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Features
Barack Obama, tell the truth about Ethiopia!
Alemayehu G. Mariam (2015-08-04)
cc WT Last week, President Obama declared that Ethiopia has a “democratically elected government”. That is the country where in May elections, the ruling party won all the 547 seats in parliament, thrashing all the 78 other parties. If there ever has been an election won by one party by 100 percent that is democratic, then there is indeed the famous purple cow that nobody has ever seen or the pink elephant that people like Obama see often.
Obama’s speeches: Talking at a continent
Motsoko Pheko (2015-08-05)
cc AP There is nothing that President Obama told Africans that they did not already know. Crucially, America is a major pillar of world capitalism that is entirely responsible for Africa’s numerous problems. But while Obama sermonised the continent, he conveniently forgot to call to question the predatory global power system.
Obama’s Africa hypocrisy
Margaret Kimberley (2015-08-04)
cc ABC No American president has the moral authority to lecture Africans about human rights, when America is itself so rife with egregious violations of the rights of Black people and when America supports criminal regimes around the world.
Africa rising: China, Obama and Pope Francis
Odomaro Mubangizi (2015-08-06)
cc PZ China's huge infrastructural investments in Africa, the frenzied welcome for Obama to East Africa and the planned visit by Pope Francis to Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic in November are further evidence of Africa rising.
Gen. Karake's arrest: Another crack in the Kagame regime
Claude Gatebuke and Kambale Musavuli (2015-08-06)
cc Wiki The tide is beginning to turn toward justice. Despite receiving enormous political, diplomatic and economic support from Western governments, Kagame and his Rwandan Patriotic Front-led government have been subjected to increasing scrutiny and pressure for past and current crimes committed on the African continent.
Xenophobia and fear drive the West’s debate on refugees
Yohannes Woldemariam (2015-08-06)
cc Ind As of 2014, 86% of the world’s refugees were hosted in developing countries. Despite the existence of clear international refugee law, and plenty of humanitarian posturing, there is in fact growing hostility to refugees in Western countries. The affluent nations owe refugees more than a moral responsibility.
An open letter to NBA players who toured Occupied Palestine
Ahjamu Umi (2015-08-05)
cc Ind Can you imagine a bunch of white players going to South Africa in the 1980s and partying it up, sending out tweets about how wonderful it is, and basically sending the message that the oppression of Black people in Azania doesn't matter? That it's not important? That's the message the players sent out by participating in the sham trip with zionists.
Glebelands: The war in our backyard
Vanessa Burger (2015-08-06)
cc IOL More than 30 poor South African hostel dwellers have been murdered by thugs in recent months, in collusion with the police or without police doing anything to stop the killings and bring the perpetrators to justice. This is one of the clearest indications of the failed South African state.
Ministry to gays: A question of ethics
Harry Rix (2015-08-03)
cc PF Does the Bible actually condemn homosexuality, as widely believed? How should Christians treat their gay brothers and sisters? What should be the correct teaching about this controversial issue? In this three-part article, a church minister who has considered this matter extensively attempts to answer these and related questions.
Re-imagining Zimbabwe, seated under the shade of a toxic tree
Lennon Chido Mhishi (2015-08-06)
cc WD 35 years after the union jack came down at Rufaro Stadium, a generation of young Zimbabweans are asking questions about, and forging their own, narratives and are re-imagining Zimbabwe. Who re-imagines Zimbabwe, for whom and for what, are going to be important questions as the country struggles to emerge from crisis.
Have Germans finally acknowledged the Namibian genocide?
Kwame Opoku (2015-08-06)
cc Pz Recent statements from politicians and government officials give the impression that Germany is preparing to abandon the long-standing practice of denying responsibility for the genocide of 1904-1908 and is now prepared to characterize those wars of extermination as genocide. But has the German government adopted fully a new position?
The jury is out for African business schools
Paresh Soni, Nadeem Cassim, Guillermina Ritacco and Xolelwa Linganiso (2015-08-06)
cc HR As the world order is shifting towards multipolarity and the global economy is changing, Business School education needs a new mindset. The old elitism not only contributed to the global financial crisis but is overall Eurocentric and outdated as it ignores reailies and approaches of emerging nations.