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THE BIG READ Miriam Makeba: the legendary

Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 - 9 November 2008) was a South African singer and civil rights activist. The Grammy Award winning afrobeat artist is often referred to as Mama Afrika.Zenzile Miriam Makeba was born in Johannesburg in 1932. Her mother was a Swazi sangoma and her father, who died when she was six, was a Xhosa. As a child, she sang at the Kilmerton Training Institute in Pretoria, which she attended for eight years. Makeba first toured with an amateur group. Her professional career...

Justice and mercy

Discipline is a pre-requisite for harmony as it propagates tolerance and understanding. When a society is wanting in discipline, it is in effect, at a state of war with itself. Confusion, unrest, banditry, and all sorts of destabilizing situations, are what such a society stands to gain. The result is uncertainty for its subsequent generations. This is why we are very much particular about the subject. Our concern is evident of the number of times we have attempted to address the issue here on...

Poems

Real Intelligence Where the heart is coupledwith head in an undisguised pathWhere the windwhirls on its axessinging natures hym “success”Rivers flow with unburning glowIn the absence of a vowThe earth quakes without destroying the path of natureTornados are temporal forceful stimulated argitatious that arefinally engulfed by natures own(Osmic Commandos)REAL INTELLIGENCE therefore is lettinghead and heart coupled in an undisguisedpath without tsunamic intentious or mischieve.              ...

Jayzik Azikiwe – Phenomenal Woman

Born London, 12th May 1958, died The Gambia, 31st January 2008. Jayzik was, to use one of Maya Angelou’s poetic expressions, a ‘phenomenal woman’.  She lived at full speed, in full colour and brought joy into many people’s lives. Even if you think you didn’t know her, it’s most likely you did.  If you managed to miss the fierce dreadlocks, decked in silver rings and seashells, and you weren’t dazzled by the vibrant colour – greens, oranges, yellows – anything that wasn’t black – of the...

I am becoming a friend

Lovelines There is a lady that I have been nursing her love in my heart for a long time she is a course mate at the institution. I got used to her due to her constant greeting and smile whenever we meet. I found out and know her name. As I was trying to familiarize myself with her through greeting so she is reducing her friendship greeting towards me.  I got her phone number from a friend and started chatting with her. I wanted to express my feeling to her in one of the chats but the chance...

FIFA fund not for National teams-Says FIFA Development Officer

Sampon Kablan, Development Officer of the World Football Governing Body (FIFA), has revealed that the funds given to the national football associations are not meant for National teams, but for the development of youth football. Kablan said National teams are national assets that should be solely funded by the governments and not national associations. The FIFA regional boss made these remarks at a press briefing held on Saturday, shortly after the handing over of the keys to the new...