Governance

INTRODUCTION

The Jim Crow laws were the laws of our land beginning in the late 1870s and ending in 1964. They institutionalized racial discrimination with a ‘separate but equal’ legal doctrine in the Southern States. In the relatively more liberal North, segregation was de facto.

Canada is the largest trading partner with the United States. The country over the last few years under both Liberal and Conservative governments has engaged in military adventures with the Pentagon.

Those working in the human rights sector often take it for granted that human rights are universal, and that everyone surely appreciates that they apply to ALL human beings.

It will be recalled that about two weeks ago, workers, arising from their congresses, resolved to embark on a four-day warning strike to drive home their demand for implementation of the nationally legislated N18, 000 minimum wage, which the Aregbesola government has stubbornly refused to impleme

Since Friday (March 22), AFP (Agence France-Presse) and RFI (Radio France International) have been preparing us for the capture of Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, by the rebels gathered together in the Seleka coalition.

In his speech at the memorial service for the soldiers who were killed in the Central African Republic Jacob Zuma presented us, and not for the first time, with the idea that we should receive another accumulation of bodies – of black bodies – as a tragedy, as a cruel consequence of the random mo

France, as a country exhausted by German colonial rule during the 1938-1945 war, still dreamed of a world in which there was ‘permanent exclusion of self-government of the African territories’ she exploited as occupied lands. The 1944 Declaration made from Brazzaville in Congo said so.

Canadians are used to thinking of themselves as good global citizens. It may come as a shock then, to hear the UN applying the term ‘self-righteous’ to our new approach to international relations.

Is the coup d’état which ushered President Francois Bozizé of Central African Republic’s overthrow yet another Libya or Ivory Coast? All signs point to a ‘Yes’ answer to this question.

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF?