The gorilla photography on the cover of National Geographic Magazine conveys a the message that animals are more important than people. It is colonialist, racist, and supportive of multi-national and strategic interests.
Happy New Year! We've had the pleasure of helping to create and now write and and moderate this automotive blog beginning in June, 2008, and so far i...
How do you raise 'American kids' when you were raised to be an African parent?
"No African head of state should be in power for more than 10 years," declared President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda in 1986. He is still president.
If rape is a weapon of the Congo's war, then treat it with the gravity afforded every other weapon. Until the sexual violence ends, the world has no right to speak of peace.
On this Human Rights Day, video serves as a powerful tool to expose incidents that threaten the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to spur individuals to exercise their freedom of speech.
Image: Kivu 2007 © G. Nienaber On August 1, the BBC reported very troubling news that Congolese government forces and rebel troops in Eastern Demo...
At this year's holiday break, as I pause for a little while, am still fixated on one crisis -- the conflict and humanitarian disaster still unfolding in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The deadliest war since Adolf Hitler marched across Europe is starting again -- and you are almost certainly carrying a blood-soaked chunk of the slaughter in your pocket.
Fresh from a two-week visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, I watch on television the escalation of war, one that has already claimed five million lives since 1998.
The 53 countries of Africa have remained profoundly attached to a vision of America as land of justice, opportunity and freedom. Obama's election will only make such feelings much more intense.
Africa is no more the "Dark Continent" and overpopulated than Iraq was a haven for weapons of mass destruction. I just hate it when I am bamboozled...
This is a video of artists, activists and children reading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- send it to everyone you know.
Many Westerners have heard next to nothing about the violence in the D. R. Congo, despite the fact that its aftermath is still deadlier on a daily basis than all other current wars on earth combined.
Insecurity in eastern Congo is a threat to the entire region. If the violence persists, there is very little to prevent it from igniting another conflict that could pull in states from around the continent.
Headlines from Africa in 2008 recounted brutal riots in Kenya, a war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and election-driven chaos in Zimbabwe. But there was also good news.
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