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Burkina Faso’s Ex-President Compaoré Charged in 1987 Killing of Predecessor Thomas Sankara Subscribe Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/africa/202104131082621399-burkina-fasos-ex-president-compaor-charged-in-1987-killing-of-predecessor-thomas-sankara/ Before his 1987 killing, Burkinabe President Thomas Sankara predicted his defiance of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), debts to which he encouraged African nations to refuse to pay, would get him killed. Blaise Compaoré, the o...

Is China a land of peace contented with its status? Or is it arrogantly determined to be the next superpower?

The Nigeria Flag: SHUTTERSTOCK There is nowhere in the world where the white man accepts domination from another white man in perpetuity. The communists tried dividing society into Brother Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), all collapsed while the two capitalists and proletarians, deluding themselves that they’ve killed ethnicity. What followed: the communist edifices in Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Big Germanys that are of the same ethnic origin were reunited. Such is the power of...

Rebuilding Africa’s Leadership Cadre, By Uddin Ifeanyi As with Mr. Magufuli, the current cohort is not just fit for purpose. They are decidedly a threat to the continent’s near-term prospects. ADVERTISEMENT …while all of these may be sufficient for the continent’s re-engagement with a rapidly-changing world, a necessary condition is that it conducts a root-and-branch review of its leaders. As with Mr. Magufuli, the current cohort is not just fit for purpose. They are decidedly a threat ...

Guardian, January 9, 2021. The FBI launched a massive manhunt for these white supremacists. There have been 275 arrests, and severaloutletshavewritten about who the rioters were, but no one has looked into them more carefully than staff at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University (GWU). Last week, it issued a report called “This is Our House!” which looks into 257 people who have been arrested and indicted. The report sorts the 257 defendants into three groups: “militant n...

By Leonard Khafafa | March 3rd 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 When Captain Thomas Sankara came into power, he changed the name of his country from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, literally, “The land of the upright men.” Among other memorable things he did was to decree that all government officials would have to make do with the most basic means of transportation. Leading by example, he discarded the ostentatious motorcades so beloved by African presidents and was often seen riding a bicycle to...

Download Article All great powers have a deeply ingrained self-perception shaped by historical experience, geography, culture, beliefs, and myths. Many Chinese today yearn to recover the greatness of a time when they ruled unchallenged at the pinnacle of their civilization, before “the century of humiliation.” Russians are nostalgic for Soviet days, when they were the other superpower and ruled from Poland to Vladivostok. Henry Kissinger once observed that Iranian leaders ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 14 February 2021 Jatropha multifida belongs to the family Euphorbiaceae. It is a shrub growing up to 20ft. high with stout glabrous branches. The leaves are segmented or lobed numbering about 12. It has coral-red flowers and the seed is a nut. I find the Yoruba name of this plant so amusing. The flower is a beauty to behold especially if you find the plant in clusters. It is commonly called African toothpaste. The Yoruba call it Ogegé (ddm). Many things ha...

The Many Masks of Max Mirebelais Roberto Bolaños Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of American writers who flirted with or espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is a tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition. The novel is composed of short biographies, including descriptions of the writers works. All of the writers are imaginary, although they are all carefully and credibly situated in real ...

A People, United: Conversations On Western Sahara, By Owei Lakemfa Salem wrapped up with his submission that Nigeria as an African leader must play its role to “defend the shared principles of Africa”. ADVERTISEMENT Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Western Sahara, has been engaged in a freedom struggle with Morocco “This Trump declaration was part of a deal between Morocco and Israel for the former to recognise Israel and its illegal occupation of Palestinian lands in return for r...