While sympathisers of the West are still reluctant to believe that the centre of power is no longer the West, it has to be acknowledged…
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki says Africa is losing billions each year to illicit capital outflows in development. Addressing members of the 53rd Liberian…
Whilst the international community celebrates the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 2012,Sankara Kamara reflects on the dehumanization and outright denial…
In these times of open letters I have decided to pen one to you, and I feel it is long overdue. That we can write…
Colonial domination, because it is total and tends to over-simplify, very soon manages to disrupt in spectacular fashion the cultural life of a conquered people….
The following is Dr. John H. Clarke’s response to a 1992 New York Times OP-ED by Henry Louis Gates Jr. entitled “Black Demagogues and Pseudo-Scholars”: I…
Since culture is not an entity or a phenomenon which is separate or separable from a people, the political leaders who have, in a free and…
Ms Rebeca Grynspan, UN Under-Secretary General, Ambassador Sahle-Worke Zewde, Under Secretary General of the UN and Director General of the UN Office in Nairobi and…
Ingredients for Democracy It goes without saying that all of the institutions must be rooted in and appropriate to the society to which they are…
I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees,…
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