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Ngugi: Thomas Sankara Lives!
Znet Article, October, 04 2007
Mukoma Ngugi
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In April this year, we celebrated 50 yrs of Ghana's Independence. In October, we are marking the 20th year since Thomas Sankara's assassination - a stark reminder that we are still in the state Odinga Oginga called Not Yet Uhuru. We will be re...
Ngugi: Farewell to Political Activism
Znet Article, August, 03 2007
Mukoma Ngugi
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We either value African life, understand a black life as equal to a white life and the poor as equally deserving as the wealthy - or we do not. This reformulation of Frantz Fanon's "a given society is either racist or not" or better yet of Malco...
Ngugi: Africa and Nuclear Weapons
Znet Article, July, 16 2007
Mukoma Ngugi
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Africa - Unite or Perish! Kwame Nkrumah might as well have been referring to the threat from the ever diversifying number of countries in the nuclear armaments race - India, Pakistan, China, North Korea and in the near horizon, Iran. To this lis...
Ngugi: Africa Uniting Less, Perishing More
Znet Article, June, 19 2007
Mukoma Ngugi
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When in 1946 Winston Churchill called for a United States of Europe, so soon after the World War II, many must have thought him still shell-shocked. Then it was unimaginable that a mere generation later there would be a European Union with a singl...
Ngugi: African Democracies for Sale
Znet Article, February, 07 2007
Mukoma Ngugi
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Some of the most important threats to democracy in Africa are the International Republican Institute (IRI), USAID and other international NGO’s that are directly funded by the United States Congress. These are US foreign policy institutio...
Ngugi: Africa and Latin America
Znet Article, September, 17 2006
Mukoma Ngugi
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Roots of Optimism and Contradictions The Berlin Wall is dismantled brick by brick in November of 1989. It becomes a symbol of freedom and new beginnings. A few months into 1990 the Soviet Union collapses and from its ruins a plethora of nations...
Ngugi: War, Silence and the Politics of Language
Znet Article, August, 09 2006
Mukoma Ngugi
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War on Silence (I) When they came for the Irish, Blacks and Jews Iremained silent. You see, I was yet to be born.And when it happened again I was too young and - waiting to go into college. Later when they jailed anti-war protestors, waiting t...
Ngugi: Fela Kuti
Znet Article, April, 16 2006
Mukoma Ngugi
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Arrest the Music! Fela and his Rebel Art and Politics by Tejumola Olaniyan. Indiana University Press, 2004. In 1977, Tejumola Olaniyan narrates, Nigerian soldiers armed with AK 47’s invaded a musical concert by Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. T...
Ngugi: Can Zimbabwe Become Africa's Cuba, Part 2
Znet Article, November, 04 2005
Mukoma Ngugi
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Back to Part 1 Which Way Out: ZANU PF, MDC or Moyo’s Third Way? If ZANU PF has been hurt by the state of the economy and US led sanctions, so has the MDC. The sanctions were called for by the MDC. However sanctions work when most of t...
