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AllAfrica News: West Africa Militants in the Niger Delta say they would only participate in the proposed Niger Delta summit if the Federal Government promises to implement its outcome. AllAfrica News: West Africa Twenty years ago Benin was among the countries in West Africa most affected by endemic river blindness. Today the disease, which causes blindness and chronic skin irritation and is blamed for stunting economic growth of the populations it affects, has been almost completely eradicated. |
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IPS Inter Press Service - Caribbean KINGSTON, May 9 (IPS) - Under pressure from gay rights groups and a sponsorship boycott of live dancehall shows by local beer giant Red Stripe, some Jamaican dancehall stars are offering free performances to events at which no Red Stripe products are sold or consumed. IPS Inter Press Service - Caribbean MANAGUA, May 8 (IPS) - The presidential summit on "Food for Life", held in Nicaragua, has ended with 16 Latin American countries agreeing to produce more food and sell it at low prices through strategic alliances, amid criticisms of free markets and capitalism. |
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Who's Black?Brazil’s Amazing Skin-Shedding Trickby Zarina Geloo Being white means not being black right? Not in Brazil. Here you can be white if you are rich, like soccer icon Pele. You can be black if you are white and poor. To be more precise, you can also call yourself a“little bit black or a little bit white“, depending on how deep your skin is hued. The situation has anthropologists frustrated. How can racism in its most virulent form be dealt with if it is hidden behind the semantics of colour, asks anthropologist Valeria Aydos from Sao Paulo. Full Story |
African-Caribbean Resistance Culture: Past and ContemporaryDedicated to our young students of History and my former classmate B.J. May we always remember how truly a proud, courageous, and intelligent people our African ancestors were, and that we must claim their spirit. All that is left, is for us to use it to fully emancipate our minds! The expression Caribbean culture conjures up in the minds of the ill-informed, images of carnival, rum and coconut water, happy-go-lucky smiling people, rastafarians, reggae, calypso, marijuana, and so on. These stereotypical images are due in part to the Caribbean governments’ proliferation of avid tourism campaigns often void of any African references, the unwillingness of the Europeans to learn about and respect the cultural make-up of other peoples, and the acceptance and perpetuation of these stereotypes by Caribbean citizens themselves. Sad to say, so many of us often engage ourselves, quite aggressively, in petty nationalistic debate over who has the best albeit commercialized carnival, best food, best beaches... Further, the adherence to the above stereotypes serves another agenda, whether intentional or not, it helps to conceal the multiplicity of interacting cultures in the Caribbean, and the inherent conflicts in these cultures competing for scarce resources. Read more |
David Fick Helps Re-Brand African Business
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The Afro Latin@ ProjectA Celebration of Culture, Education, and Social JusticeThe Afro Latin@ Project aims to document, promote, coordinate and support the development of Afro-Latin@ studies and grass roots activities in the United States. This primary focus is informed and enriched by the historical and contemporary experience of African-descendant peoples in the Americas. The Hip-Hop Association, in conjunction with the Social Services of Hip Hop, We Got Issues!, Afro-Latin@ Project, and the New York State Youth Leadership Council present HHEAL (Hip-Hop Educates and Advances Lives!)Fest, a three-day celebration during NY’s Immigrant Heritage Week. HHEAL Fest will include interactive workshops, panels, film screenings, and performances that will focus on Hip-Hop as a tool for education, immigrant history, media literacy, and life skills and youth empowerment. Taking place from April 18-20 at the Raphael Hernandez School of the Performing Arts (IS 217) in the Bronx, HHEAL Fest combines the Freshest Youth Program, Hip-Hop Education (H2Ed) Summit, and a third day dedicated to a town hall meeting and a special tribute dedicated to the Founder of Hip-Hop - Kool Herc and the First Lady of Hip-Hop - Cindy Campbell in homage of their Jamaican roots. For more information, visit their website. |
African success in UK highlighted
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Embracing African AncestryReprinted Essay by Malcolm X
What impact does what happens to them have upon us? Number one; first you have to realize that up until 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected the image of Africa negatively. They projected Africa always in a negative light; jungles, savages, cannibals--nothing civilized. Full Story |
International Women's Day - How you can Help Women Around the Globe
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Entrepreneurship in Africa is a study of those entrepreneurs who have achieved success, wealth, and fame by organizing and directing a business undertaking in Africa. It is a story about successful entrepreneurs who have assumed risk in pursuit of profit, who have tried to conform to ethical business standards and who have tried to contribute to the economic development and improve the natural environment and the education, health, and welfare of their community and nation. The philosophies underpinning their economic success and their endeavors to improve their communities have been included whenever correspondence with the entrepreneurs related them. 
African-born immigrants in Britain are doing better economically than many other migrants, a major new survey shows.
Why should the Black man in America concern himself, since we’ve been away from the African continent for 400 years, for 300 – 400 years, why should we concern ourselves?
Women worldwide will celebrate their collective power Saturday by observing International Women’s Day. That day has a special meaning for one woman from the Democratic Republic of Congo whose life changed when she sent a letter to a stranger.