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Ayo: The Nigerian-Gypsy who won’t budge

Ayo: The Nigerian-Gypsy who won’t budge

Anyone attempting to prove the redemptive power of music needs to look no further than the Nigerian chanteuse, Ayọ. The 30-year-old soul singer defied...
Kevin Prince Boateng: The story of a genius in the making

Kevin Prince Boateng: The story of a genius in the making

If imitation is the measure of success then I am a genius, a paraphrased quote from Oscar Wilde credits mavericks and loners whose behaviour...
How the politics of polarity affects the African continent

How the politics of polarity affects the African continent

At any given moment in the global political order power is distributed in a way and manner that favours certain states more than others....
Germany: A new African library for Berlin

Germany: A new African library for Berlin

Berlin, the German capital, has opened its first African library. Since mid-August, 2010, books, magazines, CDs, DVDs, etc, dedicated to the African continent have...
Ramadan and football: The odd couple?

Ramadan and football: The odd couple?

Ramadan, the fasting month for Muslims, begins shortly. But how are sports professionals able to cope with a holy period that is by no...
Zimbabwe: Diplomatic row begins after Mugabe’s funeral comments

Zimbabwe: Diplomatic row begins after Mugabe’s funeral comments

Zimbabwe’s Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi Tuesday summoned three Western ambassadors to his office and demanded an explanation of their walk out on President Mugabe...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s undiplomatic speech angers officials

Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s undiplomatic speech angers officials

A damaging diplomatic row was brewing in Harare Monday with western diplomats indicating that they would leave Zimbabwe after President Mugabe told them to ‘go to...
Chantal Biya says no to new Cameroon coach over sex scandal

Chantal Biya says no to new Cameroon coach over sex scandal

Usually, you lose your job then your wife. Lothar Matthaus got it all wrong as his young wife had an affair which directly led...
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Dustin Brown, the next Yannick Noah?

The 25 year old tennis player, Dustin Brown did not go unnoticed at the 2010 Wimbledon championship. His performance and show stopping stage persona...
Ghana wave African flag

Ghana wave African flag

Germany set up a last 16 showdown with England courtesy of a 1-0 win over Ghana at Soccer City, with the Black Stars also...
Africa’s cultural heritage treasure war with Europe

Africa’s cultural heritage treasure war with Europe

Looting, museumification, restitution... African cultural heritage experts are calling out ... and rebelling. Egypt, the instigator of an international protest movement has, for several...
African cultural heritage fight with the West fuelled by national identity

African cultural heritage fight with the West fuelled by national identity

The question of African cultural heritage in the West is still hanging in the balance. Should their valuable artifacts remain in European and North...
Egypt leads African countries to recover ancient treasures

Egypt leads African countries to recover ancient treasures

Egypt, under the leadership of Zahi Hawass, the Egyptian Supreme Leader, is determined to recover its ancient treasures scattered throughout the world. The case,...
Ethiopia: German biofuel company fails as employees abscond with assets

Ethiopia: German biofuel company fails as employees abscond with assets

Ethiopian Ministry of Mines and Energy has announced the failure of the German-based Flora EcoPower, the largest biofuel farm and Refinery Company in Ethiopia. An...
Abu-Jamal case generates support worldwide

Abu-Jamal case generates support worldwide

What makes people from Brazil to Berlin and beyond rally in support of a new trial for America’s most recognized death row inmate –...
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Aviation: Lufthansa, Brussels, Swiss together in the African skies

Lufthansa, Swiss and Brussels Airlines have merged forces to provide a seamless travel, otherwise known as a ‘free-from-disturbance', product towards Africa. With 200 flights...
The significance of the fall of the Berlin wall

The significance of the fall of the Berlin wall

"My understanding of the history of the Berlin Wall, the circumstances surrounding its historic breach on 9 November 1989 and its subsequent destruction by...
Brutal killing of Egyptian in Germany ‘Islamophobic’ says head of Jewish group

Brutal killing of Egyptian in Germany ‘Islamophobic’ says head of Jewish group

Germany has broken its silence. A week after the murder of an Egyptian woman, Marwa El-Sherbini, in a German court, Angela Merkel is expected...
Diplomatic war : France, Germany and Rwanda in a tangle

Diplomatic war : France, Germany and Rwanda in a tangle

Ms. Rose Kabuye who was one of the nine senior officials wanted over the shooting down of former President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane that triggered...
Unknown Kenyan athlete, Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot, smashes Frankfurt marathon record

Unknown Kenyan athlete, Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot, smashes Frankfurt marathon record

Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot, who has never made a trip outside Kenya, smashed the course record in the German Dresdener Kleinwort Frankfurt Marathon Sunday, clocking...
Chancellor Merkel encourages more German investments in Ghana

Chancellor Merkel encourages more German investments in Ghana

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has pledged her country's resolve to deepen economic relations and ensure continued development support to Ghana. "Ghana is on a promising...
Namibia and Germany : A fight for colonial skeletons

Namibia and Germany : A fight for colonial skeletons

Namibia's Prime Minister Nahas Angula said Monday that Namibia would not issue an official request to the German government to bring back colonial era...
Europeans welcome Obama

Europeans welcome Obama

If Germans could vote in US elections, then Barack Obama would probably win with ease. More than 200,000 people packed into a central Berlin park...
German company stops production of Zimbabwe banknote paper

German company stops production of Zimbabwe banknote paper

A Munich-based company Giesecke & Devrient GmbH, which has been supplying Zimbabwe’s Central Bank with papernote paper has ceased doing so with immediate effect. The...
The health of Nigerian President Yar’Adua creates uproar

The health of Nigerian President Yar’Adua creates uproar

Nigeria's main opposition Action Congress (AC) party has criticised the federal government for mismanaging the information on the health of President Umaru Yar'Adua, who...
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Economic Analysis of the Legal Regulation of Religion in the US and Germany

In this paper, I analyze the legal regulation of religion in the US and Germany from rational choice perspective and the perspective of new...
Europe intervenes in Zimbabwe election stalemate

Europe intervenes in Zimbabwe election stalemate

The European Union on Wednesday made an urgent appeal to the Zimbabwe election commission to publish without delay the official results of the 29...
AfDB funds US$ 2.7 billion projects in Central African Forestry Commission

AfDB funds US$ 2.7 billion projects in Central African Forestry Commission

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group is currently funding 80 ongoing operations to the tune of US$ 2.7 billion in all sectors of activity...
CAN 2008: Angry Nigerians slam Eagles’ performance, want Vogts sacked

CAN 2008: Angry Nigerians slam Eagles’ performance, want Vogts sacked

Shocked that a country rated the best in African football has yet to win a match in the current Nations Cup in Ghana, Nigerian...