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Muammar Gaddafi: his history, influence on the continent and impact on African and Arab relations

Posted by TheBlackList News on April 28, 2011 at 9:00am

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9^TH HOUR INTERVIEW – THE POWER OF SOUND

Transcript of Namibia Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) Radio interview done 5^th April 2011

MR !GOAGOSEB: It is the 9^th Hour on National Radio. My name is Ricardo !Goagoseb and I will be keeping you company in today’s edition of your favourite topical discussion programme. We look at issues of national, continental as well as global interest that is here on the power of National Radio 92.6 FM. This morning, as you know, since the beg

Keeping Our Eyes on the Ball (2)

Posted by KWASI Akyeampong on October 28, 2010 at 8:30pm

by Kwesi Kwaa Prah

Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS)

Cape Town

Dear Gen. Williams*,

The flurry of emails, I have so far seen, have maintained the pace and heat of the discussions that were initiated and aired during our Johannesburg meeting of early January this year. This is enormously encouraging, because the free exchange of views is crucial to the identification and elaboration of a platform for ideas which could eventually feed into the 8th Congress. As originators

SUDAN AND THE ‘BORDERLANDS’ AREA -- STUDIES IN AFRICAN AND DIASPORA HISTORY

Posted by TheBlackList on November 20, 2009 at 12:00pm

*SUDAN AND THE ‘BORDERLANDS’ – AREA STUDIES IN AFRICAN AND DIASPORA HISTORY* by BF BANKIE mailto:bfbankie@gmail.com Paper delivered at the international colloquium ‘Teaching African history and culture to the Diaspora and teaching Diaspora history and culture to Africa’, held in Brasilia, Brazil, 9-13th November 2009, convened by CBAAC, PANAFSTRAG, Nigeria and The Special Secretariat for the Promotion of Racial Equality (SEPPIR) of the Government of Brazil, Brasilia, Brazil. ‘The linkage of A

Africa

Mauritania-case study in Borderlands relations

Posted by BF Bankie on March 30, 2009 at 10:10am

BF Bankie:Location: Northwest Africa, latitude 250 & 150, longitude 170 & 70. Bordered by Senegal to the south, Mali to the east, eastern Algeria to the north, West Sahara to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.Main geographic features: The country occupies an area of 1,037,000 sq. km, of which 80 per cent is arid and 20 per cent semi-arid. It consists of a plateau, of which the highest point in 915m, and the Adrar Mountains in the north. Mauritania has 700km of Atlantic Coastline and 8

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THE AFRO-ARAB CIVILISATION DIALOGUE

Posted by BF Bankie on March 16, 2009 at 1:00pm

BF BANKIE:Due to its denigration of African culture Arabia, since it’s incursion into Africa, has seen the continent as a civilization vacuum waiting to be filled by Arab culture and Islam.The painful fact is that it was only with the initiation of the current peace process between Khartoum, in central Sudan and Juba in south Sudan and the international focus on the genocide in Darfur, that it became apparent to the public at large, that from Mauritania on the Atlantic coast, moving eastwards to

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THE ROOT CAUSES OF THE WARS IN SOUTH SUDAN, DARFUR AND THE AFRO-ARAB BORDERLANDS–‘A CLASH OF CIVILISATIONS‘ OR RACISM ?

Posted by BF Bankie on March 13, 2009 at 9:32pm

BF BANKIE:The problems that the Borderlands raise, being that area of Africa stretching from Sudan on the Red Sea to Mauritania on the Atlantic Ocean, date back thousands of years. That area provides a sharper, historically based, holistic definition of the African personality than that hitherto offered by the Black consciousness movements in the Americas and southern Africa .The last population census conducted in Sudan was in 1983. Population figures in Sudan, the largest country in Africa, an

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South Sudan – the last state in Africa to obtain, in 2011, Independence ?

Posted by BF Bankie on March 12, 2009 at 11:49pm

BF BANKIE:Lt Gen Joseph Lagu (Rtd), who led the Anya-nya, the freedom fighters of South Sudan, in their fight against the Arab-led Khartoum government, in the first stage, which ran from 1955 to 1972, of the recent phase of the armed struggle , from 1983 to 2005, states in his book ‘ Sudan – Odyssey through a state – From ruin to hope’, quoting from The Anya-nya Manifesto, on family and ethnicity, as follows :-The enemy is waging a war of annihilation against us; he wantsto destroy us completely

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The root causes of the war in South Sudan and the Anya-nya armed struggle

Posted by BF Bankie on March 12, 2009 at 12:21pm

Many find it difficult to accept the root causes of the last phase of the protracted war in South Sudan , which ran from 1955 to 1972 and from 1983 to 2005. In order to establish the causes, the book of Lt Gen Joseph Lagu (Rtd), entitled ‘Sudan – Odyssey through a state – From ruin to hope’ is drawn upon. The key to understanding Afro-Arab relations, past and present and the relevance of South Sudan is found in the reasons for the conflict.Lagu, who is alive and well, spending a good part of his

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THE AFRO-ARAB CIVILISATION DIALOGUE

Posted by BF Bankie on February 28, 2009 at 12:00am

B.F. BANKIE:Due to its denigration of African culture Arabia, since it’s incursion into Africa, has seen the continent as a civilization vacuum waiting to be filled by Arab culture and Islam.The painful fact is that it was only with the initiation of the current peace process between Khartoum, in central Sudan and Juba in south Sudan and the international focus on the genocide in Darfur, that it became apparent to the public at large, that from Mauritania on the Atlantic coast, moving eastwards

Africa

The genocide in South Sudan and Darfur and its implications

Posted by BF Bankie on February 27, 2009 at 8:57am

B.F. BANKIE:There were two main migrations out of Africa. There was the first exodus of the original man ( Homo sapiens sapiens ), who was black and who settled all over the world. The next migration out of Africa was forced by slavery. Although the western Diaspora in the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe is known, the eastern Diaspora, which preceded the western Diaspora by a millennium, is not generally known. The African eastern Diaspora is found wherever Africans were taken in Caucasia and

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FROM THE BORDERLANDS: Africa unity or unity of Africans

Posted by BF Bankie on May 15, 2008 at 7:18pm

FROM THE BORDERLANDS:Africa unity or unity of Africansby B.F. BankieHaiti provides a classic study in the use of race as a social determinant in the 1600s. The large plantations were owned by ‘grand blancs’ - that is by Whites. Below them were the ‘petit blancs’ – those were White clerks and artisans. Then came the mulattos/coloureds, some of whom were better-off that the ‘petit blancs’, but they had no political rights. Further down the social scale were the Black former slaves, now freed Black

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Muammar Gaddafi: his history, influence on the continent and impact on African and Arab relations

Keeping Our Eyes on the Ball (2)

SUDAN AND THE ‘BORDERLANDS’ AREA -- STUDIES IN AFRICAN AND DIASPORA HISTORY

Mauritania-case study in Borderlands relations

THE AFRO-ARAB CIVILISATION DIALOGUE

THE ROOT CAUSES OF THE WARS IN SOUTH SUDAN, DARFUR AND THE AFRO-ARAB BORDERLANDS–‘A CLASH OF CIVILISATIONS‘ OR RACISM ?

South Sudan – the last state in Africa to obtain, in 2011, Independence ?

The root causes of the war in South Sudan and the Anya-nya armed struggle

THE AFRO-ARAB CIVILISATION DIALOGUE

The genocide in South Sudan and Darfur and its implications

FROM THE BORDERLANDS: Africa unity or unity of Africans

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