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What’s Really Hood in Zimbabwe?

Published on 5 Nov 2006 at 8:52 am. 13 Comments.
Filed under news/politics, diaspora, radical politics.

Please allow me to put you on, to the situation in Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, is a brutal dictator. According to the Wall Street Journal, Mugabe launched an attack on the poor people of Zimbabwe, displacing over 700,000 with bulldozers and soldiers. This was a pre-emptive strike against the citizens of Zimbabwe, […]

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If you’re so sorry, where’s my 40 acres? (not you, Ghana)

Published on 30 Sep 2006 at 5:23 am. 13 Comments.
Filed under news/politics, black culture, diaspora.

As Ghana approaches it’s jubilee-it’s 50th anniversary of Independence-peoples of African descent have been invited to return to the motherland, to “trace their history… and reconnect with the land of their ancestors.” This is all part of a tourism campaign called Project Joseph-and it comes with a sincere gesture; an apology for slavery. Emmanuel Hagan, […]

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