Corruption and Unending Problems in Africa Africa is incontrovertibly blessed with an abundance of natural resources, especially land that is rich in all sorts of imaginable minerals. Hundreds and thousands of fertile tracts that are conducive for agriculture can be found nowhere else on the globe except in most African countries. Had these resources been […]
Al Gore’s Supercharged Live Earth Draws Sting of Rock World
The "Live Aid" brand is back this summer with a former Vice-President. Al Gore, the coolest politicial suit, has the hottest environmental agenda to save the Earth from the global fallout of economic development and is taking it to a television and iPod near you. With his film The Inconvenient Truth – a slide-show lecture […]
Cheyenne – a story from the Great Plain -part 2
The Cheyenne Indians are one of the most notable of the western tribes who inhabited the Great Plains, the open country lying west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains. They were famous among early travelers for chastity of their women and the courage of their warriors, in later years, when everything […]
Africans Should Increase Intra-Trade
Daniel Nana Aforo (Special AU Summit report) The UN Under Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission of Africa, Mr. Abdoulie Janneh, has said if the continent of African want to take advantage of global trade opportunities there is the need to increase intra-African trade. This, he said would […]
Hip Hop apologies
Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur of AllHipHop.com is calling for Hip Hop to apologise to all women especially women of colour for “bold misogyny and rampant sexism” – I would add to that an apology to the LGBT community for rampant homophobia which is conspicuously absent from Creekmur. Creekmur uses the analogy of the US Congress considering […]
“Capitalist Nigger”: The most racist book ever written about the black race, or the most uplifting?
I had just wanted to post this on my blog space at www.dirtyhiphophead.blogspot.com when the thought of putting here struck and sorry I can’t scan the cover of the book so you can see. Let me state this upfront: I have mixed feelings about this book. And I would be inclined to believe that I […]