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- Why Kenya and Ethiopia ought to annex and divide Somalia By : Donald Kipkorir
Supporting the Southern Sudan government is in our long-term strategic interest and we should not shy from it. The truth of the matter is that as a Western ally, Kenya is an existential enemy of Arab countries, Sudan included. Annexing Somalia is thus in our strategic interest and we must do it now as the financial meltdown continues to take away the attention of the world. - October 3rd: The Day Abyssinia (Fake ‘Ethiopia’) Was Colonized and the Racist Amharas Humiliated By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
This is an opportunity to denounce the entire entry of Wikipedia ‘History of Ethiopia’ as totally and monstrously false, and as the most perfidious and vicious effort to demonstrate that a country or civilization under the name of ‘Ethiopia’ has ever existed on the territories of Abyssinia, and on all the East African territories annexed and/or targeted by the racist Amharas, Africa’s worst replica of Hitler and the Nazism. - Zuma's presidency will be calamitous, he is supremely unsuitable for the job By : Abdulahi Ahmednassir
Zuma's presidency will be calamitous. He is supremely unsuitable to be the president of any country, leave alone South Africa with its past tortured history and promising future. He will take South Africa down the ruinous road tin-god dictators with similar background took their countries in Africa. - Of Gaddafi, my father and the dream of trilingual Africa By : Ali A. Mazrui
Gaddafi regards oil as a historic opportunity for present-day Muslims to ensure an influential role for Islam in world affairs. But over time his nationalism has steadily become more secular. In a long conversation I once had with the Libyan leader in Tripoli, he emphasised the need for a clear language policy if Africans were to realise their development, independence and unity dreams. - Obama win could boost blacks in global political arena By : Ali A. Mazrui
As the 20th Century was coming to a close, Nelson Mandela achieved unique status. He became the first truly universal black moral leader in the world in his own lifetime after spending 27 years in prison. Martin Luther King, Jr achieved universal status after his death. President Barack Obama may be the final fulfilment of upward political mobility. Will he be the ultimate Brain Bonus for Global Africa? The answer remains in the womb of a history that is still unfolding. - Makerere: An attraction for international leaders By : Ali A. Mazrui
The process of globalisation is making us more and more alike in spite of huge distances between us. But that same process is ensuring who is the boss among us. - English Orientalist Richard Burton and English Colonialism denounced by Patriotic Somalis By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
In a society organized in tribes, and with historical pride running high for every tribe’s members, there has to be an Islamic Empire to forge a real unity around a faith and a culture, a civilization and a science, a philosophy and an art that have by now gone. It would be great for the Somalis to focus and analyze why there were no fratricide antagonisms at the times of the Awdal Empire. The exploration of the subject and the conclusions drawn would be able to forge a new unity – again. - There Will Never Be a New 'Ethiopia' – what Obang Metho seems to forget! By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
As crown of the premeditated genocide, the same criminal Abyssinian terrorist group, properly speaking Hitler’s Children in Africa, established out of severe falsification of History a bogus-historical dogma – that of the so-called ‘Ethiopianism’ – that they tyrannically imposed on all the rest, who have totally rejected it as historically inconsistent and fraudulent, inhumanly racist, and absolutely alien to them. - The Unnecessary Bloodshed: Afars and Issa Somalis in Fratricidal Conflict By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
16 decades of colonial and postcolonial rule in the Horn of Africa region were quite enough to deteriorate an African rivalry and exasperate two different but grand and glorious East African nations, namely the Afars and the Issa Somalis. - Makerere is the vanguard of globalisation in Eastern Africa By : Ali A. Mazrui
Globalisation is a new word but it represents a long-drawn out historical process. It consists of the forces that are pushing the world into becoming a global village. Most recently, those forces have been at their most dramatic in the Information Superhighway: Internet and the death of distance and in the spectacular interdependence of the world economy. When South-East Asian economies take a downturn, Boeing feels the pain because sales of planes decline dramatically. - R. Burton’s Preface: Fervent Call for Urgent Colonization of Berbera - 1856 By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Written in London, after the completion of the trip, the Preface does not hinge on notes and travel remarks; it thus reflects better than any other part of the book Burton’s real approach to the Somalis, the Oromos, and the Eastern African Islam in general. - Amhara Presence in Shoa Historically Illegitimate - 1841 English Mission Report in R. Burton's Book By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Appendix V from Burton’s book: under the title ‘A Condensed Account of an Attempt to Reach Harar from Ankobar’, Burton publishes a text written by the English Commander William Barker of the Indian Navy precisely 14 years before Burton undertook his own exploration. - Racism and Disrespect of Somalia Evident in English Orientalist R. Burton’s Postscript By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The Postscript of R. Burton's book 'First footsteps in East Africa or, An Exploration of Harar' - English Orientalist R. Burton exploring Berbera, slandering Oromos, and denigrating Somalis By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Richard Burton's Chapter X – Berberah and its Environs / from his book 'First footsteps in East Africa or, An Exploration of Harar' - Sidama Intellectual Seyoum Hameso Unveils Evil Amhara Projects of Cultural Genocide in ‘Ethiopia’ By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The scarce presence of the Amhara settlers (less than 1% of the local population) and the few local renegades, traitors and Quislings (equally less than 1% of the local population, people selected to "represent" their subjugated, tyrannized and massacred nations) became the means of, and the pretext for, the imposition of a new dimension of Amhara Monophysitic tyranny, at the educational, linguistic, cultural, spiritual and religious levels. - English Orientalist Burton's Excursion to Berbera: Heralding Ruthless Colonial Rule By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Richard Burton's Ride to Berberah and Notes about the Isaaq Somalis - Burton reveals the Evil Amhara Plans for Genocide Against Oromos, Somalis and All Muslims - Part I By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Chapter VIII of R. Burton's book (about Harar). Quite interestingly, in the epicenter of Africa's Islam, at Harar, Burton finds time to expand on the Islamic – Monophysitic (heretic) Abyssinian relationship, and in the process he inadvertently reveals the truth about the evil purposes of the Amhara tribe and their racist and barbaric "kings" to eradicate Islam from Africa. - Tom Mboya's Mausoleum - The historical gem of Rusinga Island, Kenya By : Harold Ayodo
Mboya's Mausoleum in Rusinga Island has become a historical site. It was built two years after his death. The burial chamber, constructed in 1971, is the shape of the silver bullet believed to have ended the life of the former Cabinet minister. - Anti-Somali, Racist Bogus-Historian Pankhurst refuted by R. Burton's mention of Jigjiga By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The reference to Jigjiga hills (in Chapter VII of R. Burton's book) automatically suggests the existence of a nearby town or city, already as early as 1855, and thus ridicules the inconsistent claims of the Amhara apologist and pseudo-historian Pankhurst that Jigjiga was founded by the Amhara Anti-Somali racists. - R. Burton's Undeserved, Racist Insults against Oromos and Gadabursi and Issa Somalis – Part II By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Chapter VI - From the Zeyla Hills to the Marar Prairie, from the famous book 'First footsteps in East Africa or, An Exploration of Harar' of the English Orientalist and explorer Richard Burton (published 1856) - Part II - R. Burton's Undeserved, Racist Insults against Oromos and Gadabursi and Issa Somalis - Part I By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Chapter VI - From the Zeyla Hills to the Marar Prairie, from the famous book 'First footsteps in East Africa or, An Exploration of Harar' of the English Orientalist and explorer Richard Burton (published 1856) - Part I - 'Agricultural revolution,' Japan's rescue package for Africa By : Tongkeh Joseph
In the height of the world food crisis, the African continent remains the hardest hit. Japan's promise to assist in curbing hunger in Africa is a gesture whose significance is beyond measure. This article examines this unprecedented move by japan, in the context of Africa's growing "look east" policy. - English Orientalist R. Burton's Adventures near Zeyla, in Northern Somalia By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
First footsteps in East Africa or, An Exploration of Harar' of the famous English Orientalist and explorer Richard Burton - Chapter III. – Excursions near Zeyla - Northern Somalia and Zeyla described by an English Explorer Richard Burton before 150 years By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Preconceived ideas, misperceptions, misunderstandings and distortions are omnipresent in Richard Burton's book which served as basic point of study and reference for the formation of the English colonial policy in the area of the Horn of Africa at the second half of the 19th century. - Sailing from Aden to Zeyla – R. Burton’s Notes, Prejudices, and Misinterpretations By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Continuing the re-publication of excerpts from Richard Burton’s ‘First footsteps in East Africa or, An Exploration of Harar’, a classic of the Orientalist literature of the 19th century, I reproduce today the first chapter of the book in which the English explorer, Orientalist, adventurer and colonialist describes his trip from Aden to Zeyla. - Somalis and Oromos Misrepresented by British Colonial Empire's Foremost Explorer By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
There will be no freedom and independence for Oromia and Ogaden, and there will be no peace and unity in Somalia, before colonialism is totally rejected by all the Oromos, the Ogadenis, and the Somalis. Or if due to other reasons independence and freedom come at a certain moment (‘allowed’ by the colonials), they will be conditioned to underdevelopment, misery, dependence and – which is the worst of all – ineffective nation building and absolute lack of national identity. - We should redefine our African identity By : Maurice Aluda
It is argued that the collapse of African states reveals the lack of vision of politicians and the inheritance of colonial philosophies. It is time that African scholars and intellectuals move out of their comfort zones and give this issue the seriousness it deserves. - Richard Burton on Sanaag – At the Origins of the British Anti-Somali Perfidy. Part 2 By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
I re-publish excerpts from the controversial book 'First footsteps in East Africa or, An Exploration of Harar', because I am convinced that it reveals negative intentions against, and a wrong perception of, Somalia. - Richard Burton on Sanaag – At the Origins of the British Anti-Somali Perfidy By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
I republish here integrally the Appendix I, Diary and Observations Made by Lieutenant Speke, When Attempting to Reach the Wadi Nogal. Richard Burton’s ‘First footsteps in East Africa or, An Exploration of Harar’ was published in 1856. I re-publish the controversial text here because I am convinced that it reveals negative intentions against, and a wrong perception of, Somalia; the ensuing English colonization of the northern part of Somalia was carried out by people who were based on this text. - Africa should take a non-Western route to modernity By : Ali A. Mazrui
The decolonisation of post-coloniality requires new levels of parity of esteem between civilisations. We have re-defined the once discredited concept of modernisation to mean change which is consistent with the present stage of human knowledge, which seeks to comprehend the legacy of the past, which is sensitive to the needs of future generations, and which is responsive to its global context. - Continent's courtship with superpowers By : James N. Kariuki
China's success in becoming the preferred trade partner of several African states was a Western concern initially when it referred to a handful of states such as Sudan and Zimbabwe. It became downright alarming when the list started to include resource-rich countries such as the DRC, Angola and South Africa. - Africa can prosper without culturally westernising By : Ali A. Mazrui
Post-colonial Africa must diversify the foreign cultures from which it seeks to learn. There is excessive reliance on the West as the only source. What is there in Japanese culture that has enabled the Japanese to beat the West at their own industrial game? - The Shekacho Genocide – The 'Ethiopian' Final Solution for a Glorious African Nation By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
A Call for public inquiry into Tepi, Awasa killings - Midgaan, Gabooye, Madhibaan – Persecuted Communities and Massacred Somalis in Lawless Somaliland By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Somaliland is one of Africa’s most tyrannical realms whereby a Mafia gang rules around dictator Riyaale and his omnipotent, greedy and merciless wife Huda Barkhad – the African version of Elena Ceausescu. - Comments on the HRW Report on Ogaden, Ancient History of Somalia, Abyssinia, Sudan and Yemen By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The Great and Noble Somali King, who fought against the joined forces of the Portuguese and the Abyssinians, only reacted to Abyssinian aggression; this nefarious attitude had started with the rise of the pseudo-dynasty of vulgar and uncouth elements, who were comically and erratically self-styled as …. descendants of King Solomon and the Yemenite Queen of Sheba, whom they fallaciously depicted as Abyssinian! - Mugabe's war with UK is decades-old By : James N. Kariuki
The Anglo-American decision to punish the country indiscriminately convinced Mugabe that the British agenda was to oust him and install the MDC to reverse his policies, especially on land. To Mugabe, the current crisis is a struggle against re-colonisation; losing it is not an option. Many African leaders, perhaps including Thabo Mbeki, are sympathetic to the view that the Zimbabwe elections are a war within a bigger war. - Global Africa and the concept of 'near-abroad' By : James N. Kariuki
Curtailment of Anglo-American influence in Zimbabwe is a higher SA foreign policy priority than human rights and democracy. It is not that democracy and human rights are irrelevant; it is that, in context of Western intrusions, those objectives are as dry as dust. - Africa's gain from Obama win By : Maj OJH Oswago
The Obama presidency may project Africa positively, in some indirect but powerful ways. The Northern hemispheric perception on Africa is paternalistic, in the sense of Africa’s underperformance and excess and the need for imposition of externally generated solutions. That perception is also fatalistic, in the sense that, Africa is seen as beyond salvage. - Oromos Appeal to the HRW, Revealing Flagrant Aspects of the Ethiopian Genocide By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Read what Mr. Bakkalcha Bariisaa wrote to the HRW, and try to imagine the extent of inhumanity practiced in the world's most appalling tyranny, Abyssinia (Fake 'Ethiopia'). Note his key sentence: "thousands are being killed every day in remote villages where there are no media to cover events". - Why democracy is still a mirage in many African countries By : Ali A. Mazrui
Democracy in Africa has previously been threatened or undermined by various societal, systemic and global factors. Societal factors have included ethnic rivalry, regional disparities, gender inequalities and weak national political culture. Systemic threats to African democracy have included the pull towards presidential concentration of power, single party monopoly of power, the shadow of the military on the political process with a serious risk of military intervention, and existence of ...... - The Huda Barkhad Republic (former Somaliland) – Holidays Destination for Monica Lewinsky? By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Huda Barkhad, the Somaliland tyrnat's wife, a cetaceous of 300 kilos, eating daily caviar imported through Egypt, at the moment the local population is starving, is the real ruler of the secessionist pseudo-state Somaliland. - South Africa has failed the dream of Africans By : Barrack Muluka
Ultimately, present day South Africa risks going down in history as the country that lost the opportunity to lead. Xenophobic South Africa stands where racist South Africa once stood. The politics pulsate with curious court cases in high places. An explosive election lies in wait, next year. - Oromo Kushitic Continuity - Waaqeffannaa, Ancient Egyptian and Kushitic Religions By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The divine blessing of the Oromo Law, as stipulated within the context of Gadaa system, places the system within the same context as the Ancient Egyptian and Kushitic Ethiopian systems of Law. - Frantz Fanon's thesis of violence: What relevance for modern Africa? By : Tongkeh Joseph
Frantz Fanon was one of the leading theorists in analyzing the class struggle in Africa. Fanon advocated violence against the colonial system and also against the agents of neo-colonialism - the compradorbourgeos and the lumpenproletariat of the Third World. Half a century after Fanon's death, is his theory still relevant? This article attempts an answer to this question. - Somaliland: A Shipwreck Derided by All Somalis By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
For all those who are not acquainted with Horn of Africa politics, Mr. Jama Mohamed Ghalib’s text is a real Guide in the Shipwreck Somaliland. When the pseudo-constitution of a bogus-country is based on the twin pillars of Lawlessness and Iniquity, the expiry date falls just yesterday. - Double standards on nuclear weapons could be disastrous By : Ali A. Mazrui
Nuclear weapons are symbols of military strength. Until 1998, these weapons were a monopoly of the already politically powerful five permanent members of the UN Security Council. Those who are outgunned are sometimes forced to resort to terrorist tactics. - True African leaders must speak out By : Barrack Muluka
What is the interplay between leadership, the law and the triumph of human dignity over tyranny? Tyranny has often found perfect companionship with what has been mistaken for law. For that which we call law, seldom goes beyond tyrannical 'customs' and 'conventions' within given communities. Dominant groups – usually a powerful and super-rich minority, have put them in place. - Why Somaliland is not Viable, and Will Not Exist for Long By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Somaliland is a simulacrum of state. - Somaliland - the Clowns of the Lost Recognition, and their End By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The heinous and rancorous Abyssinian pseudo-friends of Somaliland turned thus their Hargeysa lackeys against all the other Somalis; at the same time, they directed them against their own territory’s inhabitants, and their own tribe’s members. The Isaaq Somalis may certainly have rightful complaints to discuss with other Somalis, but they never ceased to be genuine Somalis. - Africa -- Continent's tragedies feed China's boom time By : Okech Kendo
The rejection of a shipment of weapons to Zimbabwe three weeks ago confirms China's race to catch up in exploiting Africa's potential. The Asian giant wants oil, gas, copper, iron, fish and timber. And it is sometimes ready to trade these with arms. - The Heretic Abyssinian Monophysitic Church By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The focus here is for Oromos, Ogadenis, Sidamas, Afars and many others to learn the historical truth about the Tewahedo (Monophysitic) heresy that shamefully the Neo Nazi Abyssinians dare describe as ‘Orthodox Christianity’. - Ancient Egyptian and Kushitic Religions and Waaqeffannaa Oromo Religion By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
In fact, the enemy of Gadaa as system is one: Freemasonry. - India rediscovers Africa, joins China in a hot race By : Tongkeh Joseph
The India-Africa forum of April 2008 represents the latest event in a busy calendar of activities making Africa's relations with the outside world in the form of conference diplomacy. This article analyses the impact of this growing India-Africa cooperation and its effects on power relations. - Somaliland in Chaos: Somalia’s Most Unsafe Spot By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The disintegration of Somaliland will contribute to Somalia’s reunification and to the definite destruction of the Abyssinian colonial state, which is hated by more than 82% of its oppressed and terrorized populations. The days of Riyale are numbered. - Somaliland’s Somalis in Fervent Support of the ONLF and the Ogadenis By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Somaliland is a bogus-nation machinated by the terrorist Neo-Nazi Abyssinian state in order to perpetuate the Abyssinian racist discrimination in the illegally occupied Ogaden, and at the same time facilitate the evil plans of the barbaric Amhara and Tigray Abyssinian administration to destroy the highly civilized and rich in natural resources Somalia. - Aime emphasised Africa's dignity By : Ali A. Mazrui
Poet Aime Cesaire of Martinique passed away last week. He was an iconic co-founder of Black consciousness, long before Steve Biko. Surprisingly, of all the non-French speaking African heads of state, only South Africa's Thabo Mbeki sent a message of condolences to the Cesaire family. - Reject the Fake-Ethiopian Myth of Somalia's Failure! By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, China, India, Rome, the Islamic Caliphate, France, England, Russia, Germany, Spain and Italy were engulfed in different moments of their history in far longer periods of civil war. And we will forget all this in order to shamefully and idiotically believe that Somalia ‘failed’? Only at the end of the existence of a historical nation we can say whether it failed or not. And even this is highly questionable. - 4000 Years of Illustrious History of Somalia and a Somali Renegade By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
To carry out the disreputable work demanded by his Abyssinian boss, Mr. Sabeyse insults the name of his own country! What a brilliant achievement! And what an inane exploit! Mr. Sabeyse forgets that what is important in (the temporary state of) Somaliland’s name is Somalia itself. - Somalia, Renegade Somaliland, and the Abyssinian Fear of Egypt By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
If Mr. Sabeyse wants, we can expand in this regard, making extensive comparisons between Italy and Somalia. The differences between Napoli and Milano are far greater than the dissimilarities between Mogadishu and Hargeysa. And Palermo is more unrelated to Venice than Jigjiga is irrelevant to Garowe. In fact, Somali homogeneity is undisputed and unmatched – particularly if we compare the Horn of Africa country with disparate and incongruent Abyssinia. - Futureless Somaliland, Somalia, Abyssinia, and Egypt By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Finally, we have to admit that Somalia lost a war against a Nuclear Superpower and its satellites. This is the only truth. It is disreputable for a Somali not to say it loudly, and not to be proud for having fought against the Soviet Union itself. - Nile Politics, Egypt, Sudan, Abyssinia, and the Horn of Africa By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The Nile Water Agreement is an old document; there is no doubt. Unless trust prevails among the Nile riparian states, no new agreement can be reached. And who can trust the tyrannical despots, the butchers of the Tigrays and the Amharas? - The Nile, Egypt, Abyssinia, Somalia, and Somaliland By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Either Egypt had a positive or negative stance towards Somaliland, nothing would change in Egypt’s Nile policy. Recognition of Somaliland or isolation of Hargeysa are two issues that do not influence the sphere of Nile politics at all. The approach does not even reflect Abyssinian viewpoints; it only highlights assumptions believed by the few isolated guys at Hargeysa that Somaliland can possibly influence African politics. It is an aberration. - Sifting the good from the bad: Sino African relations, a balance sheet By : Tongkeh Joseph
This articles examines the contemporary debate about Sino-African relations.
It discusses the arguments in support and those against this friendship. The main contention of this article is however that the ultimate choice remains with African leaders as they will be judged by history and posterity. - ONLF, the African Fighters for Ogaden’s Liberation and Democracy By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The longer Jendayi Frazer stays in her position the better for China’s interests in Africa; this situation, at the time of the Lhasa insurgence, must take a short end. - Asafa Dibaba and Oromo Education, from Theory to Practice By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
With pioneering dissertations like this, Mr. Dibaba contributes greatly to the development of a genuine Oromo systematization of modern educational approaches in view of the formation of an African Pedagogical Science. - A Kushitic Oromo Approach to Education and Modern Pedagogical Theories By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Mr. Dibaba examines to what extent is the ‘moral’ education a mere indoctrination, and whether moral ‘contents’ – in the form of moral principles – should be given a priority over real knowledge. Asafa Dibaba’s criticism of the modern Western educational approaches and practices reflects the tarditional Oromo Weltanschauung, and brings forth the establishment of a genuinely African Pedagogical Science. - Migration: The African thorn in European flesh By : Tongkeh Joseph
This article examines the root causes of Afro-European migration. It explores the historical background of African poverty which has triggered an unprecedented wave of migration in the continent. It also examines the migratory pattern and reaction of the EU. This article highlights the thesis that migration from Africa can only see and end when the decaying situation in the continent is arrested. - Theoretical Foundations of Oromo Education and Moral Order By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Asafa Dibaba’s criticism of the modern Western educational approaches and practices consists in a genuine introduction into an African Pedagogical Science. - Africa 2008, the Darkest Part of the Night By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Mr. Metho rightfully denounces the postcolonial realities of Africa; he says: ‘Africa must move away from the politicization of ethnicity’. What else can describe better the Amhara and Tigray Abyssinian colonial attitude of forging a fake national creature, fallaciously baptized ‘Ethiopia’, around the ominous axis of the Amharization of the subjugated and tyrannized nations? Of their ethnic group they attempted to make a political force at the detriment of all the nations they invaded. - East Africa, from Tyranny to Liberation or Death By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The Struggle for National Liberation should then become a top moral engagement, a commitment to moral principles, a pledge for genuine moral values. All the liberation fronts and organizations, movements and associations should realize this reality and identify their effort as a Moral Issue. Only then, the faraway illusion of independence and justice will be a dream come true. - West's patronising a threat to sovereignty By : Abdulahi Ahmednassir
Many countries in Africa have lost their independence on even mundane issues and have acceded huge chunks of their sovereignties to these power blocks. The daily activities of the state in this region of Africa are literally micro-managed by either America or the EU with the governments of the countries providing a meek semblance of authority. - Caught in the crossfire: Africa in the oil battle between the great powers By : Tongkeh Joseph
Africa's oil and mineral wealth once again bring it to the center of great power concern. The US, China, and EU are embarking on a new scramble for Africa to satisfy their oil and energy needs. This concern for Africa is dictated by events in the international scene: the rise of terrorism targetting American interesrs worldwide, instability in the Middle East, the growth of anti-American sentiments in South America and the rise of China. Based on these developments, each power looks to Africa. - Unity and Peace in Somalia: A Task for the Somali Youth By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The lucidity of the Somali youth’s perception of the present critical situation of the Great Nation of the Horn of Africa, combined with fair judgment, is today the Somalis’ greatest assets. That’s why I believe the sooner the Somali youth comes to the forefront of the struggle for Union and Peace the best for Somalia will be. - Africa has a queer way of selecting its leaders By : Martin Mwangi
Zuma's elevation to the chairmanship of the ANC puts him at the most favourable position to rise to the helm as the President of South Africa in 2009. This makes me marvel at the rationale Africans use when appointing their leaders. Presently, the US is caught up in the political scrutiny of their presidential aspirants. Not only are they revisiting their past record as leaders, their contribution to society and their global policies, but also their past, long before ..... - Which prince charming will revive democracy in Africa? By : Ali A. Mazrui
In the words of Irish philosopher, Edmund Burke’s words: "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." Who killed democracy in Africa? This is a question I ask myself often. A string of suspects have merged from history. Let me personify four forces at work. - The revolutionary, reverend and global Africa By : Ali A. Mazrui
Walter Rodney personified the concept of 'Global Africa' which embraces the people of Africa and those of African descent, who are scattered all over the world. When he was in Africa, Rodney knew when to forget that he was Guyanese and in Guyana he knew when to forget that he was an African. Rodney called upon Africa to re-Africanise itself, but called upon Guyanese to fall short of being either too African or too Indian. - 2007 ends in Somalia By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The outgoing year, ashamed because of the evident failure of the human societies and states to be human and thus contribute to resolving dramas as in Darfur, Ogaden, Somalia, Tibet, Mesopotamia (Iraq) and elsewhere, offers an opportunity of reconsideration and reassessment. - The Maakhir State of Somalia – An insightful By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
A new state was formed last July in the Somali North, spanning in the Sanaag region between Somaliland (in the West) and Puntland (in the East). With the present article, we intend to focus on the structures set up, and the division of powers into Executive, Legislative and Judiciary within the new state that promises to contribute to Somalia’s re-unification, and to local development. - Sheikhnur Ali – A Young Somali Thinker's Viewpoint on Somalia By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
An interview with Sheikhnur Ali, a young US - Somali student and free thinker. - Lessons on land from Kenya for Zimbabwe and Britain By : Michael Holman
The ghost of the late Ian Smith will surely have been haunting the European Union summit on Africa which ends in Lisbon today (Sunday), as surely as the physical presence of Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s ageing dictator, will dominate the coverage of the proceedings. One can hear white Rhodesia’s leader now, castigating the man he holds responsible for the devastated country, and saying to anyone who will listen: "I told you so." - Ian Smith's defiance was a symbol of bigger reality By : James N. Kariuki
Smith's illusion of 'no-black-rule in a thousand years' was sheer madness. In one decade alone since Ghana's independence in 1957, virtually all Black Africa had attained independence. The 'winds of change' had indeed swept across the continent, but the white supremacists of Southern Africa remained hypnotised by a notion of a buffer African Mason-Dixon Line along Angola, Mozambique and Southern Rhodesia. - Somalis appeal to Turkey and Egypt to save Somalia By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Abdillahi Ahmed, Vice President of the World Somali Congress: I am appealing to the governments of our historical allies, Turkey and Egypt, who used to stand by our side in times like this to support the Somali people. - World Somali Congress Vice-President Abdillahi Ahmed: No to premeditated destruction of Somalia By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The second part of the interview with Mr. Abdillahi Ahmed, Vice President of the World Somali Congress - Peace and Unity in Somalia – One Way Ticket to Africa's Future By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
There are many critical dimensions of the Horn of Africa problem that unfortunately are totally ignored among Western readers. That is why we decided to start our Horn of Africa interviews with the World Somali Congress, and their Vice President, Mr. Abdillahi Ahmed. - Africa needs to bridge the technological gap to compete By : Ali A. Mazrui
Big powers seek to monopolise certain areas of technology. When I urged Africa to go nuclear in 1979, there was no physical threat from the United States to stop such undertaking. And so apartheid South Africa could manufacture nuclear devices, with the help of Israel, without being threatened by the United States. - Who Needs the Commonwealth? By : Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem
Although British hypocrisy does not mean that President Mugabe is right to be beating up his opponents and muscling the media, it gives his apologists ammunition to clobber opponents as agents of British colonialism and makes it even more difficult for Africans and African leaders in particular to be openly too critical of Uncle Bob and the excesses of his regime. - Factors that make Nigeria and SA stand out in Africa By : Ali A. Mazrui
Half a century separated the formal independence of South Africa in 1910 and the formal independence of Nigeria in 1960. The two countries have since become the giants of Africa. Nigeria excels in human resources. It has the largest population in Africa. South Africa excels in mineral and material resources. But what other factors distinguish the most influential African countries? - African Diaspora's potential untapped By : James N. Kariuki
Despite these positive developments, ties with the Diaspora are still embryonic. It remains a fact that the full import of the African Diaspora for Africa remains grossly unexplored; it is a mine that calls for extraction for the benefit of both parties. - Religion has shaped politics in SA and Nigeria By : Ali A. Mazrui
A major contrast between Nigeria and South Africa is the role of religion in their respective politics. The era of apartheid in South Africa was also the era of a de facto theocracy. In Nigeria, the Abrahamic religions have not only changed indigenous culture; they, in turn, have been modified by ancestral Nigerian traditions. While South Africa has become a paragon of westernisation, Nigeria continues to be a paradigm of indigenisation. - Monarchical leadership now emerging in Africa By : Ali A. Mazrui
Reconciliation leaders seek compromise and consensus from disparate points of views. South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation strategy found a worthy leader in Bishop Desmond Tutu. Also obvious, as a continuing tradition from pre-colonial times, was an older version of the monarchical tendency. Even African societies, which were not themselves monarchical were influenced by the royal paradigm. - Diaspora Africans need decolonisation of mind By : James N. Kariuki
A significant aspect of the 'enslavement process' was to mis-educate the Diasporans about Africans, and Continental Africans about those in the Diaspora. This stubborn barrier still exists within the Global African community and needs to be reversed by appropriate education. - Are Africans less intelligent? By : Kap-kirwok Jason
Why are black Africans today seen by many, including Africans themselves, as the most wretched people on earth? Are black Africans less intelligent than, say, white people? This ugly question has recently been forced to the fore by none other than James Watson, he who won a Nobel Prize for his part in the unraveling of DNA. - What globalisation means for Africa By : Ali A. Mazrui
In recent history, Africa has been preoccupied with four goals–liberation, development, democracy and Pan-Africanism. All these aspects of history need to be viewed in context of globalisation. What, for example, is the impact of globalisation on relations between Africans and African-Americans? Is globalisation bringing them closer together or is it pulling them farther apart? - Leaders should emulate Chissano By : Ernest Mpinganjira
Nearly three years since former President Joachim Albert Chissano transferred power to his successor Fernando Guebuza, he was last week honoured for role in anchoring Mozambique on the road to a modern economy. For his outstanding role in instituting good governance, he was on Monday voted winner of the inaugural Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. - Protect Africa From Technological Vandalism By : Calestous Juma
African countries should adopt laws that protect the region's research efforts against technological vandalism. In the final analysis, Africa's fate lies in its ability to take advantage of emerging technologies to meet its economic goals. It is the duty of the various arms of government to guard against technological vandalism. - Debt Relief or Treasonable Scam? By : Chinweizu
Some press reports say that Nigeria borrowed $17bn; has already paid back $22bn, and is said to still owe $36bn. If these are the actual figures, may I observe that, as the real debt has been paid off with some interest, this alleged debt of $36bn is book-keeping debt, i.e. virtual debt, very much like the book-keeping subsidy or virtual subsidy which the IMF & Co insisted had to be abolished. By the example of that doctrine, this virtual debt should be simply extinguished, shouldn't it? - Horn of Africa and Forgery, from Kebra Negast to Mammo Muchie By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
In the present article, we will continue uncovering the fraudulent presentation of Eastern African History by Mammo Muchie in his article’s last parts. We will thus demonstrate the treacherous, totalitarian and inhuman character of the plan for a larger Coptic Republic of Ethiopia, and the criminal intentions of those who propagate it. - Get Africa's history out of explorers' diaries By : John Mulaa
Perhaps Paul Theroux in his review of the title in the New York Times makes the more general summative point about visitors with attitude to Africa. "A common denominator in this assortment of foreign visitors is the wish to transform themselves while claiming they want to change Africa." This, Africa can do little about. What it its scholars and educators can and should do, is assiduously to revisit what is being passed as truth about the continent's past. - Africa should purge its past By : James N. Kariuki
The first critical step towards genuine reparations is fundamental rehabilitation of the Africans' 'attitude of mind'. Slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism have left deep scars in our psyche: a sense of inferiority complex, self-contempt and worshiping things Western. We are part of what Caribbean writer, Frantz Fanon, describes in his book Black Skin, White Masks. - Horn of Africa History, Colonial Plans, and the Outrageous Forger Mammo Muchie – Part V By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The Horn of Africa Conference contributes to the colonial plans aiming at the formation of a vast tyrannical, colonial empire spanning from Egypt’s southern border to the coast of Kenya, named ‘Coptic Republic of Ethiopia’.
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