If we are going to interfere in the lives of others, a little due diligence is a minimum requirement A week and a half ago, I watched the Kony2012 video. Afterward, I wrote a brief seven-part response, which I posted in sequence on my Twitter account: Teju Cole @tejucole ... Read more...
Get in touch with Drop In The Bucket on Facebook/Twitter and visit their website to learn more and get involved, and please donate if you can. Now, without further ado, stream and download Rich Medina’s Africa In Your Earbuds #14 below! Big up to Underdog for the stellar cover art! TRACKLIST 1. ... Read more...
A new campaign spreading across the Internet says it has one goal in mind: Make Joseph Kony, the Ugandan leader of the violent Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) “famous” so he can be brought to justice The campaign may be working. #StopKony has been trending worldwide on Twitter since ... Read more...
Murder of Gadhafi is next step to wider U.S. wars in Africa The brutal lynching of Moammar Gadhafi, the leader of Libya, is the latest criminal act in NATO's seven-month war of regime change and conquest. Gadhafi died resisting to the very end U.S.-NATO war, as he said he would. He refus... Read more...
Three young Americans traveled to Africa in search of such as story. What they found was a tragedy that disgusted and inspired them. A story where children are weapons and children are the victims. The "Invisible Children: rough cut" film exposes the effects of a 20 year-long war on the children... Read more...
Kampala - THE Budaka district education officer, Wilson Lyadda, has said 80% of parents in the district do not know what happens to their children while at school. He said many parents dump their children in school without bothering to know their academic performance. "Parents only fight hard ... Read more...
At the summit of the African countries which will be held on Thursday in Malobu, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, according to the newspaper, shall adopt a resolution which NATO calls for an urgent cease bombing of Libya. Seven countries in Africa that are trying to mediate in resolving the... Read more...
“Tonight is a particular honor for me because, let’s face it, my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely. My father was a foreign student, born and raised in a small village in Kenya. He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack. His father — my grandfather — was a cook... Read more...