Recreating the Holocaust in their own image, By Owei Lakemfa
Islreali soldiers and a Palestinian boy during clashes in Hebron.Picture credit: Mussa Qawasma/Reuters. The civilised world knows that the Palestine ...
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Desmond Tutu: High priest of Ubuntu, true humanism, quits the stage, By Toyin Falola
Desmond Tutu,the South African Anglican reverend, champion of the communalistic humanist cause of Ubuntu, and hardcore lover of peace and ...
A life of laughter and commitment ends as Tutu departs, By Owei Lakemfa
Tutu was all of laughter, and even when those he spoke to did not seem to see the joke he ...
OBITUARY: Desmond Tutu: A Life of Tenacity, Constancy and Courage
Desmond Tutu's advocacy ranged widely, beginning with appeals for sanctions against apartheid and continuing with campaigns against homophobia, for gender ...
F.W de Klerk: Earning greateness by turning Africa away from disaster, By Babafemi A. Badejo
FW De Klerk (Photo Credit: Nobel Peace Price) This is to remind us that Africa and humanity lost one of ...
Jarrar and Meng: Unrelenting women walk out of jail, By Owei Lakemfa
Khalida Jarrar. Picture credit: Workers World. Jarrar and Meng have come to symbolise the resistance of their various countries against ...
America’s sorry for Cuba, but won’t get off its neck, By Owei Lakemfa
If the people of Cuba are threatened, we Africans have the moral duty to race to their aid. Or what ...
South African woman jailed three years for racist rant
Previously people convicted of the same crime have been fined.
Apartheid struggle: South Africa to educate citizens about Nigeria’s role
“Nigeria is a country that gave profile to the international pillar of our revolution in the UN and the commonwealth."
South Africa exhumes political prisoners hanged during apartheid
The remains would be identified and returned to their families.
Who steps into the shoes of Nelson Mandela? By Muhammad Jameel Yusha’u
Africa had never been short of great people. But few would argue that in colonial and postcolonial Africa, the greatest ...
Madiba Nelson Mandela (1918-2013): Only The Deep Can Call To The Deep, By Adeolu Ademoyo
He gave us many signs that he was leaving. But we fell on our knees to beg him not to ...
What Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Meant To Me, By Hannatu Musawa
As the news of the passing of a hero broke on this sad December morning, the heartbreak and sadness felt ...
Mandela: With Africa’s soul gone, nothing miraculous left in the world — Wole Soyinka
The death of former South African President, Nelson Mandela, seems to have left Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, world acclaimed wordsmith, ...
How Mandela represented hope and opportunity, By Shehu Sani
The news of the death of the hero of the anti apartheid struggle, Nelson Mandela was a painful one. Africa,the ...