The second scramble for Africa starts By Julio Godoy Updated May 5, 2009 - 3:45:49 PM The second scramble for Africa starts BERLIN (IPS) - Sub-Saharan African countries have of late become the target of a new form of investment that is strongly reminiscent of colonialism: investors from both industrialized and emerging economies buy or lease large tracts of ...

There was no surprise for what proved to be a resounding victory for Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma and the African National Congress (ANC). Zuma is the come back kid of all time; the man who against all odds came back from political abyss. In 2005 he was sacked as deputy leader of the ANC by then ...

Western media depiction of African affairs -- Part 1 Vincent Magombe Ebere Nzewuji Ben TV Vuyiswa Ngqobongwana.

Walter Tull was born in Folkestone on 28th April 1888. His father was a carpenter from Barbados who had moved to Folkestone and married a local woman. By the age of nine, Walter had lost both his parents, and when he was 10 he and his brother Edward were sent to a Methodist orphanage in ...

Vogue’s Beyonce Cover, Racist? Posted by: Annika Harris | Filed in: News & Culture 5:30PM, Tuesday March 17th 2009 Comments (13) Some folks have gotten their panties in a bunch over Beyonce’s cover for the “Shape Issue” of Vogue. Beyonce is one of only five black women to grace the cover of Vogue ...

I'm browsing the shelves of my office bookshelf. This is, in fact, the philosophy section at the local library, but i'm sure that many of the web community out there will be familiar with this analogy. I'm also very excited at the impending Summer launch of the BBake entertainment service. BBake at www.bbake.com will allow you to ...

By SARAH MOORE April, 19, 2009 A free African-American in 1836 rendered "valuable assistance" to the Texas Army during the Texas Revolution, according to a historical marker on his grave near Nacogdoches. Records show that William E. Goyens and many others -slaves and freemen and indentured servants - all were involved in the revolution 173 years ago. But in ...