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New constitution-making has surged in agrarian economies since 1990, correspondent to significant political change (multi-partyism in particular) and a surge in globalisation, and of which, among other trends, the noted surge in large-scale land acquisition in agrarian states and accelerating con

'I stand before you today on my own behalf and that of my government and all past governments to offer a sincere apology to all our compatriots for all past wrongs....’ read in part , the President Uhuru Kenyatta’s speech on March 26, 2015.

Claudia Jones was a revolutionary whose activism spanned two continents, North America and Europe. Claudia Vera Cumberbatch was born on February 21, 1915 in Belmont, Trinidad and Tobago, the land that has given rise to political luminaries such as C.L.R.

“Victim” is the name that Mphandlana Shongwe - a founding member of Swaziland’s democratic movement, PUDEMO - is commonly known by in the small absolute monarchy of Swaziland.

When Reeyot was arrested and imprisoned by the personal order of the late T-TPLF capo di tutti capi (boss of all bosses) Meles Zenawi in June 2011, I was outraged but not surprised. I had no idea who she was; never heard of her name.

INSPIRATION

Pio Gama Pinto had to die because he was perhaps the near perfect African socialist in a Kenya that was probably 95 per cent capitalist, if only subconsciously.

In an alarming development that illustrates how Europe is adopting police and even military solutions to what it sees as its "migrant crisis" – and reflects the real underlying world crises – Nato has sent warships to the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey.

In 2013, Elaine Colville, a British national and former World Bank staff wrote a revealing article titled "US and EU ignore plight of blacks at World Bank." The article lamented that with European and North American countries "controlling the overwhelming majority of the voting rights of the Worl