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Current Feed Content“Training journalists with UK and US help”or is it a case of cheque-book colonialism? Is this a case of cheque-book journalism or is it a case of cheque-book colonialism? Not only that. Let us ask what “human rights” these colonialists in USA and UK know to be “training”, or should we say brainwashing, young impressionable African youth? This week the USA has invaded some Iraqi newsroom and arrested the editor. Last year, they bombed the offices of Al-Jazeera TV to get it off air. Africa’s own firebrand pan-Africanist and pre-eminent...LITERARY CORNER - A long way from homeChinua Achebe, 'the father of modern African literature', talks to Ed Pilkington about inventing a new language, his years in exile from his beloved Nigeria - and why he changed his name from Albert. By rights I should be talking to Chinua Achebe in Ogidi, his home town in Nigeria. He should be telling me about his efforts as chairman of the village council to build schools, improve the water and bring health to the people. We should be talking about whether and when the rains will come, and... |
