Posted on 13 May 2008
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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Posted on 23 April 2008
Traditionally, the international community has been reluctant to treat civil strife the same way it does international armed conflict.
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Posted on 04 April 2008
Forty years ago, on the evening of April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated as he stood on the balcony of his Memphis hotel room. He was 39.
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Posted on 31 March 2008
Life has changed beyond recognition for many Americans since an assassin’s bullet killed Martin Luther King in 1968. Yet despite the rise of a black middle class and Barack Obama’s challenge for the White House, the racial divide still exists - and for an urban underclass, things have only got worse. Paul Harris reports from [...]
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Posted on 09 February 2008
Future Here and Now: China has 25% of its oil coming from Africa
There is a movement among us who are dedicated to seeing Africa free from oppression. We don’t talk too much from a point of view that isn’t both historical and forward looking. Voicing opinions, facts or inspiring rhetoric, will be in brackets: a [...]
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