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Demystifying the world of business 1(traduction français)
Titre en Francais sur notre site: Le monde des affaires demystifiés pour les peuples d'origine africaine Demystifying the world of business (session 1) écrit par Hort October 2007 Background to business This month we start our brand new series which will...
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Global and domestic politics in Darfur
http://www.herald.co.zw/inside.aspx?sectid=26520&cat=10 Darfur, AU and global politics By Reason Wafawarova One reader who claims to be from the University of Zimbabwe challenged this writer to prove "Africa’s innocence on Darfur" and to show how the...
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Manifestation à Paris
Action collective Journée Nationale de Mobilisation Manifestation à Paris le 20 octobre 2007, départ Belleville à 14h30 La loi Hortefeux est une atteinte à la dignité de tous !! En cinq ans, nous aurons eu droit à quatre lois, à de multiples décrets et...
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Mental and Military Battlegrounds
Mental and Military Battlegrounds By Ezrah Aharone I nstead of saying something typical like, “testing 1-2-3,” to check his microphone for a radio broadcast, Ronald Reagan once jokingly said, he had “Signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever...
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The President of Senegal speaks about the African Renaissance
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....
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British involvement in the trade in enslaved Africans
Britain, slavery and the trade in enslaved Africans Marika Sherwood British slaves British involvement in slavery is over 2,000 years old, but not in what is now the accepted perspective. Cicero noted in about 54 BC that the 'British' enslaved by Julius...
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Toronto's Africentric curriculum is a step in the right direction
Will a new Africentric curriculum improve academic achievement? By: Amanda Robinson Photo by: Kennon Vaughan AT BROOKVIEW MIDDLE School, black students will finally see themselves represented in the textbooksthis January.Brookview is located in the heart...
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Namibia deports Americans for recruiting for Iraq
http://africa. reuters.com/wire/news/usnL13551937.html Namibia deports two Americans for recruiting for Iraq Sat 13 Oct 2007 WINDHOEK, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Namibia has ordered two Americans to leave the country for trying to recruit Namibians to work as...
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Efforts underway in Senegal to educate in local languages
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74294 SENEGAL: New efforts underway to educate in local languages DAKAR, 14 September 2007 (IRIN) - With formal education systems crumbling in much of sub-Saharan Africa, educationalists are looking more to...
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African Burial Ground Memorial in New York
Dedication at NYC African Burial Ground By SAMANTHA GROSS, Associated Press Fri Oct 5, 2007 It was a day that had been a long time coming, and for the community leaders who gathered Friday to dedicate a memorial at the once-forgotten grave site of thousands...
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Biofuel myths
The biofuel myths By Eric Holt-Giménez July 10, 2007 The term "biofuels" suggests renewable abundance: clean, green, sustainable assurance about technology and progress. This pure image allows industry, politicians, the World Bank, the United Nations...
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Society’s stubborn refusal to discuss its No.1 problem, racism, inevitably leads to racist attacks
Zimbabwe pair victims of terrifying race attack in Scotland By Nicola Stow 11/03/2006 SHOPPERS stood by and did nothing to help as two teenage Zimbabwean girls were subjected to a terrifying racist attack in Scotland.It took a pensioner to finally intervene...
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Guinea seeking nuclear power
Guinea in nuclear energy ambition By Will Ross BBC The west African state of Guinea is the latest country in Africa to announce that it is seeking nuclear power.It follows the discovery of significant deposits of the nuclear fuel uranium earlier this...
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The state of black Economics
The State of Black Economics 09/01/07 by Matthew Lynch The state black entrepreneurship has progressed significantly in the past decade, the inner cities in which most of these businesses (supermarket chains, check cashing stores, retailers, banks, fast-food...
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Aborigines Insist on Ancestors' Repatriation
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39311 Aborigines Insist on Ancestors' Repatriation By Stephen de Tarczynski MELBOURNE, Sep 19 (IPS) - Successful negotiations with the renowned Natural History Museum (NHM) in London, for the repatriation of human remains...
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Guinea Bissau to shoot down drug planes
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...
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US militarism violates international law
US militarism violates international law By Reason Wafawarova Zimbabwe Herald THE United States of America fronts the Western alliance that never tires harping at international law whenever they team up against perceived rogue states - a term often used...
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Skin Bleaching: a suicide pill from Slavery and Colonialism
Skin Bleaching FANTA FACE/ COCA COLA BODY: A PRACTICE ARISING OUT OF PYSCHOLOGICAL SLAVERY Recently, a Yoruba Nigerian couple Yinka and Michael Oluyemi were fined £92,000 in an inner crown court for knowingly selling harmful and or banned products to...
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New film deals with slave conditions of Haitians in the Dominican Republic
Slavery in the fields : The real price of sugar By Ben Terral Wednesday, 2 January 2008 Hartley is a Spanish priest who came to the Dominican Republic in 1997 and wound up advocating for the cane cutters in his parish. The film gives him plenty of time...
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Les démocrates du Congrès s'attaquent à la liberté d'expression (English version)
English Version click here : http://www.vdare.com/roberts/080103_democrats.htm Les démocrates du Congrès s'attaquent à présent à la liberté d'expression Par Paul Craig Roberts, le 3 janvier 2008 Quel a été le plus grand fiasco de 2007 ? La [fameuse] «...
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The enemy within: Africa’s western educated children
Is Our Western Education Anti-African Culture? Hilary Odion Evbayiro People have always referred to Africa as the "dark" continent. Whatever that means, it is true that Africans, especially our leaders and some of the educated ones, are every bit culpable...
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Beware: a laptop for the poor
'$100 laptop' production begins By Jonathan Fildes Science and technology reporter, BBC News Five years after the concept was first proposed, the so-called $100 laptop is poised to go into mass production. Hardware suppliers have been given the green...
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African Diaspora In Europe Forms Network
http://www.tribune.com.ng/15092007/news/news5.html African Diaspora In Europe Forms Network 15.09.2007 Africans living in Europe have decided to organise themselves into a network in order to put theirexpertise at the disposal of African countries.``The...
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Réactions au Tchernobyl Antillais
A.R.M.A.D.A Agir pour les Réparations Maintenant pour les Africains et Descendants d'Africains assoc.armada@yahoo.fr Empoisonnement, Corruption, Pillage Noirs des Antilles et d’Afrique : Ensemble Obligeons-les à Réparer ! Pour la métropole coloniale :...
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Yar'Adua Calls for Another Berlin Conference
Yar'Adua Calls for Another Berlin Conference Vanguard (Lagos) By Ben Agande 5 November 2007 For President Umaru Yar'Adua, a Marshal Plan along the lines of the one employed by the United States of America to rebuild the nations of Europe during the devastation...