Entries Tagged as ‘Africa’

May 30, 2008

All roads lead from women to social change

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable… and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you’re never going to defeat this pandemic.
- Stephen Lewis
Debra Black highlighted an important issue in the Toronto Star a few days ago in her two part piece on the grandmothers of Africa, and it was [...]

February 5, 2008

Profile: Patrice Lumumba

This is my second ‘profile’, this time not on a figure relevant to black history in the US and Canada, but a great African leader who lost his life in the struggle for African independence from imperialism and colonization.

Patrice Lumumba was the first, and democratically elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, after [...]

January 5, 2008

!!%?&!$!!?!

“The Black Man in America has been colonized mentally, his mind has been destroyed. And today, even though he goes to college, he comes out and still doesn’t even know he is a Black Man; he is ashamed of what he is because his culture has been destroyed; he has been made to hate his [...]