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Coke Catastrophe Averted in Liberia
Published on 2 Feb 2008 at 9:10 pm.
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Filed under collective action, Africa, health, international relations.
2.5 metric tons of cocaine was seized yesterday by a French military vessel, off the coast of West Africa. The “Blue Atlantic” was carrying 92 barrels of cocaine, leaving officials dumbfounded as to how to dispose of the massive cargo. Officials arrested 9 Ghanaian traffickers in what was the biggest drug bust in Liberian history. […]
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Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts
Published on 5 Dec 2007 at 12:15 pm.
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Filed under news/politics, poverty, Africa.
Just thought this was an interesting story…
Over the past 20 years, the World Bank and some rich nations Malawi depends on for aid have periodically pressed this small, landlocked country to adhere to free market policies and cut back or eliminate fertilizer subsidies, even as the United States and Europe extensively subsidized their own farmers. […]
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WORLD AIDS DAY 2007
Published on 1 Dec 2007 at 11:24 am.
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Filed under diaspora, collective action, Africa, health.
World AIDS Day is observed every year on December 1st. The World Health Organization established World AIDS Day in 1988. World AIDS Day provides governments, national AIDS programs, faith organizations, community organizations, and individuals with an opportunity to raise awareness and focus attention on the global AIDS epidemic.
Why is it relevant to us? (I’m hoping […]
“Please Europeans, our children are not for sale”
Published on 22 Nov 2007 at 2:26 pm.
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Filed under news/politics, history, Africa.
In late October, Qatar-based blogger Abdurahman Warsame wrote about on the alleged kidnapping of 103 kids from villages in Chad to be sold to French families.
Pascal Fletcher of Rutgers reports, “The sight of frightened, bewildered children torn from their homes by wars or poverty is one of the most recurringly haunting faces of Africa. […]
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Puff, Puff Cash
Published on 8 Nov 2007 at 1:24 am.
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Filed under Africa, health.
Over the past two decades, health activists have made some serious strides in loosening the harmful grip that tobacco companies have had over the American public. When I was coming up in the 80s there was no legal smoking age, you could buy cigarettes from a vending machine and Joe Camel advertisements were as common […]
Africans are “less intelligent,” says Nobel Prize laureate
Published on 20 Oct 2007 at 11:39 pm.
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Filed under racism, academia, Africa.
Molecular biologist Dr. James Watson shared the 1962 Nobel prize for medicine with Francis Crick and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins for their description of the double helix structure of DNA. Is it possible that Watson’s findings also concluded that the genetic structure of Europeans is fundamentally different than that of people of African descent? A […]
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French President Sarkozy reminds us that “the African has not fully entered into history” and Mbeki writes him a congratulatory letter
Published on 16 Sep 2007 at 12:47 pm.
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Filed under racism, news/politics, diaspora, history, Africa.
I couldn’t make this stuff up if I wanted to. About a month ago, French President Sarkozy spoke at Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar where he asserted (among other equally myopic, ahistorical, neocolonial and racists arguments) that:
The problem of Africa, and allow a friend of Africa to say it, is to be found here. […]
South Africa shows US how to BEE
Published on 13 Sep 2007 at 12:36 am.
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Filed under blackonomics, affirmative action, Africa.
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UVA Newspaper Shows Cultural Insensitivity
Published on 10 Sep 2007 at 11:14 pm.
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Filed under racism, ignorance, poverty, Africa.
The Cavalier Daily, an independent newspaper on the University of Virginia’s campus, has left many students of color in uproar. The newspaper’s resident cartoonist, Grant Woolard, has made a number of offensive cartoons around both race and religion during his tenure. However, it was his most recent cartoon “Ethiopian Food Fight” that has left the […]
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South Africa, Bribes, Defective Condoms and an HIV/AIDS scare
Published on 1 Sep 2007 at 1:14 pm.
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Filed under news/politics, ridiculousness, Africa.
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When I was living in Johannesburg, South Africa I somehow ended up in a conversation with this guy at the university theater about AIDS and condoms. Eagerly, he explained that HIV/AIDS is so prevalent in South Africa not because folks do not use condoms, but because the condoms just don’t work. I […]
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