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Until the election in the United States of November 4th last, hagiographers had identified 1000 saints born in Africa. First place is assigned to Augustine of Hippo in the fourth century. Bakhita,...

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Perhaps it is because of the civil war, reported to have caused the deaths of more than 3 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between 1998 and 2003, that something has changed...
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Elected Haiti's president in 1990. Its first ever democratically chosen one. By a sweeping two-thirds majority. Took office in February 1991. Deposed by an army-led coup in September with all the...

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I think capitalism tends to encourage some of the less noble aspects of our characters...

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The deadliest war since Adolf Hitler marched across Europe is starting again -- and you are almost certainly carrying a blood-soaked chunk of the slaughter in your pocket. When we glance at the...

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For years, the US never considered Africa as a priority foreign policy agenda. The only context in which Africa came up in Washington was for preferential trade as in AGOA (Africa Growth and...

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Far-reaching strategic debate is underway about how to respond to the global financial crisis, and indeed how the North's problems can be tied into a broader critique of capitalism.
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Countee Cullen, a black American poet, once asked: What is Africa to me? With the US elections just days away, and Africans holding their breath, fingers mostly crossed for Obama, I find I have to...

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Aminatou Haidar, a nonviolent activist from Western Sahara and a key leader in her nation's struggle against the 33-year-old U.S.-backed Moroccan occupation of her country, won this year's Robert...

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I had almost literally just finished reading William Gumede's acclaimed biography of South African President Thabo Mbeki, when it was announced that President Mbeki was being sacked by the...

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John Pilger describes the 'social and economic catastrophe' that replaced the African National Congress's 'unbreakable' promise' to end the poverty of the majority.
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The past week has been a wild roller-coaster ride in and out of Southern African ruling-party politics, down the troughs of world capitalism, and up the peaks of radical social activism. Glancing...
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United Nations officials charge that secret “international intelligence services” are conducting raids to kill Afghan civilians, then hiding the perpetuators behind an “impenetrable” wall of...

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News that three more prisoners have been released from Guantánamo is cause for celebration, as all three men should never have been held in the first place. In a report to follow, I’ll look at the...

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How to deal with Darfur...

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Leading Algerian players in the French league met up to form a national team for the 1958 World Cup - a team for the FLN, Algeria's liberation front. It was an amazing political-sporting event,...

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Recent violence between the poor and the poorer in South Africa was the by-product of the country's stagnation - it has achieved what it set out to do racially, but not economically or socially....

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"We are the creditors!," insist African social activists victimized by the ongoing Third World debt crisis, but now gathered to fight back.
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After a struggle that lasted for eight decades, the 4,000 workers at one of the world's largest rubber plantations will receive wage increases, an improvement in work conditions and upgraded...

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In his book 'Decolonising the Mind', Ngugi wa Thiong'o (2006) gives the false impression that decolonising one's mind is simply a matter of proudly speaking and writing in indigenous African...
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In the face of the substantial social, economic and political challenges facing this country, ANC members - and indeed the great majority of South Africans - are today being fed a diet of slogans....

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If proof were needed that Tony Blair is off the hook over Iraq, it came not during the Commons debate on the Butler report on July 21, but rather at his monthly press conference the following...

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It was a close call. Till the last minute, suspense became overbearing. Glued to our seats and teetering on the brink of fear, with abated breath we awaited the outcome of the last minute efforts...
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The crimes committed against innocent people in Darfur represent a shameful episode in the history of Sudan and its neighbours, including Chad, which has played a dubious role in sustaining the...

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At the end of last year, I finished a preliminary investigation into a suspected international mineral-smuggling ring in the war-torn North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
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The industrial and mining towns on the Eastern outskirts of Johannesburg are unlovely places. They're set on flat windswept plains amidst the dumps of sterile sand left over from old mines. In...

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Vilwar (2003) argues that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is possibly the most mineral rich place on earth. The DRC holds millions of tons of diamonds, copper, cobalt, zinc, manganese, and...
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The Bush administration has justifiably criticized the Zimbabwean regime of liberator-turned-dictator Robert Mugabe. It has joined a unanimous UN Security Council resolution condemning the campaign...

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Management at Lev Leviev Diamond Polishing Company (LLD) in Windhoek, Namibia is threatening to fire 153 diamond polishers who have been on strike since June 19th protesting abusive managers as...

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A telling remark about US imperialism's double standards was uttered by Clinton-era deputy treasury secretary Stuart Eizenstat, who a decade ago was the driver of reparations claims against...
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To his brothers-in-arms, he was simply Comrade Bob. Lord Soames, who presided over the change as London’s representative, called him a “splendid chap”. Smith, who had kept Mugabe in prison for 10...

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In 1997, Mobutu Sese Seko, who had been the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for 32 years, was toppled by Laurent Kabila, the leader of the Allied Democratic Forces for the...
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We should recognise that Zimbabwe was brutalised by colonisation. But Mugabe liberated his country only to install another tyranny...

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While the mainstream media doesn't always ignore the pressing issue of hunger in Africa, it rarely explores the root causes of this problem. Behind most news on the issue, there's an assumption...

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On May, 25, 2008, the New York Times reported that Jean-Pierre Bemba, the rebel leader of the Movement for Liberation of Congo (MLC) and the former vice president of the Democratic Republic of...
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