Pan-Africanism

On the final night of the Democratic National Convention, President Barack Obama cautioned the America public about the foreign policy plan Republican candidates Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan wish to implement:

On 25 May 2009 we were awakened by the shocking news of the passing of a great son of Africa, a great pan-Africanist, an intellectual, a friend, a father and husband; the Secretary General of the Global Pan-African Movement, Dr. Tajudeen Abdul Raheem. May his soul rest in peace.

“Who was Emperor Haile Selassie’s mother?” is the title of this Amharic article.

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Activism and writing were the twin poles that drew Rosa Guy, who has died aged 89. She is best remembered as an author - particularly of young adult fiction - who never shirked confrontation with tough social realities.

Africa’s development plans are ambitious, but the continent and individual countries lack the money to finance them. Research by the World Bank for example shows that the funding gap to meet for Africa’s infrastructure needs only is around US$93 billion per year alone.

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Three years ago today, on African Liberation Day, 25 May 2009, we of the continent were robbed of one of our finest liberation fighters. And that was the irony of the death of Dr Tajudeen Abdul –Raheem (affectionately called Taju), an African liberator.