USA Africa Dialogue Series - Brother Harvey Cropper
Eulogy sure to follow. I'm working on it, since he meant so much to me.Harvey Cropper Gustav Broms wrote: "At this time I'm working on the manuscript to a documentary about the artist Harvey Cropper...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Fw: OBAMA’S SNUBBING OF NIGERIA
Is Obama "snubbing" the other 50 or so countries that he is not visiting? And why should an African nation care if the USA "snubs" them? Should not Nigeria and other African nations focus more...
View ArticleRe: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Fw: OBAMA’S SNUBBING OF NIGERIA
i agree with this perspective. but it is only half right, as far as i can see. the real problem, kwame, is that you are conflating the leader with the people. you say, "shouldn't nigeria" do this and...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - FW: Sweden riots expose ugly side of Nordic...
Five sites on Swedish racism.Professor Gloria EmeagwalixxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxSwedish minister denies claims of racism over black woman ......
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Kenyan Mau Mau promised payout as UK expresses...
Kenyan Mau Mau promised payout as UK expresses regret over abuseWilliam Hague to announce payments of £2,600 each to some 5,000survivors of UK prison camps set up during 1950s conflictIan...
View ArticleRe: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Fw: OBAMA’S SNUBBING OF NIGERIA
Peace, Brother Ken. You said:but the leader functions for the nation, for the national interest, not for some hypothetical moral stance.But national leaders take moral stances all the time. And, whilst...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Quote of the Day
"In the world of form, blame is a convenient excuse for why our world is not exactly what we'd like it to be. The state of the world is a reflection of our state of mind."– Wayne DyerWith compliments:...
View ArticleRe: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Collaboration with a museum in Nigeria
Dear Catalani,You may wish to collaborate with our museum in our University. We have two different museums in our university, Obafemi Awolowo Univerity, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. We have the Natural History...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - World Bank - IMF Watch 2013
Are the World Bank and IMF working for the people or for big finance? This years World Bank - IMF Watch focuses on a number of areas where the international financial institutions (IFIs) are sadly...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Unblocking results: using aid to address...
Governance constraints and weak institutions are a major cause of poor public service delivery in developing countries, yet there is little evidence on whether and how aid can help to release or...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Who pays the price? Hunger: the hidden cost of...
Christian Aid estimates that businesses that benefit from lack of transparency in trade and financial systems also plays a role in exacerbating hunger: they deprive the poorer countries of some €124...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - A guide for NGOs working on HIV prevention projects
This NGO Communications Guide is designed to give those working in civil society organisations practical knowledge and tools to help them better tell the story of the work that they do, and also to...
View ArticleRe: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Fw: OBAMA’S SNUBBING OF NIGERIA
good point kwame. they each promote "national interest" as they interpret it.... kenOn 6/6/13 3:54 AM, kwame zulu shabazz wrote:Peace, Brother Ken. You said:but the leader functions for the nation,...
View ArticleRe: USA Africa Dialogue Series - FW: Sweden riots expose ugly side of Nordic...
the cake is not a valid example. it was an african artist who made a weird cake depicting sara bartmann, and as a performance artist, emitted groans whenever it was cut.you can call this a weird,...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Contemporary problems of democracy (3) By Edwin...
http://www.chidoonumah.com/2013/06/contemporary-problems-of-democracy-3.html#axzz2VK2LucGjThe following statement should, perhaps, be made at this point: Crucial in understanding and appreciating...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Contemporary problems of democracy (3) By Edwin...
http://www.chidoonumah.com/2013/06/contemporary-problems-of-democracy-3.html#axzz2VK2LucGjThe following statement should, perhaps, be made at this point: Crucial in understanding and appreciating...
View ArticleRe: USA Africa Dialogue Series - FW: Sweden riots expose ugly side of Nordic...
Only four more sites remaining Professor Harrow? I even wish that you were talking about Iranian nuclear sites after the first wave of pre-emptive strikes – and the four remaining sites more to be...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Maple Tree Literary Supplement, MTLS issue 15
Hello Cornelius,Yes, there is something about Achebe. The long poem by Soyinka in this new issue on an eulogy to Achebe. See http://www.mtls.ca/issue15/writings/poetry/wole-soyinka/AmatoritseroOn...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Soyinka's Eulogy to Achebe
From MTLS :Elegy for a NationIAh, Chinua, are you grapevine wired? It sings: our nation is not dead, not clinically Yet. Now this may come as a surprise to you, It was to...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - The Ree, the Roo, the Raa!; or Bene Bene Pendentes!
..."This was the dark ages in clerical as well as in any other term: popes fought for office like the nastiest of mafia bosses; devilish intrigue and executions were not exempt"......
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