Ama Biney

In Britain there has yet to emerge a movement to decolonize British universities, particularly in the fields of African Studies, the Humanities and Social Sciences along with an increased appointment of African scholars in these specific fields.

The question ‘Are women human beings?’ is the provocatively titled lecture that was scheduled to take place by the Saudi Academy of Education and Public Consultation on 1 March 2016.

David Cameron’s insulting dismissal of trans-Atlantic slavery and that Africans and people of African descent should “move on from this painful legacy, and continue to build for the future,” would never be audaciously uttered to Jewish people by this arrogant warmonger prime minister, who bombed

Am I a feminist?
What does it mean to be a feminist today?
Am I a feminist if I challenge a man talking over me or another sister, because
he innately thinks he’s superior,
He knows better,
that women should listen and not speak,
that I’m his audience,

Individuals on the ‘left’, or those who prefer the characterisation ‘progressives’, ‘radicals’ or ‘activists’ are conscious of the fact that the imperialist leopard never changes its spots. Though it may appear to do so, the change is illusionary.

The 25th May commemorates “Africa Liberation Day” on the African continent. This year marks 51 years since the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was founded on 25 May 1963. It also marks 5 years since the passing of Dr.

The Africa I want to see …
Is an Africa feeding itself from its abundant resources,
Producing solar energy from a sun that never fails to shine
Ensuring the diversity of our plant life and seeds are in the control of our farmers and
Not GMOs that will kill life.

The film “Comrade President” on the life and times of Mozambican leader, Samora Machel, was shown to a very well attended audience in the British Film Institute (BFI) in central London on 26 April 2014. It opened with the profoundly poignant words from Graca Machel, the late widow of Samora:

Too often our people look to the past thinking it is better than now

Thinking that the era of military dictatorships had no corruption,

That things were better in the past, that things worked,

There was no inflation in the idealised past.

HIS story (otherwise commonly known as history), continues to tell narratives and accounts of the past from a male perspective.