Time to have one African Citizenship Passport Some Civil Society attending the ongoing AU Summit in Accra, have called on African leaders and Governments to adopt one citizenship passport. This they said would improve the traveling heckling, intimidations and obstacles that are meted on people traveling from one African country […]
Who is playing havoc with the Zimbabwe dollar?
Zudha in the Rhodesian days was corrupted Shona for South African coins. Because they were useless to Zimbabweans, the word was transformed to mean anything useless including people. It was derived from the Afrikaans words Suid Afrika (South Africa). But South Africans coins, which people in Rhodesia used to throw away, have become gold. The […]
That place called Nollywood
As I watched ‘Hotel Rwanda’ a few days ago, I saw Sophie Okonedo’s tears fall and thought of how I’d like to dry them. ‘Beautiful woman, superb acting’, were the thoughts that crossed my mind about this lady with a Nigerian name but who was raised in Britain. After the movie and as I contemplated […]
East of Tragedy
The intimate portrait of a New Orleans East couple who are in the midst of rebuilding their home and recovering the pieces of a joyful life twenty months after the levees broke. Beatrice Haynes anxiously walked up to the single story home she and her husband Milton, both 48, have owned in New Orleans East […]
Is Organic Eating a healthier way to live
Is organic eating the better way to a healthy lifestyle? The food that’s eaten today is loaded with chemicals and artificial flavoring, preservatives, and coloring. Food that was made 25 or more years ago didn’t have a lot of ingredients and artificial coloring and preservatives. What would the world be like without fast food restaurants […]
Investor Liquidates Conscience
NEW YORK, NY — In an unprecedented move, a Wall Street trader today liquidated his conscience in order to settle its debts with his ego, a spokesman for the trader said. The trader, Franc DeFraud, made the move shortly after the market opened. The sell is expected to greatly increase DeFraud’s disposable income and ego. […]