contemporary africa

Zimbabwe: What the West Doesn't Want You to Know By Navaya ole Ndaskoi September 27, 2007 I am responding to a putrid article on Zimbabwe by Dr. Richard E. Mshomba, Professor of Economics at La Salle University in Pennsylvania U.S.A., published in Arusha...

L’Union africaine rejette les tests ADN / mesures de réciprocité Paris, le 2 octobre 2007 Dans un entretien accordé à l’AFP et à RFI à Addis Abeba, le président de la Commission de l’Union Africaine (UA), Alpha Oumar Konaré, a déclaré à propos du projet...

Zim Tops Literacy Rankings The Herald (Harare) 14 September 2007 Zimbabwe has the highest overall literacy rate in Southern Africa at 90 percent followed by South Africa with 86 percent, according to the latest United Nations Educational, Scientific and...

'This Should Be a Lesson to Harmony' 4 October 2007 By Alex Eliseev and Sapa Cape Town One by one they came up from the depths, their eyes glazed, some smiling, others near tears. Their faces tell the story of one of the biggest and most successful rescue...

http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL12141189.html ANC grapples with Biko legacy as discontent simmers Wed 12 Sep 2007 Muchena Zigomo in Johannesburg Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN, Sept 12 (Reuters) - South Africa on Wednesday marked the 30th anniversary...

A renaissance takes hold in Africa By Abdoulaye Wade September 27, 2007 FOR MUCH of the last half-century, the role that African-Americans play in Africa has been more a subject of lip service and rhetorical fealty than reality. That is about to change....

Zimbabwe: The Resistance to Colonialism Monday, April 2, 2007 By K. Elford We White people hardly ever realize our offense when discounting information being presented to us from a Black point of view. There are informed alternatives to the White-owned...

Guinea Bissau 'to shoot drug planes' Mr N'Dafa Cabi said the order was "a means of threatening" drug traffickers "who profit from our fragility". While the army chief of staff, General Tagme Na Waye said anti-aircraft guns were "already installed" on...

Devenir maître ou passer d’un maître à un autre ? Anabela Lemos et Daniel Ribeiro (2007-05-10) En considérant la surexploitation des ressources forestières dans la Province de Zambezia et les effets de la construction d’un très coûteux barrage sur les...

http://www.herald.co.zw/inside.aspx?sectid=23733&cat=10 Why Western rhetoric can’t sway Sadc By Caesar Zvayi SADC once again confounded detractors by unequivocally expressing solidarity with the Government and people of Zimbabwe at the 27th summit of...