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Waiting (Ghana Style)
Somehow we survive
and tenderness, frustrated, does not wither.
Dennis Brutus, A Simple Lust
Somehow we survive.
The treacherous heat that relentlessly oppresses, threatening to snuff the very...
Some see Obama blotting-out Blacks
Should the first black President of the United States publicly push a “Black Agenda” specifically addressing issues historically sought by the community whose 96%...
Vanessa James and Yannick Bonheur: Black on Ice
The French skating pair, Yannick Bonheur and Vanessa James electrified spectators at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Dancing to the tune of Romeo and...
The Fate of the Watchman in Ghana
The watchman’s job may be among the hardest hit in this era of technology, but for one 32 year old father of five, going...
Battling Siki, world boxing’s unsung hero
The French comic book recounts the tragic life and career of boxer M’Barick Amadou Fall, one of boxing’s most prominent and yet shockingly unacknowledged...
Harking back to the ghosts of District Six
On the 20th anniversary of the release of Nelson Mandela Stefan Simanowitz reports on the opening of a new theatre rising from the ashes...
No school fees policy challenges: Comparing the Kenyan and Malawian models
While the elimination of school fees is critical in helping achieve the right to education for all, addressing the challenges it poses is key...
False promises of Aid to Africa
Aid to developing countries has increased by 35% since 2004, but some G2O countries have failed in their promises. According to OECD, development aid...
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 –...
Zenawi versus Zuma: ‘Ze burlesque follies’ of Africa
From Zenawi to Zuma, the follies of Africa are ably translated by the great continent’s presidents and prime ministers; those power mongers hellbent on...
Nelson Mandela’s short walk to freedom remembered
Twenty years ago today, Olive Petersen was part of a 500,000 strong crowd that gathered in front of Cape Town's City Hall to await...
The devil and Haiti
Some of my Anglo-Saxon friends have long been suspicious of the distance between the African and Satan, if any at all. Is it not...
Morocco: The sorry state of freedom
The head of Le Journal Hebdomadaire, Aboubakeur Jamai, Wednesday announced his decision to go into exile in protest against the closure of his newspaper....
Ghana: How Affordable is the STX-Ghana Affordable Housing Project?
If comments by the outgoing Minister for Water Resources, Works & Housing are anything to go by the centrepiece of government of Ghana’s affordable...
Tony Blair at the Iraq Inquiry
In a speech in May 1997 newly elected Prime Minister Tony Blair stated “ine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that...
What’s In A Name?
“Good friend please help me. I need to know why you call yourself 'Different Devill?'” is how someone who read the first installment of...
United Kingdom-Iraq: Pride and Shame
Days before Tony Blair is due to testify before the Iraq Inquiry in London, Stefan Simanowitz comments on the performance of Alistair Campbell, one...
Africa’s Woes and Jokes
“The time has come, » the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things;
Of shoes and ships—and sealing wax—
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling...
ADAGIO — a work of short fiction
It all started, as these things often do, with the second bottle of wine. Amber and Sophia were having one of their semi-regular...
Matters of life and death in Western Sahara
Just weeks after one human rights activist cheated death by hunger strike, seven others have appeared before a military tribunal facing the death penalty.
On...
Tiger Woods: An Introvert or a Sly?
For the past fourteen years, since Tiger Woods made his first major mark as a professional golfer, he has impressed millions of people as...
Terrorism and Africa: Blood in the Sand
The attempted bombing of Delta Airlines flight 253 by a Nigerian has led to media speculation on the rise of militant Islam in...
Gay Uganda and the Broken Body of Christ
There is a scene in the comedy, ‘In and Out’, in which Joan Cusack, playing a bride left at the altar by her gay...
Of child soldiers and obscene systems
Or, it can be called a timely call to end the hypocrisy over child soldiers. I know my position would draw some fire even...
The longest day: Hunger-striking human rights activist arrives home in Western Sahara
The 32-day standoff that had been playing out on the volcanic Canarian Island of Lanzarote between the Moroccan government and hunger-striking human rights activist,...
Africa: Dealing with human trafficking, forced sex and labour
Grim accounts of African and Asian women trafficked into wealthy countries and kept as virtual slaves are all-too-commonly headlined in Northern newspapers. But far...
Hunger-striking human rights activist hospitalised as British delegation arrive
The dramatic 32-day standoff that has been playing out on the tiny Canarian Island of Lanzarote between the Moroccan government and hunge-striking human rights...
Princeton’s Model Memoirs literature class whips up hue and cry from Havard
Some intellectuals argue that models may be genetically gifted for putting on designer clothes and strutting their silhouettes down the catwalk, but they are...
Hunger-striking Nobel Peace Prize activist calls on World Leaders for their support
On the day the Barack Obama picked up his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, one of the unsuccessful Peace Prize nominees, Aminatou Haidar, was...
Western Sahara: Joy turns to anger
Last night as flight VAD652 was preparing for take-off news came through that the Moroccan authorities had refused the plane permission to land. On...