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Africa Rejects Europe's 'Dirty Diesel'

Posted by Nana Baakan Agyiriwah on May 13, 2017 at 5:00pm

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In this video, we take a look at the circumstances surrounding the import of substandard petroleum into Africa from European Countries, the impact of the use of this fuel on the health and well being of the population in Africa, particularly West Africa, the efforts put forth by "Public Eye" as Swiss NGO and the cooperation of African Countries among themselves to establish changes in the standards of fuel allowed to be used.

We look at the growing populations, traffic congestion, political and

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The Power of Women in West Africa: Queen Mothers

Posted by Nana Baakan Agyiriwah on January 3, 2016 at 12:48am

The Power of Women in West Africa: Queen Mothers

NB Commentary:

I am sharing this piece for the information that it contains. All too often we tend to use rhetoric, stereotypes and innuendos when talking about our African brothers and sisters in the Homeland. Many of us have been conditioned to see and believe that African peoples are and have been primitive with no real social order, familial structure, civilization, rules or customs. Those of us who have traveled there come to see a different wo

The Sacking of Benin

Posted by SendMeYourNews on May 30, 2012 at 11:47am

Today we were reminded of one of the greatest crimes of the British Empire- the massacre of thousands of innocents and the looting of the city of Benin in 1897

We went to see the magnificent pieces of Bronzework and carvings from the golden age of Benin civilisations exhibited in the Horniman Museum in South London.

This is a marvellous display if you can forget the blood dripping from them.

These cultural artefacts were stolen by the British, the great rogue state of the nineteenth

Dance Africa at BAM Celebrates its 34th Year Memorial Weekend May 27-30

Posted by SendMeYourNews on May 24, 2011 at 12:06am

by Gloria Dulan-Wilson

The Saturday before Memorial Day, is the kick off for Dance Africa, when Baba Chuck Davis, founder of the African American Dance Ensemble, and his troupe land in Brooklyn to regale us with his latest gathering of talent from Africa and her Diaspora. And this week end was absolutely spectacular.

Davis who stands tall at 6’5” presided over the event from the sidelines, while locally based community groups presented their youth, attired in African regalia, dancing their hear

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Africa Rejects Europe's 'Dirty Diesel'

The Power of Women in West Africa: Queen Mothers

The Sacking of Benin

Dance Africa at BAM Celebrates its 34th Year Memorial Weekend May 27-30

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