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Calls for assistance

God made us with great differences in terms of our individual capacities. While some are talented in specific areas of the arts, others are gifted with wisdom, and for others material riches are the bases of their strength. Nature dictates that we can never be equal; lest there will be no peace in the world, because nobody would want to submit to authority. This explains why we have the rich, the educated, the wise, and the power-wielding among us; the genuine execution of everybody’s role is...

Racing for Africa’s riches

Chinese, Russian and Indian investors are battling for African resources to fuel their growing empires. Russian’s foreign policy is now focusing more on investing in Africa as they lost out of the scramble for Africa or to be blunt they never participate, now they want to make up for lost time by investing and reaping and raping and  ridding Africa of it natural resources. Look at places like DRC where the war still ravages and the crème de la crème of the elites are in hiding in the West so...

CHEIKH ANTA DIOP, The Pharoah of Knowledge

On the 7th of February, 1986, Africa lost one of her illustrious sons, Cheikh Anta Diop, an exceptional African whose singular destiny and contributions were in tune with an Africa sometimes (promising), hopeful and some times despondent. While leaving us, Professor Cheikh Anta Diop bequeathed to Africa a heritage of liberation without precedence: the knowledge of one's origin. It would not strike the mind of any historian of the ancient Mediterranean civilizations to deny the crucial role...

Imagining Life Without Oil

Though the use of petroleum has been traced back to ancient civilizations, today’s modern societies rely on the earth’s natural gift of oil more than ever before. The convenient lifestyles to which we have become unyieldingly accustomed are enabled in large part by oil and its byproducts. Life without the energy and products made possible by oil is practically unimaginable due to the extent to which we rely on this seemingly simple natural substance. The long held uncertainty surrounding the...