By: Dr. Megalommatis Muhammad Shamsaddin (Pictured Below)A great number of readers throughout Africa would like to know more about the reasons for the injustices done to so many nations and the disasters caused to so many peoples in the Black Continent. Whereas it would take a monumental encyclopedia to enumerate the unfair deeds and the [...]

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By John Allen
Cape Town
Victims of apartheid who are suing 23 leading multinational corporations in American courts on the grounds that the companies collaborated with the policy have been given clearance to take their case forward.
The United States Supreme Court issued an order in Washington, DC, on Monday affirming a decision by a lower [...]

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Séun Anikulapo Kuti has made sure that his late father’s (Fela Anikulapo Kuti) ‘Afro beat’ musical brilliance and his band Egypt 80, are kept alive.
Séun performs music from both his father’s repertoire and his own. He is an exact replica of his father — Fela Anikulapo Kuti (born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, October 15, [...]

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It may sound like a bad joke, but the sad truth is that Africa’s short-lived experiment with democracy faces hard times.
From Nigeria to Zimbabwe, Kenya to the Ivory Coast and Uganda to Cameroon, the writing is on the wall. The experiment with democracy has sadly taken a dangerous nosedive.
Recent political events point to a [...]

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In 1991, A prominent African leader stood up against injustice in a neighbouring land. “The cry for freedom, as well as the cry for justice, stops at no border,” he declared.
That leader was Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe. He was speaking in Harare, opening the Commonwealth meeting that would decide to begin lifting the people-to-people [...]

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