Freedom on Juneteenth?

Let's be clear. June 19th is not the day America freed their slaves, it is the day America stopped legally enslaving previously free Africans - big difference!

Nevsun Resources enslaved African workers

Nevsun Resources is being accused by former mine workers of "being forced to work 12 hours a day, six days a week, being beaten with sticks, and being bound and left to bake under the hot sun."

Lincoln Wamae builds electric wheelchairs powered by laptop batteries

Brilliant! Kudos to Mr. Wamae of Kenya

Read the story in CTV News

Ethiopia plants 224 million trees in ONE DAY!

Wow! Kudos to Ethiopia

Read the story on CBC News

Zimbabwe politicians are truly disgusting!

"You are a little people, a silly people: Greedy, barbarous and cruel."

... Lawrence of Arabia

Read the story on The Telegraph

Trump is a hypocrite but correct

Wow! It's truly hypocritical of 'colonial' American president Trump to warn African leaders about 'colonial' China but for once, he's correct. Cash-rich China is fond of making generous loans to African countries to build railways that no one uses, highways to nowhere, and shipping ports that no shipper uses. Then, when the African country can't make the payments, China repossess the infrastructure and gets its hands on a few natural resources to boot.

Read the story in the Globe and Mail

Italian geneticists create Frankenstein mosquitoes

"This is a technology where we don't know where it's going to end. We need to stop this right where it is," says Nnimmo Bassey, director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation in Nigeria. "They're trying to use Africa as a big laboratory to test risky technologies."


Read the story HERE

Nevsun Resources fights slavery charge

The Canadian mining company Nevsun Resources has the audacity to claim that African miners have no right to sue the Canadian company for human rights violations (slavery) because it happened in Africa. Shame on Nevsun. Interestingly, the criminal execs at Nevsun recently sold the company to the Chinese, who know a thing or two about human-rights violations.

Read the story HERE

Bill Gates Foundation is experimenting on Africans

Reminds me of the syphilis experiments that the U.S. Public Health Service and Tuskegee University conducted on black males from 1932 to 1972 in Tuskegee, Alabama. A total of 600 impoverished men were injected with live syphilis.... disgraceful!

HAPPY KWANZAA EVERYONE!!

FYI: Kwanzaa is a celebration held in the United States and in other nations of the African diaspora in the Americas and lasts a week. 

The celebration honors African heritage in African-American culture and is observed from December 26 to January 1

"Among the Jacaranda" is a great story by an excellent writer

Just received in the mail a copy of Braz Menezes's new novel Among the Jacaranda. For your own copy, send Braz a DM on his FACEBOOK page.

Killing via remote control

The US government is spending $100 million to build yet another military base in Africa to kill Africans via remote control. That $100 million is enough to provide 12,000 Americans with health care for a year and enough to provide four years free university tuition and living expenses for 1,000 young people.

Read the story in the Business Insider

Lest we forget!

"If it weren't for soldiers there would be no war."

The Queen of Katwe is a lovely movie - check it out

Just saw The Queen of Katwe... lovely movie... check it out at a theatre near you. And congrats to amazing actors Lupina Nyongo, David Oyelowo, and Madina Nalwanga - queenofkatwe. Oh... and kudos to Disney for producing it. Gutsy move.

We're full of cancer, Africa needs scientists, and Black Holes simplified

"Study shows American's bodies are fulled of carcinogens" - Truth-Out

Oh great! It seems as if the average person's body contains more than 400 know carcinogens - courtesy of the soap, plastic containers, air pollution, and the "safe" water we drink. The researchers even found carcinogens in the umbilical cords of yet unborn children.


Letters from Africa: More science and less politics - BBC News

Great letter to the BBC from Ghanaian writer Elizabeth Ohene on the importance of science. Well said Ms. Ohene!


Short answers to questions about black holes - New York Times

And while we're on the topic of science, check Dennis Overbye's great answers to questions submitted to him by New York Times readers.

Africa wallows in poverty while Jacob Zuma buys expensive cars for his four wives

"South Africans are wondering how serious President Jacob Zuma is about austerity after it emerged this week that the state had spent about 8.6m rand ($550,000; £374,000) on new cars for his wives over the past three years.

In response to a parliamentary question from the opposition this week, Police Minister Nathi Nhleko said the police had spent close to $230,000 alone on luxury cars for president Zuma's four wives this year - despite a call for citizens to tighten their belts as South Africa's economy struggles to meet growth targets"

Read this disgusting story on BBC News