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• The Global Elite Favorite Strongman: Was Adolf Hitler A Strongman?

  

  Kagame personality in the commission of genocides in the Great Lakes region inspires artists. This is one of the results of his inspiration. At least once he... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Thabo Mbeki Advocates the Zimbabwean Indigenization Model for Africa

  

  Across Africa, wherever you go these days in the majority of countries on the continent, there are signs of “development,” meaning skyscrapers in the capital... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2013 SOCIETY

• The Worth of 1,000 African Elections’ Observers in Washington, London and...

  

  Excerpt from the lecture of Thabo Mbeki, former South African president, at UNSA delivered on 23 August 2013The full document is an objective critic about how... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Africa Emerges – but from What into What?

  

  White man in AfricaThis is the title of a very interesting review done by Keith Somerville for the book – Africa Emerges written by Robert Rotberg. Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2013 SOCIETY

• The African Union: a Veritable Progeny of pan-Africanism

  

  By K. DialloWhat is Pan-Africanism? It has been a movement against imperialism in all its forms and for the liberation of Black Africans from the evils of... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2013 SOCIETY

• A 50 Year African Development Plan: Want to Contribute?

  

  By Nii-TeikoAfrica rail and waterwaysAs usual the ever brilliant, Rising Continent blog gives up the goods with this post born out of a Facebook group I’m a par... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Mandatory United Nations Security Council Arms Embargo on Rwanda is of...

  

  By Charles KambandaBa Ki-Moon and John KerryA general and complete UNSC arms embargo on all deliveries of weapons and military equipment to Rwanda is the ideal... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Most Revolutions Are Not Planned; the Ones Which Are Are Usually Evolutions.

  

  53 years after, the struggle continues. We are going to fight for the heart of Africa until death.Until Tuesday 3rd September 2013 I ignored how revolutions... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2013 SOCIETY

• 1,098 Supporters Have Already Signed the Petition

  

  “It should be important for everybody.” Sylvia Preissig-Thurn [Austria]The signatories want to see the Congolese genocide recognized, but also all other... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 SOCIETY

• How Shall Rwandans Get Rid of Dictatorships for Good?

  

  By David HimbaraDavid HimbaraI do agree with the author of this note on the role that a strong civil society in Rwanda could achieve in changing and shaping... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2013 SOCIETY

• Dying in the Great Lakes: More Than by Sexual Violence

  

  Nobody rational can reduce the death of more than 6 millions of victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo to only sexual violence. It would be criminally... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2013 SOCIETY

• Focusing on Lies as a Political Strategy is Ending Kagame’s Regime

  

  Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete“There is surely nothing quite useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all. Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2013 SOCIETY

• Dying in the Great Lakes: Remembering the Millions That Have Been Killed in the...

  

  It is overdue to wake up to the reality of the Congolese genocide, whatever else the beneficiaries call it.Iain Stewart wrote the note with the above title... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 SOCIETY

• Dying in the Great Lakes – A Living Portrait

  

  The event will take place in London on Saturday 14th 2013.What is it?It is a public spectacle against the indifference of the West to the suffering of Africans. Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2013 SOCIETY

• KILOMBO 2013 Conference on Africa, Africans and Social Justice

  

  An African woman farmer suffering all the weight of her harvest.It is taking place from Friday 27/09/2013 to Sunday 29/09/2013 in Peki, Ghana. Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 SOCIETY

• The 2013 Summer Forced Return of Rwandans from Tanzania

  

  Congolese women protesting against Rwandan support to M23The number of returnees does not seem very significant so far – by Sunday 11/08/13, Kigali was talking... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 SOCIETY

• A Worthy Small Judiciary Victory Against the Rwandan Patriotic Front to Celebrate

  

  When the Rwandan president Paul Kagame talks of Rwandans, he does not refer to Hutus that he can with impunity treat this way, less like even animals. Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2013 SOCIETY

• The Rwandan Patriotic Front’s Mask is Finally Down

  

  By Jean-Baptiste Mberabahizi Kigali, Kigali Central Prison, October 20, 2005Some of the victims of hatred planted by Tutsi extremists in the Rwandan society... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2013 SOCIETY

• Is the International Community Prepared for the Next Genocide in Rwanda?

  

  Gerard Gahima, former Rwandan general prosecutorThis is a question that was in recent months asked not by anybody but Gerard Gahima, former general prosecutor,... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2013 SOCIETY

• Lets Speed up the Recognition of Genocides Committed in the Democratic Republic...

  

  Kagame personality in the commission of genocides in the Great Lakes region inspires artists.The UN Mapping Report published on October 1st, 2010 hints on... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2013 SOCIETY