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The day Somaliland voters braved al Qaeda threats to engage in “the Devil’s practice”
On Saturday 26 June, across the length and breadth of the breakaway state of Somaliland the rising sun reveals long lines of people snaking...
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...
Giving Africa’s displaced people a new lease of life
It was a departure they never had time to prepare for. Seeking to escape death amidst fighting between the Senegalese army and rebels in...
Vieux Farka Toure coming out of his father’s shadow
Ahead of the World Cup opening concert, Stefan Simanowitz meets a musician about to perform the biggest set of his life
There is a saying...
Texas Education Board Makes Stupid Move
Racism continues to roil through the sinews of American society from conservative political candidates and TV news personalities openly calling for the repeal of...
Israeli assault on Gaza flotilla
As news came in of the mounting death toll from the Israeli storming a humanitarian flotilla heading for Gaza, the British actor and comedian...
Are Obama’s hands tied on Iran?
In a move that will do little for US-Brazilian relations but much for our understanding of the workings of the Obama administration, President Lula...
Living and Learning With Arthritis
May is Arthritis Awareness Month, and as I have for the past several years, I will participate in events to educate people about arthritis...
Technology: Africa’s way out
At 11 p.m. on 2 January 2008, back from Nairobi, Kenya, an exhausted Ory Okolloh — a Johannesburg-based Kenyan lawyer in her thirties —...
US Federal Judge Assists Retaliation Against Whistle-Blowers
Exactly two years after three men won a historic $10-million verdict – the largest ever for a discrimination lawsuit against the Philadelphia Police Department...
15,000 British women strip for a cause
There was a lot of cleavage on display on Saturday night as 15,000 women, most wearing decorated bra's, gathered in Hyde park for the...
Africa should step up Millennium Development Goals
Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Malawi and Mozambique, abolished school fees and brought millions of new primary students...
The imminent death of Radio in Europe
Ever heard of digital radio broadcasting? Not being able to answer to the affirmative will not come as a surprise to anyone. For years,...
The Deepwater Horizon Spill and its aftermath
A seemingly endless flow of oil from under the sea is ominously approaching the American coastlines from Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana to Pensacola, Florida --...
“The Forsaken – from the Great Depression to the Gulags: Hope and Betrayal in Stalin’s Russia”
This remarkable book unearths the untold story of thousands of American
citizens who travelled to the Soviet Union at the height of the Great
Depression only...
Indignities implicit in Arizona immigration crackdown
Common sense, Albert Einstein once observed, is the collection of prejudices. Taking a twist on Einstein’s observation, recent legislation approved in the U.S. state...
“How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone”
In the spring of 1992 around 2000 people were massacred in the picturesque town of Višegrad in eastern Bosnia Herzegovina. Many of the bodies...
A hunger for justice in Western Sahara
Anyone who saw the episode of the BBC documentary Tropic of Cancer last month in which journalist Simon Reeve travelled across Western Sahara would...
Drug War Racism Ravishes America
A minor change in court processing procedures in Philadelphia, streamlining the handling of arrests for pot possession, sparked a major controversy recently that totally...
Yes, He Finally Did!
After a year of contentious debate, misinformation, and racially tinged opposition, President Obama has delivered on his campaign promise to reform America’s healthcare system....
Obama faces his greatest test over Iran
This week President Obama released his new nuclear strategy review narrowing the circumstances in which the U.S. might launch a nuclear strike and yesterday...
FIFA and Sony to Launch First Ever Global 3D Experience of the FIFA World Cup(TM)
Following the initial joint announcement to make the world's first FIFA World Cup(TM) available in 3D, FIFA and Sony Corporation today unveiled insights into...
Return of the coup
Was the recent coup in Niger that saw the removal of Mamadou Tandja, who despite both domestic and international criticism pushed through a constitutional...
Africa: Steps in the right direction against HIV/AIDS
Africa’s battle against HIV/AIDS is not won yet. But there has been some good news recently, including a significant decline in new HIV infections...
Vogue Paris versus Italian Vogue: Messages for Black people
Rose Cordero has graced the cover of Vogue Paris. This is the first time in eight years, after the Ethiopian Liya Kedebe, that a...
Chomsky’s optimism of the will
The mood of excited anticipation in the crowd is one more usually associated with a pop concert than with a lecture by an octogenarian...
African Radio Stations take on the world
It has finally happened. A Sub-Saharan radio station is streaming live on the Internet in CD quality. Why did it take so long? The...
Religious Hypocrisy and Arrogance
In recent times, it seems like religion, including Islam, the Catholic Church, the Republican Party and the Religious Right keep getting hit by sex...
Reflections on The Black Body
Ghanaian writer Meri Nana-Ama Danquah expresses the confusion many Africans - coming from majority black countries - feel towards America’s preoccupation with race when...
Impossible shoes to fill: Zuma and South Africa’s post-Mandela leadership crisis
In 1996 Nelson Mandela, the first president of post-apartheid South Africa, paid a state visit to Britain. People lined the streets to catch a...