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Expecting Europe To Help Develop Africa Is Like Asking for A Thief to Fight Thievery—-Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Prof. Ngugi wa Thiongo. Photo: Wikimedia Commons   During the last day of the annual “Congo Week” events focused on empowering Congolese and other ...

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Part Four: “I Thought I Would Die In Museveni’s Torture Chamber”—Kakwenza Rukirabashaija

The author was waterboarded by Ugandan dictator Gen. Museveni’s military intelligence services. Uganda has received as much as $1 billion in financial and military ...

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Congo: How The People’s Victory Was Hijacked

Why worry? Be happy. Former President Kabila. Photo: Facebook The Congolese people were determined to rid themselves of Joseph Kabila’s regime on 30 December ...

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Malcolm X: On Malevolent Western Role In Congo And “Any Means Necessary” in Defense of Liberty

Malcolm X shown with Oxford Union President Eric Abrahams who was a Jamaican student.  Photo: Teresa Stokes-Flickr [From The Archives] Excerpted from Malcolm X’s ...

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Congolese Rally Around Memory of Lumumba to Defy Kabila, The “New Mobutu”

Pro-democracy activism in the Congo is feeling the lash from the unpopular government of Joseph Kabila who is under pressure to hand over power ...

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Africa Must Wake Up! A Call To Action

This is Lumumba’s 90th birthday year [Pan-Africanism: Commentary] On May 21, 2015,  many of us in the United States gathered to pay homage the ...

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U.S. Gift To Kagame, Africa’s Leading Militarist: New War In Central Africa

  To deflect from internal woes unindicted war criminal Gen. Kagame needs permanent state of war in region Sowing Seeds Of Another Genocidal Conflict ...

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ANNUS HORRIBILIS: DEFEATED, WHAT WILL RWANDA’S PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME DO?

President Kagame on the ropes. How will he react? [Commentary: Africa] In November 2012, I wrote a piece with the title, “The Tragedy of ...