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[Keynote address to the International Seminar on The Global South – From Bandung to the XXI Century (September 28-30, 2015), Universidade Federal Sāo Paulo.]

AFRICA IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: THE BASICS

Prof. Mesfin Woldemariam’s latest Amharic book, “Adafne: Fear and Failure”, is at once a lamentation on the decline and decay of Ethiopian society from the corrosive effects of bad governance, tyrannical rule and moral corruption and a call to action for redemption.

As the star-studded endorsements and media hype surrounding the all-pervasive Global Goals campaign begins to subside, a very different truth is beginning to emerge about this latest attempt by the international community to end poverty and create an ecol

On October 21, 2015, the Honorable Congressman Gregory Meeks of New York issued a press release bestowing unreserved praise on World Bank president Jim Yong Kim, stunning Black staffers in the World Bank who find these undeserved accolades groundless hyperbole and overboard at best, or an unquali

Running Nigeria is no easy feat, not even when you are Muhammadu Buhari and you have your second stint as head of state, albeit a democratically elected one.

Archbishop Munzihirwa Mwenengabo Christophe was appointed Archbishop of Bukavu (South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo) March 24, 1994. On October 29, 1996, he was assassinated.

In July 2014, Ander Kompass, a senior official in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), received a report about the sexual abuse of children at a camp for those displaced by the brutal conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR).

On 25 Sunday October 2015, there were two general elections and a referendum in African countries. In Ivory Coast, citizens were electing a new president in polls that were boycotted by close to 40% of registered voters according to officials quoted by Radio France Internationale [1].

Speaking to students on the 21 October, 1949, the then SRC [Students’ Representative Council"> President at the University of Fort Hare, the great Mangaliso Sobukwe, had this to say: “...We must fight for freedom. For the right to call our souls our own.

Windhoek, Namibia
9 October 2015

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