Snow In Kenya

Andrew Mwenda

This is a video from last year but the issues discussed are relevant to date.

Two years ago, Sol Guy and Joshua Sage (known collectively [...]

Development: The “African Way”
Two articles in the July issue of the London, UK-based New African magazine about the need to have a new African development paradigm reminded me of President John Kufour’s recent BBC World Debate forum in Johannesburg, South Africa where he envisaged the coming of a new African development philosophy, informed from [...]

Information age: M1 of dead prez interviews Mumia Abu Jamal

by POCC Minister of Culture M1

Part 1

M1 of dead prez after a recent concert in Frisco
The Prisoners of Conscience Committee Minister [...]

Panelists talks about Binyanvanga in respect to writing about Africa

Playboy waits for his African throne

RW Johnson, Cape Town

A SPENDTHRIFT playboy is poised to take control of the tiny state of Equatorial Guinea, Africa’s third-largest exporter of oil, amid fears that he may plunge it into civil war.Teodorin Nguema Obiang, 35, eldest son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, has been groomed to succeed his [...]

When the British colonialists established an airbase at Eastleigh, little did they know that it would grow into a huge commercial gateway.It has since evolved into a “Dubai” of East Africa, where cheap imports are accessible.
Today, the dry ‘free’ inland port attracts traders from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and Uganda.
Eastleigh was first allowed [...]

Playstation 2 component incites African war
Has the video game industry dug up its very own blood diamond?According to a report by activist site Toward Freedom, for the past decade the search for a rare metal necessary in the manufacturing of Sony’s Playstation 2 game console has fueled a brutal conflict in the Democratic Republic of [...]

Disney’s first African-American princess — back to the drawing boardby Bethany Sanders
Here’s the good news: Disney is finally creating their first African-American princess. Here’s the bad news: They just can’t seem to get it right. The first version, The Frog Princess, was scrapped due to complaints that it was too stereotypical. The princess, named Maddy, [...]