“Strongmen or Strong Institutions: Which Way for Africa?” by Nkwazi N. Mhango

Those are my catch words from President Barack Obama’s stunning speech in Ghana, although he dwelt on many issues reminiscent to Africa’s endemic and systemic problems. Unlike other past American presidents, Obama seems determined to face the reality by giving African potentates a bitter pill to swallow.
Before becoming US president, many African strongmen such as [...]

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sat’day riddymz #22

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Is The Semenya Case Old Wine in an African Bottle?!

The 10 Most Shocking Olympic Gender Scandals

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1. Dora Ratjen
For the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin, Adolf Hitler wanted to show the world the supremacy of the Aryan race. German, Dora Ratjen, notable for her deep voice and her refusal to share the shower room with the other female athletes, was Germany’s entry for the [...]

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“Darfur: Are Muslims a Betrayal?” by Nkwazi N. Mhango

“Brother, to me, there are no Muslims in this world presently except Darfuris. Since the Arab-backed illegitimate regime under Omar Bashir started butchering my people, all we mistook to be Muslims, especially Arabs, became infidels (kaffirs) for not acting.”
These are the sarcastic words by Salih Fur whom I met on plane on my way to Winnipeg [...]

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Caster Semenya Deserves Better

Eighteen year old South African runner Caster Semenya bolted to the world’s attention when she shattered records on the track. At the African Junior Championships in Mauritius she posted the fastest 800-meter run of the year at the time with a 1:56:72. When she competed in her first senior championship at the world [...]

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sat’day Riddymz #21

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District 9: The future in the shadow of the past that is today

Every so often a film comes along which blows me away… as it stirs so much emotions and thoughts within me. Earlier this year it was ”Gran Torino“. Now it’s “District 9“.
I don’t want to reveal too much of the plot, but here is the basic storyline. The movie starts with the arrival of a spaceship over Johannesburg, South Africa, with over a million sick and malnourished aliens on [...]

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U.S. Supreme Court orders new hearing for Troy Davis

Yesterday, Monday 17th August 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a federal judge in Georgia to consider and rule on the claim of innocence in the murder case against Troy Anthony Davis. Davis was convicted and sentenced to death in 1991 of murdering an off-duty Savannah police officer, Mark Allen MacPhail, in 1989.  Since his trial, Davis has claimed [...]

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