Therisingcontinent

LATEST ARTICLES ( 478 )

• Can Tony Blair and Howard B. Buffett Be Racist?

  

  Tony Blair – Former British Prime Minister – Socialist Unity pictureContrary to all expectations, in their joint recently published position, the two... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Simandou Mining Project in Guinea Conakry

  

  – Rio Tinto pictureRio Tinto, the global multinational which is involved in a range of mining projects across the world, is developing in the Simandou mining... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2013 SOCIETY

• Rwanda: RPF Crimes in DRC, an Exiled ex-DMI and Soldier Testifies

  

  Jambonews, an online news outlet, made a French transcript of a testimony given by an ex-DMI and soldier of the Rwandan Patriotic Front. Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2013 SOCIETY

• George B.N. Ayittey – ‘Defeating Dictators: Fighting Tyranny in Africa and Aroun...

  

  Review by Didas Gasana‘Dictators are impervious to reason. The only voice a dictator listens to is his own voice. Political repression is an effective weapon... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2013 SOCIETY

• Kwame Nkrumah, 24th February 1966 Coup and The International Progressive...

  

  By Explo Nani-KofiKwame Nkrumah mausoleum             On 24th February 1966, the government of Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown through a military and police coup... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• After Ernesto Che Guevara’s Visit to Ghana

  

  By Explo Nani-KofiKwame NkrumahPre-independence Africa and the period which followed the liberation of the first countries of the continent from colonialism wer... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2013 SOCIETY

• Obama Administration Official Provides Insights on U.S. Congo Policy

  

  By Kambale MusavuliDRC – UN imageAfricans should stop Obama from balkanizing DRC. First it was Libyan destruction, and then came Sudan split into two states. Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2013 SOCIETY

• A Wrong Debate: Whose Interests Are They Really? Africans Or Somebody Else!

  

  At the hype of the recent crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with M23 temporarily occupying Goma before withdrawing, the world has witnessed many... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2013 SOCIETY

• Rwanda: No Lesson Learnt from 1994

  

  Paul Kagame – BBC imageLet talk about the 94 Rwandan tragedy, not because its significance is paramount in the understanding of the country’s recent history... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2013 SOCIETY

• Saturday 2nd March 2013: Black People’s Day of Action (London)

  

  REBIRTH OF A NATIONCome help build the National Black People’s ParliamentREBIRTH OF A NATIONNATIONAL AFRICAN PEOPLE’S PARLIAMENT Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2013 SOCIETY

• Rwanda and Uganda’s Continued US Protection

  

  There is no doubt about that. The Mapping Report attests of that reality. That US and other interested parties ignore that fact does not change it. The followin... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2013 SOCIETY

• Rwanda Cannot Afford Another War of “liberation.”

  

  Picture – Genocide archive RwandaHistorically, and in many parts of the world, social and political changes have been achieved, through violent and devastating... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Maurice Carney Analyses the Militarization of Africa

  

  Maurice Carney – Executive Director and Co-founder of Friends of the CongoThe Executive Director and Co-founder of Friends of the Congo, Maurice Carney, explain... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2013 SOCIETY

• Afrikan People in UK Organise

  

  Black People Day of Action in UKTowards a National Afrikan People ParliamentSo far I have participated to two meetings. I don’t think I will miss any in the... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2013 SOCIETY

• Pan Africanism Today

  

  What 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 Black enslavement... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2013 SOCIETY

• Africa Under Siege

  

  By Kwanisai MafaDrone“If we do not prepare to fight, we will lose and I mean lose everything.” Kwanisai MafaLast night I had a talk with students at the... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2013 SOCIETY

• Time Overdue for Congolese to Be Self-reliant and Change DRC

  

  Actors playing in the same tragic act of plundering DRC resources, raping Congolese women, displacing millions of people, and making the country’s institutions... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2013 SOCIETY

• Open Letter to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni

  

  By Honoré Ngbanda NzamboCongolese protesters on November 28th, 2012 in front of the Rwandan High Commission in London – UK.The letter is a reaction to another... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2013 SOCIETY

• Troubling Developments in the Great Lakes Region

  

  By Eric Kashambuzi African Great Lakes Region“…Hutu people continue to be condemned for problems in the region. By and large, Hutu have been more victims than... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2013 SOCIETY

• Matt Forest Calls Paul Kagame a Big Liar

  

  Rwandan president Paul Kagame – Time pictureI am reproducing here a comment that Mark Forest wrote after reading and watching CNN presenter Christine... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY