Governance

There has not been a time in the history of racial identity in this country when the number of people who describe or define themselves in terms of their race or language group or tribe has been so low.

Twelve English-speaking Caribbean nations, plus Haiti and the South American country Surinam, are going to court demanding reparations from their former colonial masters for the crime of slavery.

Following years of controversial archaeological investigations in parts of the Nok valley by German scholars led by Professor Peter Breunig, an exhibition titled ‘Nok. Origin of African Sculpture’ had opened on 30th October, 2013 in Frankfurt, Germany.

Eritrea has no oil, gas or strategic minerals. It has no nuclear weapons or remnants of a settler-colonial population. Yet it is one of world’s most repressive regimes whose brutality is highlighted by fleeing refugees losing their lives in the waters off Europe’s southern coast.

Black people have been stigmatized with racist caricatures from the first moment that Africans encountered Europeans. People who worked without pay at the point of a lash or a gun were called lazy. The victims of sexual assault were themselves labeled as “over sexed” perverts and freaks.

These BRICS fall in one heavy thud

Sam Schramski

Over the past month the fierce uprising that began in Sudan in late September has largely been quelled by the Khartoum regime’s brutal security forces.

The Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo (FARDC), as the Congolese armed forces are known in French, and the Rwanda- and Uganda-backed M23 rebel movement made up of Rwandan and Ugandan demobilized soldiers, other Tutsi and Hutu insurgents and some Congolese, had not clashed since

To know the man Kwame Ture, was to know the fundamentals of his work and politics. Kwame Ture was and is the embodiment of the All African People’s Revolutionary Party. He was a member for over 30 years. The media often tried to portray him as an angry icon of the 1960s.