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AllAfrica News: West Africa Ijegun-Ikotun, the scene of Thursday's oil pipeline fire disaster that claimed many lives, has been sealed off, even as residents of the village have deserted the area for fear of their lives. AllAfrica News: West Africa Fierce disagreements over the selection of members of the House of Representatives to represent it in the Joint Constitution Amendment Committee of the National Assembly, may have led to delays in the release of the list for the exercise. |
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IPS Inter Press Service - Caribbean HAVANA, May 17 (IPS) - After years of deliberation, the University of Havana has finally decided to switch over to free software on its network of computers, virtually all of which are running the Windows operating system, produced by United States software giant Microsoft. IPS Inter Press Service - Caribbean LISBON, May 15 (IPS) - Cuba’s offer to provide cataract operations for people who have been on waiting lists for years at Portugal’s public hospitals triggered a reaction by the government and doctors, who may finally begin to provide a solution to this problem that affects thousands of elderly people. |
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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.