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Backgrounder: Gaddafi
Hadiza Wada, DBA
…August 20, 2011
As the news
about the imminent end of the Gaddafi regime in Libya makes rounds, we bring to
you some background information about the man; Gaddafi [Arabic, Qaddafi]. Libya
has been experiencing a bout of uprising since February 2011, a somewhat
regional uprising sparked largely by youths, which began in Tunisia and has been
sweeping many Arab nations beginning late last year.
Full
Article
The Spirit of Egypt Spoke
Hadiza Wada, DBA
…Feb. 12, 2011
For almost three weeks, the world was gripped with the Egyptian protests, which culminated with the resignation of the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Friday. What many people have been asking as soon as the protesters announced victory Friday, was; now what? Much of the answers may lie in what Egypt has been, and what it would like to become, as envisioned by its teeming young generation. According to authentic demographic figures, about one third of the Egyptian population of 80 million is 14 years and below. And only 4% of its population is above the age of 65 years. Full Article
Backgrounder: Cote d’Ivore
Hadiza Wada, DBA …December 11, 2010
All
three religions (Godly) have strong roots in Africa. They are not imports,
as generally believed. Following historical records closely, they appear to
be offshoots of a continent that has for thousands of years been in a quest
for a sense of higher power (We covered that in our April 3, 2010 edition).
After all, at the very least, they are all regarded even today as “Semitic”
(meaning from mixed dark and light race). Religious quests started thousands
of years ago, along the Nile that natured the first ancient human that
walked the earth, four million years ago. That was how far back the carbon
dating placed the archeological remains of that first humanoid. No
intellectual today worth his professional name will doubt that Africa indeed
is the cradle of mankind.
Full Article
Hadiza Wada, DBA ...April 3, 2010
Africans
on the continent may not be the most pressed to know the dynamics of the
ongoing color war in the world. The colonial experience after all, has been
some half century in the past. Though that should not have made people sit
back, we can generally say that the African struggle for progress and equal
treatment as any other human or nations of this planet has not generally
been effective yet.
But
the African American, who has to some degree made progress in raising his
status from that of less than a human to a full human being at about the
same time as the African struggling to free himself from colonial control,
half a century ago, is still engaged in that struggle today. For that
reason, we will look into what he has discovered. Full
Article
The most potent threat to the
contemporary status quo is image reversal. The world has gotten itself
caught up in a series of habitual ways of doing things politically,
economically, socially and most importantly today, religiously. A cabal of
a few worldly figures have found it expedient to promote certain values in
these spheres to uphold the status quo, where about 5% of the world
population control more than ninety percent of world riches, throwing an
increasingly bigger proportion of world population into financial
difficulties, and more than fifty percent of them in poverty. One of the
weapons, and as we say the most portent of them is the creation and
sustaining of an image that serves their purpose.
Full Article
Talks
by officials of the regional body ECOWAS on Niger Republic during the week
ended in the body imposing a boycott of the leader, and announcing that it
no longer recognizes Tandja’s leadership of the Republic. Had the Nigerien
President honored the original mandate under which he assumed power, he
would have left the office Tuesday, having served two complete terms of five
years each. Meanwhile in a neighboring West African country of Liberia, the
government has instituted a new law that promises to help reverse corruption
in the country. The new law protects citizens and encourages them to
come forward with incidents plus evidences of corruption ...Full
Article
The Disaster Awaiting Africa
World
leaders are meeting next week at Copenhagen to discuss climate change. Have
you ever thought how it will possibly affect us in Africa? Please read my
contribution below which I first published in 2007.
Africa is described by many historians as a passive continent. At least in the last millennium, the continent has been at the receiving end of history. While it has benefited from the values of other civilizations, it has suffered immensely from their atrocities. Slave trade was the most horrendous to remember, when Romans, Arabs and, later, Europeans in collaboration with African leaders freely depleted the continent of millions of its most able manpower. No compensation is contemplated. Then colonialism depleted it of its resources, after subduing any resistance from its sons, sometimes using the most gruesome means. Full Article
The 64th UN General Assembly concluded
Hadiza Wada, DBA ...October 3, 2009
The United Nations President for the 64th session of the assembly, Ali Abdussalam Treki, declared the session closed on Tuesday the 29th day of September. Among the issues that were covered, and were not presented by the voice thus far, include some raised by Egypt as the current chair of the Non-Aligned movement. Egypt as represented by its Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit raised several issues including the need to address the current global climate change, and economic challenges. Mr. Gheit called for some reforms at the world financial institutions IMF and World Bank to give developing countries greater voice and some control over their financial issues. Full Article
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