A real sense of the ongoing clash between American/Chinese interests can be found in Africa. What's marked African politics in recent years is the growing competitiveness of the far-off Chinese with a seemingly omnipresent US imperialism.
A debate is currently raging among personal consumer electronics companies, Congolese activists, and NGOs over whether an American law can finally bring peace to a mining sector in Africa that has sacrificed so much for wealthier countries in the global north.
If they knew him at all, the world knew Oronto Douglas as the former attorney for the Nigerian writer, playwright and Ogoni human rights activist Ken Saro Wiwa.
There has been growing concern with the activities of Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria and its spillover into northern Cameroon, Niger, and in the Lake Chad area. Yet Boko Haram is not the first militant, anti-establishment Islamic movement in the region.
In one of the most polluted places on earth there’s a resurgence of resistance. - See more at: http://newint.org/features/2014/11/01/oil-niger-delta/#sthash.oEHtnn4P.dpuIn one of the most polluted places on earth there’s a resurgence of resistance.
In one of the most polluted places on earth there’s a resurgence of resistance.
Mazrui’s humanism was based on the dignity of all human beings regardless of race, religion, region or gender. It was a humanism linked to the quest for reparative justice, peace, self-determination, the rights of women, secularism and prosperity for all.
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