Palm oil behind Africa-Europe war
PALM OIL IN THE CENTER OF THE FIRST ECONOMIC WAR BETWEEN AFRICA AND EUROPE by Jean-Paul Pougala ...
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When an African president dies while in office
When Malawian president, Mutharika died on last Thursday, the Malawian public were not told of his sudden death until two days later. Source: iq4news.com ...
Implications for the EU-Africa Relations
Europe and the Changing Global Order: Implications for the EU-Africa Relations ...
Implats strike unearths big S.Africa labour rift
JOHANNESBURG/RUSTENBURG, South Africa, Feb 28 – Behind a violent strike at the world’s largest platinum mine a battle is taking shape: union ties forged in the fight against apartheid are fraying, and a breed of labour leader is emerging who could destabilise industrial relations across South Africa. ...
Kenyatta rises as tribal loyalty trumps ICC charge
GATUNDU, Kenya, Feb 14 – Next door to the mansion where Kenya’s richest man, presidential contender and now war crimes suspect Uhuru Kenyatta grew up near the capital Nairobi, stands Francis Karanja’s mud hut with a tin roof. ...
Geographic map may hide strategy for mental subordination
A- BORN-RENAISSANCE OF INTELLECTUAL DISSENT: the example of Bruno Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was a Dominican priest, professor of philosophy, mathematics, physics. He was accused of heresy by the Roman Catholic Church for having maintained that the universe was infinite and not finite and, as such, the earth was suspended in a vacuum and therefore there ...
INTERVIEW-S. Sudan oil shutdown could fuel inflation, unrest
JUBA, Feb 9 – South Sudan’s shutdown of its oil production could stoke inflation and unrest unless the new nation can find alternative sources of funding to help prop up its currency, a senior finance ministry official said on Thursday. ...
AFRICA MONEY-Zambia’s zero intolerance
JOHANNESBURG, Jan 30 – The ‘sum of zeroes’ game has a new player – Zambia, which has become the latest country to redenominate its currency by lopping off a string of noughts. ...
Why Africans are ashamed of their ancestry’s religious practice
WHY AFRICANS ARE ASHAMED OF THEIR ANCESTRY’S RELIGIOUS PRACTICE Professor Jean-Paul Pougala explains why Africans have abandoned their religious practice in the past to embrace invader’s religions and philosophies. But now they are retaking it. ...
New world order after Ivory Coast and Libya
CASUALTIES OF IVORY COAST AND LYBIA HAVE BROUGHT ABOUT A NEW WORLD ORDER By Jean-Paul Pougala(*) Translated in English by Franclin Foping (Douala Cameroon) In 1945, the United Nations was created in the aftermath of the Second World War. Today a new world order is being established after the heaviest sacrifice of Africa, after the ...