500 Years Later – Time For Africa to Forget… A Review!!!
INTRODUCTION It is indeed a compelling Documentary and a must-watch for as I did, I came to realise that the scramble, partition, and colonization of Africa saw the continent divided […]
“RED GOLD” – ANOTHER RESOURCE CURSE?
In most African countries, the prices of basic commodies are greatly linked to the price of fuel. This could be attributed to the cost of transportation which increases with fuel […]
PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK: AMERICA’S BIRTH-RIGHT?
The sudden pulling out of Colombia’s Jose Antonio Ocampo from the race of the next president of the World Bank, seems to be the final signal to the likelihood that […]
WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?
As I watched it on the news, I could hear whistles and shouts of “shame on you” as tents were thrown in to rubbish trucks. This happened when Occupy London […]
EUSA vs Zimbabwe, Bailout vs But Out,and Other Fun Economy
The results of US and EU bailouts manifest in Mass Protests, the first Mass Strikes in the USA for Decades, a London Suburb where We The People gave a little […]
Wider Middle-East and Global War Imminent?
Posted on January 8, 2012 on nsnbc Russian Warnings against NATO´s War Plans. When then Russian President, and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin stated at the International Security Conference in Munich, […]
THE SUPERIORITY OF AFRICAN KNOWLEDGE:
When Socrates made the statement that ‘it is better to be unborn than to be untaught for ignorance is the root of all misfortune’, little did he realise how true […]
The Truth About the Situation in Libya
By Brian Becker, National Coordinator, ANSWER Coalition Libya is a small country of just over 6 million people but it possesses the largest oil reserves in all of Africa. The […]
RISING POWERS AND DEVELOPMENT POLITICS!
To say I expected this session to be emotional will be an understatement. For ten weeks we have had this stormy journey. Raising questions and attempting to answer them – only to […]
STATE FAILURE… QUID SIT?
I trailed off last week on a bad mood. There were many things I could not understand. First I could not understand why there was so much talk about unity and peace […]
World’s Largest ‘Democracy’ In Search of Gandhi
I had always thought that there was no such thing as ‘conjunction’. I had this tendency of writing it off as a mere association of ideas by people, as a result […]
Aid, Politics and Development
When I first read Paul Collier‘s ‘The Bottom Billion: Why Poor countries are failing and what can be done about it“, I could not stop myself from clenching and unclenching my […]
GLOBALISATION: TOTTERING ON THE BRINK OF DECLINE? Any Remedy?
Abstract: As one listens to speeches, participates in national and international conferences, takes a casual browse of television channels or simply log on to the internet it becomes difficult not […]