As I live and breathe, knowing that much more work needs to be done. I am humbled by I sihstrehnh and brehdrehnh works, and I strive to do more. Never get weary yet . . .

Top scholar Gates arrested in Mass., claims racism

Jul 20, 2009 2:53 PM EST

BOSTON - Henry Louis Gates Jr., the nation's pre-eminent black scholar, is accusing Cambridge police of racism after he was arrested while trying to force open the locked front door of his home near Harvard University.

Cambridge police were called to the home Thursday afternoon after a woman reported seeing a man "wedging his shoulder into the front door as to pry the door open," according to a police report.

An offi… Continue

Things change.

Until 1945, Europe had been a hopeless war zone for millennia. South Korea has changed beyond recognition in the past half century. China and India are changing. And Africa will change too, though it’s always been Africa’s bad luck that it has no Africa of its own to exploit. What will expedite that change in the right directions?

A facile mantra is now widely recited by politicians both Western and African: African solutions for African problems. At best, that’s only a half-tru… Continue

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The 27th of April 2009 is the 37th anniversary of the passing of Ghana’s
first president Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah. Nkrumah famously declared on the occasion of Ghana’s indepedance that it is “meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the Afrikan continent.” Noted academic Dr Ali Mazrui said of the man of him: “Nkrumah’s greatest bequest to Africa was the agenda of continental unification. No one else has made the case for continental integration mor… Continue

The people of Africa want immediate unity and integration. If we were to put it to a referendum by the African masses, unity would have happened within a day.

All boundaries and regional passports as well as national and regional identities would be abolished. The masses want to bring them down. The African masses want to move within the African continent; their big house, with full freedom.

The African masses are tired of borders, restrictions, national passports and identity cards. The peopl… Continue

Edmund Kagire
20 April
2009

Kigali — Foreign Affairs Minister Rosemary Museminari has returned from Tripoli, Libya where she was
attending the 12th Extraordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union which
agreed to transform the African Union Commission into African Union Authority.

The Saturday meeting of the Executive Council which is made up of Ministers of Foreign Affairs from AU Member States discussed modalities for the implementation of the decision of the General Assem… Continue