New African back issues from October 2007:
Letters
Oct 01, 2007; ... African unity Like Akyaaba Addai-Sebo (NA, June), it's also my fervent wish to see the unity of Africa. Yet, my wish gets tempered by the reality on the ground. The reality always reminds me that most of our present rulers are megalomaniacs who don't allow for a genuine, independent ...
Retrieving the past is no taboo
Oct 01, 2007; ... By Ansel Wong, a native of Trinidad & Tobago who, as head of the Ethnic Minority Unit of the Greater London Council in 1987, was very instrumental in the foundation of Black History Month UK. This month is the 20th anniversary of Black History Month UK. It is a celebration that ...
Shame on you, Mr Sarkozy
Oct 01, 2007; ... "The tragedy of Africa is that the African man has never really entered history. The African peasant has known only the eternal renewal of time via the endless repetition of the same actions and the same words. In this mentality, where everything always starts over again, there is no place for ...
Slavery gets first permanent museum
Oct 01, 2007; ... Mercy Eze reports from Liverpool, United Kingdom Tucked in the stillness of Liverpool's Albert Dock within the Merseyside Maritime Museum now sits the world's first permanent museum devoted to the transatlantic slave trade. The International Slavery Museum shows the horrific instruments ...
A giant step for mankind
Oct 01, 2007; ... Mixed race marriages have become so common these days that nobody bats an eyelid when a mixed-race couple passes them on the street. But it wasn't always like that. Fifty-nine years ago, the marriage of the Botswana prince, Seretse Khama, to what one British MP described in the House of Commons ...
The diaspora and the future of Africa
Oct 01, 2007; ... Africans at home and in the diaspora, of every social background, gender, education and belief, must rise to the call of cultural renewal and socioeconomic regeneration. We cannot escape the political and socio-economic environment in which we exist. In the face of the difficulty and crisis, ...
LIES! LIES! LIES!
Oct 01, 2007; ... For 34 weeks since 25 March this year, Britain and its former colonies have been celebrating "Wilberforce 2007", a major commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the day the Abolition of Slavery Bill was passed by the British Parliament in 1807. The commemoration will end this month (October), ...
Africans must take their history seriously
Oct 01, 2007; ... The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has called on Africans to never forget their history, reports Kingsley Antwi Bosiako from Kumasi, Ghana. Africans forget their history at their peril, says the Asantehene, Otumfiio Osei Tutu II, the king of the Asante people of Ghana. In an indirect ...
Leaders and stress: managing the monster
Oct 01, 2007; ... Stress is part and parcel of active life. You can't but welcome stress if you're alive and active. In fact, experts say stress is useful as a work-life morale booster. But there is another kind of stress that results in distress, fatigue, emotional disorders, mental breakdowns, and other health ...
South Africa: 'Tell the truth, tell everything'
Oct 01, 2007; ... As apartheid South Africa's minister of law and order, Adrian Vlok radiated terror. On 17 August this year, he pleaded his way out of prison. Pusch Commey reports on how l'enfant terrible got away with it. In his heyday, Adrian Vlok, apartheid South Africa's minister of law and order ...
Ghana: How the power shortage is being fought
Oct 01, 2007; ... Following our story in the June issue, "Ghana: Electricity crisis worsens", the country's minister for energy, Kofi Adda, has unveiled a programme aimed at solving the electricity problems in the country. The power crisis in Ghana has resulted in the shedding of load throughout rhe ...
'He rose above the greatest without arrogance'
Oct 01, 2007; ... After seven years of wrangling between the mayor of London and Westminster Council, a 9ft statue of Nelson Mandela has finally been unveiled in London's Parliament Square, not Trafalgar Square (the original site), Osei Boateng reports. If encomiums can kill a person, Nelson Mandela, the ...
Uganda: Dammed if you do, damned if you don't
Oct 01, 2007; ... The green light has finally been given to a controversial multi-million dollar hydro-electric dam project on the River Nile. But, Stuart Price asks, will it be the silver bullet to Uganda's stifling power shortages, or will it leave the country precariously exposed to the consequences of climate ...
Carving up the Congo
Oct 01, 2007; ... In a sinister replication of the disgraceful treatment of DRCongo by Belgium during its colonial occupation, the plunder of the country's natural resources continues unabated. Stuart Price reports. In the murky days of colonial occupation, it was ivory pillaged by Europeans from deep ...
Angola's new friends
Oct 01, 2007; ... Angola is now China's leading oil supplier, outstripping Saudi Arabia. Within the next decade, China will outpace the US as the biggest global consumer of oil. China, thus, sees Angola as a partner worthy of special attention. Kate Eshelby reports. A string of Chinese workers, dressed in ...
Should Mandela statue be in UK's Parliament Square?
Oct 01, 2007; ... "Perhaps the fact of our presence here ... might serve to close a circle which is 200 years old. I say 200 years because the first time this country [Britain] entered ours as a colonising power was the year 1795" - Nelson Mandela to a joint-sitting of the British Houses of Parliament, ...
2010 WORLD CUP: South Africa is on the ball
Oct 01, 2007; ... Since winning the prestigious, yet challenging mandate to host the 2010 Fifa World Cup, South Africa has been weathering a storm of cynical international media scepticism and downright misrepresentation regarding its preparations for the event. But as Mercy Eze reports, the true image is ...
Cameroon: The woes of the cotton industry
Oct 01, 2007; ... Over 3.5 million Cameroonians depend on cotton directly and indirectly for their livelihood. But the sector has been in crisis since 2004. If no help comes very soon, the country's Cotton Development Company might not survive. Tansa Musa reports. Cameroon's Cotton Development Company ...
What is inflation?
Oct 01, 2007; ... Take Zimbabwe. If you have no market to buck, because you have been deprived of your markets and your credit lines by foul Western economic sanctions, then you can do what the hell you like. If you cannot operate orthodox economic theories, then you have to operate unorthodox economic theories ....
Kenya: Sheer glass
Oct 01, 2007; ... An hour's drive from Nairobi's city-centre is Kitengela Glass. It is one of Africa's most extraordinary arts' centres and it will take your breath away, reports Stephen Williams. Many tourists to Kenya's capital visit Nairobi National Patk, a wifdlife sanctuary unique in the continent ...
Debating Zimbabwe
Oct 01, 2007; ... We have received a stream of reactions to our two "sponsored reports" on Zimbabwe published in May (political situation) and October (economy). In line with our policy of giving our readers room to have their say, we publish below a sample of their reactions. As you read along, one important ...
The sex trade in colonial West Africa
Oct 01, 2007; ... In the final of her three-part series, Carina Ray looks at the last stage of the protracted struggle to bring an end to the traffic in women and children for the purposes of prostitution in colonial British West Africa. In the first installment of this three part series, we explored the ...