015 Oscars Vivienne Westwood gown was talked about for days following the Awards
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(2009) Barack Obama, "A New Beginning Between the United States and the Muslim World"
On June 4, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama delivereda major speech addressing the relationship between the United States and theMuslim World at Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt.   The text of the speech appears
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Africa: Confirmation of Africa's Historical Rejection in the Wake of COVID-19
With no clinical trials conducted in Africa, researchers have emphasized that Africa's Covid-19 research should be tailored to the
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