Pan-Africanism

At last, quintessential Nigerian art, looted by British marauders in the 19th century and which are du jour residents of western museums, may return home, where it belongs in the Benin Kingdom in Nigeria (not to be mistaken with the Republic of Benin, the country in West Africa).

Martin Luther King Jr. probably had a premonition of dying. A day before he was assassinated he predicted that he might be taken out by “some of our sick white brothers.” Later in the same speech he added, “But it really doesn’t matter with me now…I’ve been to the mountaintop ….

Seven years ago this month, beginning on 19 March 2011, the United States Pentagon and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) began a massive bombing campaign against the North African state of Libya.

23 February 2018 represented the 150th birthday of W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the leading intellectual and organisational figures to emerge during the 19th century who extended his contributions well into the 20th century.

The image of the black panther is a symbol of Black power in the Caucasian paradigm. I use Thomas Kuhn’s definition of paradigm developed in his essay “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”¹ published in 1962.

Adulation keeps flowing in, after the release of Black Panther, Marvel’s black superhero movie that features many Black firsts: the all Black star-studded cast, led by a Black superhero, and his Black love interest, was directed by a Black man.

In a Ted talk in 2009, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, highlighted the “danger of a single story”, as it assumes that a person’s identity is one dimensional, and thus negates any other aspects.

Imperialist war, the dignity of work and the ultimate objective of total freedom

SHARMINI PERIES: It is The Real News Network. I am Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.

When the press and media of the so-called Western world adjust their depiction of a nation they had formally demonised to a depiction of one worthy of cooperation we should pause for a more critical analysis.