Tag Archives: African people
Dear All, You are cordially invited to attend a Conference Discussion Sharing Forum about “Land Grabbing in Africa” with its devastating catastrophic effects it puts on the People of Africa which in effect is causing harm and is hindering sustainable … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Letters & Interviews, South Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged African people, Congo, Ethiopia, Human rights, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Ivory Coast, Land grabbing, Pan-Africanism
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Yesterday I didn’t really post any new articles because I spent the whole day reading up on current affairs in the African economic scene. I read up on a lot of recent, and past, news about the Chinese, and other … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Op-ed, Somali, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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Tagged African people, Business, China, Chinese, Chinese language, Economic growth, Indepth Africa Magazine, Natural resource
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what does it hold? A lot of issues have been raised on the rise of the middle class in Africa and the change that these classes of people can actually cause towards the economic growth and transformation in Africa. Many … read more »
Posted in Article, Cape Verde, Congo, DR Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Togo, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Abhijit Banerjee, African Development Bank, African people, Economic growth, economics, Esther Duflo, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Middle class
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By Tapiwa Kapurura, zimeye.org This piece is meant to corroborate Professor George Ayittey’s recent contribution on the problems bedeviling Africa. My thesis excavates the point that Africa has everything to re-establish herself as a dignified and self-sustaining continent but has been … read more »
Posted in Article, Burkina Faso, Congo, DR Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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Tagged African Affairs, African people, George Ayittey, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, United States, West, Western world, World Bank
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Spanish authorities on Monday intercepted three inflatable boats packed with a total of 27 illegal immigrants, including two women, which were trying to make landfall on Spain’s southern shore, the country’s maritime rescue services said. The inflatable boats were stopped … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somali, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged African people, Boat, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Morocco, spain, Strait of Gibraltar, sub-Saharan Africa, Tarifa
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By; Kiflu Hussain Just yesterday, when I was provoked to write my latest piece “Getting Our Perspective Right on Our Fellow Africans,” I quoted extensively from a great work by a great genius of Africa, Chinua Achebe. At the time, … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ethiopia, Kiflu Hussain, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Achebe, African people, CHINUA ACHEBE, Ethiopia, Fellow, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Scholarly method, Things Fall Apart
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By Messay Kebede What is wrong with Africa? Save for a few promising exceptions, why has Africa become the land where dictatorships, disrespect for elementary human rights, economic mismanagement, corruption, nepotism, ethnic confrontations, etc., proliferate and endure? This total and … read more »
Posted in Article, DR Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Advocacy Organizations, African people, Christianity, Human rights, Human Rights and Liberties, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, West, Western world
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The paradigm shift Africans must make Let us rather spend our energy and time organizing ourselves across the borders so that we can create a new African Democratic Movement that creates momentum towards change. Last week I wrote on the … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
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Tagged African people, Angola, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kwame Nkrumah, New African, South Africa, White Africans of European ancestry, Zimbabwe
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By: Farai Mamina When it was transformed from Organisation of African Unity (OAU) to African Union (AU), there was sensational hope for pragmatism on the continent. For the umpteenth time, heads of African states and government are meeting in Addis … read more »
Posted in African Union (AU), Analysis, Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Togo, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Addis Ababa, African people, African Union, China, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, Organisation of African Unity, Robert Mugabe
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Few hours ago, the 29th Africa Cup of Nations got underway when the host nation, South Africa, kicked off against Cape Verde, the island nation making their first appearance in the continental championship. Just as other confederation’s championships reflect their … read more »
Posted in 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, Angola, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Soccer, South Africa, Sports, Togo, Zambia
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Tagged 2013 afcon fixtures, 2013 afcon tickets, 2013 Africa Nations Cup, afcon fixtures, afcon tickets african nations, africa cup 2013, Africa Nations Cup, african cup, African Nations Cup, African people, Cape Verde, Continental championship, cup of nations, Indepth Africa Magazine, Island country, nations cup 2013, South Africa
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By Belayneh Abate The massacre of elementary school children in the United States of America on December 14, 2012 is one of the horrifying news I ever heard in my life. We adults kill each other because we are filled … read more »
Posted in Article, Belayneh Abate, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Zimbabwe
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Tagged African people, George Ayittey, Hunger Project, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, sub-Saharan Africa, Susan Rice, United States, Western world
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Don’t blame me, I didn’t vote for Obama President Obama must change the policy of looking at Africans as expandable for the adventure of his Administration’s officials-bandaged with foreign aid to dictators. His Administration policy must come to its senses … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, West Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged African people, Barack Obama, Ethiopia, ethiopian news, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, obama, United Nation, United States, Washington DC
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November 8, 2012 by benim
Motsoko Pheko ‘To restore Afrikan power, Africans must reassert themselves. We have riches of all kinds. We must control our raw materials. We must acquire technology to process these raw materials in Africa and export them as finished goods. We … read more »
Premier tells cabinet that 54 migrants crossed border in October and were all taken into custody- a steep decline from the some 2,000 migrants who came through monthly in mid-2012. Israel has stopped the unapproved influx of African migrants across … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged African people, Benjamin Netanyahu, Egypt, Eritrea, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Sinai Peninsula, South Sudan, Sudan
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By Remember P.D Miamingi There are disturbing signs of anti-‘foreigners’ sentiments littered across South Sudan:from the unfriendly receptions fellow Africans from neighboring countries experience at our different border posts, to some serious allegations of exploitation and abuse in Juba. It … read more »
Posted in Article, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged African people, Arabs, Desmond Tutu, IndepthAfrica, John Garang, Juba, Martin Luther King, SouthSudan, Sudan
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Chika Ezeanya Transparency International has defined corruption as ‘the abuse of power for private gains’. Corruption can occur in several forms, but this paper focuses on what Hellman and Jones call ‘administrative corruption’, or the use of ‘private payments to … read more »
Israel is refusing to allow entry to a small group of African migrants huddled at a desert border fence with Egypt, officials said Wednesday, underscoring a toughened entry policy. The Eritrean group appeared to number a dozen, including two women … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, News, Spotlight
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Tagged African people, Egypt, Eli Yishai, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, Ran Cohen, Sudan, tel aviv
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It isn’t pretty. Israel did what it could to keep the photographers away. It doesn’t play well against the history of Jews having to move from place to place, and encountering borders closed against them. Jewish officials have problems with … read more »
Nigeria have won their way into a second successive FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup semi-final with a hard-fought 1-0 extra-time victory over a resilient Mexico in Tokyo. Nigeria, beaten finalists in Germany two years ago, were dominant throughout the first … read more »
Posted in News, Soccer, Sports
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Tagged African people, Cecilia Santiago, FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, Germany, IndepthAfrica, Mexico, Nigeria, Oparanozie, Tokyo
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David Smith,The Observer Herman Chinery-Hesse left America to return to his parents’ country with only a computer and some big ideas… He was born in Ireland, studied in America and worked in Britain. But when Ghanaian Herman Chinery-Hesse decided to … read more »
Posted in Ghana, News, Special Reports
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Tagged Accra, afria travel, Africa news, African people, East Africa, Ghana, Herman Chinery-Hesse, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, map africa, map of africa, news, news in africa, Nigeria, North Africa, South Africa, travel to africa, United States, West Africa, Zimbabwe
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An attacker has stabbed three Eritrean men in a Tel Aviv video store in what police said they were initially treating as a racist attack. “All three people that were stabbed were taken to hospital with light to moderate injuries,” … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, News, Spotlight
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Tagged afria travel, Africa news, African people, Agence France-Presse, East Africa, Eritrea, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, Israel, map africa, map of africa, Micky Rosenfeld, news, news in africa, North Africa, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, tel aviv, travel to africa, West Africa
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Africans do not like to listen to their own or pay them either. Were what well educated, capable, passionate and gifted Africans have to offer come from some ‘lighter’ skin fraudsters in the color of an European, Indian, Lebanese, Pakistani, … read more »
Posted in Columnist, News, OKPA
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Tagged Africa Countries, africa facts, africa for kids, africa karl wolf, africa lyrics, africa news today, africa song, africa toto, african food, African History, African people, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, India, Lebanon, Nigeria, Pakistan, Pakistani, reuters africa news, South Africa
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IN June 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a speech in Zambia warning of a “new colonialism” threatening the African continent. “We saw that during colonial times, it is easy to come in, take out natural resources, pay … read more »
Posted in Article, Pan African News
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Tagged afria travel, Africa news, africa news today, African news, African people, Andrew Rosenthal, BBC Africa, bbc africa news, China, Dambisa Moyo, East Africa, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, latest africa news, map africa, map of africa, news, news 24, news in africa, North Africa, Pew Research Center, South Africa, south african news, travel to africa, United States, West Africa
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By Desné Masie The 2008 Financial crisis and the attendant Eurozone crisis are reshaping the future of global finance. But what are the implications of this for Africans? Why have financial institutions rushed to the aid of Greece, yet African … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Malawi, News
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Tagged Africa news, African Development Bank, African news, African people, Eurozone, Greece, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, International Monetary Fund, Late-2000s financial crisis, Malawi
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Address at AZAPO commemoration of Africa Liberation Day, Pimville Community Hall Soweto, 26 May 2012 Motsoko Pheko Programme Director, Comrades, Brothers and Sisters, The effects of colonialism past and present are visible all over Africa. It is not an overstatement … read more »
A leading Member of the Convention People’s Party Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa has asked African Leaders to review their leadership styles as the Continent celebrates African Union Day. Friday May 25 is the 49th Anniversary of the AU which is … read more »
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. For the primitivistic African cultural nationalists in the postcolonial era, Busia offers this all-too-pragmatic reality check, as it were: “This is a reminder that cultures are not static. There is no society so custom-bound that … read more »
Posted in Article, News, Pan African News
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Tagged Africa Countries, africa facts, africa for kids, africa karl wolf, africa lyrics, africa song, africa toto, African, african food, African people, Ali Mazrui, Culture of Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Pan-Africanism
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The Traditional Courts Bill is meant to replace the Black Administration Act of 1927 with a law that is constitutional. Instead, if passed, it will in effect strip between 17 million and 21 million people living in rural South Africa … read more »
Posted in Article, News, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged afria travel, African people, Bantustan, City Press, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, Law, Mamphela Ramphele, Mandla Mandela, map africa, map of africa, news, South Africa, Traditional Courts Bill, travel to africa
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As Africa continues its strong economic growth, a growing number of German companies are looking at investing in the continent amid growing international competition for Africa’s resources and markets. German firms are increasingly doing business in Africa. The German-African Business … read more »
Posted in Business, Economy, News
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Tagged afria travel, African people, China, Germany, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, map africa, map of africa, news, Nigeria, Siemens, South Africa, ThyssenKrupp, travel to africa
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Rather than tell me of African independence, Tell me of her DECOLONIZATION! rather than tell me to celebrate some independence, Rather tell me when we would celebrate her DECOLONIZATION! We were colonised, right? Yes! That is a fact!And have we … read more »
Posted in Article, Pan African News
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Tagged afria travel, African people, Berlin, Christianity, Colonialism, History, History of Africa, Holocaust, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, map africa, map of africa, news, South Africa, travel to africa
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