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Think You Know Africa? Take the Geography Quiz

23 Saturday Mar 2013

Posted by Adrian in Africa

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Greeting’s Everyone!

I discovered this geography quiz from Cedric McCay, but it was originally posted by Patrick Memoli.

I thought that I would change it up this week. I found the quiz to be very fun! What will you score!?

Think you know Africa? Take our geography quiz. »

“Africa is the world’s second-largest continent and the cradle of humanity. Its vast diversity includes deserts, rainforests, savannas, and everything in between. The continent is home to 53 countries,..”
I have a lot to learn. My score was the following:

Think you know Africa? Take our geography quiz.

Quiz results

Your score Average reader score Expert score
12
Correct
9
Wrong
57%
You answered 12 of 21 questions correctly for a total score of 57%.

The average reader score is 80%

Adrian

“Malema: How African youths are exploited by opportunists” ‏by Nkwazi Mhango

20 Wednesday Mar 2013

Posted by asabagna in African National Congress, African Politics, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Critical Thinking, Jacob Zuma, Julius Malema, Nkwazi Mhango, South Africa

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ANC’s former youth leader Julius Malema is a magnific example of the guy who fell from the grace disgracefully and quickly altogether. During his heyday, the name Malema sufficed to remove or put you behind the bar. As a youth wing leader, Malema was president in his own light. He had the ear and the mind of the president. Therefore, he was able to access preferential financial goodies simply because he was the cadre of ANC, South Africa’s ruling and bullying party so to speak.

Those who remember how instrumental Machiavellian Malema was in bringing down former President Thabo Mbeki are still baffled to see the mess Malema is currently in. Again, Malema created his downfall after thinking that he’d use Zuma, who used him to attain more power. For Malema it was simple. If unschooled Zuma would topple a literati like Mbeki, why not him (Malema) who is more educated than Zuma? Malema’s predicaments show how dirty African politics are especially when those behind it are ultra-opportunists and gullible. Who would expect Jacob Zuma to boot Malema out mercilessly and quickly like that? Media has it that Malema’s quickly and dubiously attained wealth is now quickly up for the grab after he’s implicated in tax evasion and presenting false documents to acquire loans from public financial institutions.

The secret is now open that Malema amassed wealth illegally thanks to being in the upper echelons of power. It came to light that Malema is now facing bankruptcy after evading tax at the tune of millions of Rand.

Like Cyrus Jirongo and William Ruto (Kenya), Charles Ble Goude (Ivory Coast who is now behind the bar), Emanuel Nchimbi (Tanzania current powerful minister who is oft-accused of acquiring fake degrees, but authorities never dealt with these allegations) and other youth leaders in the continent, Malema washed his hands and dined and wined with kings. Once this happens, someone becomes infallible and all his sins are shelved, till when he tries to be smart by stabbing or betraying his master.

All those mentioned former youth leaders are either influential in the politics in their countries, or have influential positions in the governments, or are richer than they were supposed to be, if not disgraced for those who happen to try to become free.

Being a youth leader, Malema a school dropout, became a force to be reckoned with due to the fact that he was the head of youths who make up a big chunk of the population in almost all African countries. Normally, shrewd African rulers use youths and women as their vehicles to get to power. They wisely know how these two groups are comprised of the majority of voters they need badly when the time comes. This is what happened when Jacob Zuma wanted to ousted Mbeki. By then Malema was among the high and mighty that no law could touch or handle adversely, until the time he fell out with Zuma.

Experience has shown that many shrewd politicians who aim at becoming president prefer to use illiterate, Machiavellian or semi-illiterate youth leaders to make it to the top as it was in the case of Malema. Now that Malema is in hot soup as he cascades down to political oblivion, he is left alone facing all types of problems real and manmade.

Sometimes youth leaders, as stooges of those who use them to do their dirty laundry, became aware of the dirty role they play so as to rebel. When this happens chances are that they end up being pulled down so as to disappear in oblivion as it happened in the case of Malema. Hadn’t Malema turned against his masters, all these woes Malema is in now would not have seen the light of the day. When they turned against their masters they had either to sink or float all depending on the results of this fallout. Ruto for example, was able to use former president Daniel arap Moi to reach where he now, while Malema was used by Zuma to end up in troubles just like Ble Goude who went under with his boss Laurent Gbgbo.

In a nutshell, Malema’s plight-cum-flight to the apogee and bottom of power in South Africa should act as an eye opener for African youths, especially the way they are used by corrupt and shrewd politicians and opportunists to achieve their goals, while they just exploit and dump youth just like eggshells.

Nkwazi Mhango is a Tanzanian living in Canada. He writes regularly for “The African Executive” and also has a blog entitled “Free Thinking Unabii”. He is a regular contributor to AfroSpear.

Shane Sullivan, Tennessee Police Chief, Using Polygraph To Identify Racist Applicants

17 Sunday Mar 2013

Posted by Adrian in Uncategorized

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A computerized polygraph machine

Greeting’s Everyone,

A few current events have been sad to read lately. It was especially sad to hear about Marco McMillian.

On February 20, 2013 our blog featured Asabagna’s story on what he went through at the police department.  A story, in my opinion, that was very powerful and needed to be shared. We have read or probably heard of various stories across the world.

The article by Sheila Burke has intrigued me. This is just one side of the story, but it is an interesting preventative measure. Although, “Polygraphs in and of themselves have a lot of problems,” Hedy Weinberg, executive director of the ACLU of Tennessee, said.

What do you think? Is this a small step in the right direction?

Click here or on the image above to go to article.

Peace,

Adrian

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sat’day riddymz

16 Saturday Mar 2013

Posted by asabagna in AfroSpear, AfroSphere, sat'day riddymz

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Julie Wangombe: A poetic reintroduction to Africa

11 Monday Mar 2013

Posted by asabagna in Africa, African Elections, African Politics, African Women, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Julie Wangombe, Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta

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Julie Wangombe, 23 years old Nairobian and a student at Duke University, first discovered spoken word poetry at Slam Africa events. Today she performs for audiences globally. She is also Kenya’s President-elect, Uhuru Kenyatta’s speechwriter. She wrote his acceptance speech that he delivered on 09 March 2013, soon after being declared the winner of the presidential election. The speech has received praise from many Kenyans, who have described it as inspiring and unifying. You can read the speech here.

Sunday Inspirations

10 Sunday Mar 2013

Posted by asabagna in AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Ibrahima Diallo Sambegou, Polite Stewart, Sunday Inspirations

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A Guinean mathematician solves 270-year-old conjecture

Ibrahima Diallo Sambegou is the 1st African mathematician of the modern era to have developed a theorem. The 35 year old Guinean mathematical researcher and journalist was able to find the solution to the Goldbach Conjectur.

This mathematical problem has been laid there over 270 years by the Russian mathematician Christian Goldbach, guardian of Tsar Peter II and official in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1742, he sent a letter to his contemporary Leonhard Euler in which he made out that “every even number greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two primes.”

It took 14 years of work by the Guinean young mathematician before arriving at the solution. Sambegou has knocked on all doors to validate his work. Faced with a lack of support in his country, he decided to go to The Institute of Mathematics in Dakar, Senegal to validate the results of his research.

He hopes to find support to be the first African contemporary to have developed a theorem.

Polite Stewart Jr., 18-Year-Old Physics Major, Earns Bachelors Degree From Southern University

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sat’day riddymz

09 Saturday Mar 2013

Posted by asabagna in AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Biggie Smalls, Christopher Wallace, hip hop music, sat'day riddymz

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My favourite Biggie song ever!

R.I.P. Christopher Wallace: May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997

Perspective

09 Saturday Mar 2013

Posted by Adrian in Uncategorized

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Greeting’s Everyone,

I have decided to take a step back this week in the hopes of receiving your opinion. Yes, your opinion matters!

I have seen some great articles on the blog. I have read passionate ideas and I enjoy the fact that we are sharing our opinions, ideas, and thoughts.

I have grown ten times over by reading what people have to say on AfroSpear. I might agree or disagree with the argument, but our digital space is a place of dialogue and learning.

I created a website and again, I want to know your opinion. Please leave a comment on the blog or send me a message on the “Contact” page to let me know what you think. It only takes a second.

Check out the pictures under the “Traveler” section and see my first post under the “Journal” section.

The website is the following:

www.althinktank.com

Peace,

Adrian aka altglobal

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