A Kenyan senator says the deployment of his country's forces to Haiti will turn the Caribbean nation into "a land of milk and honey." According to Kiprotich Arap Cherargei, a member of President William Ruto's ruling party, Kenyan police officers were the only missing link in turning Haiti into a prosperous nation. It remains to be seen if Haitians will buy into the senator's pie-in-the-sky promise, but many Kenyans wonder how the very government and police officers who have slowly turned the country into a land of tears and misery can deliver the opposite across the Atlantic. And their skepticism is well founded. The Kenyan police service has a dismal record on human rights. They have, for decades, faced allegations of human rights abuses, especially when it comes to policing public demonstrations and protests.

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Continued- They have, for decades, faced allegations of human rights abuses, especially when it comes to policing public demonstrations and protests. Between March and July, more than 30 people died at the hands of police officers during protests over the rising cost of living. Some of its officers have also been implicated in extrajudicial killings and disappearances. These gloomy facts do not make the country's police force sound like the best candidate to bring 'milk and honey' to the Caribbean.

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GHANA PROTESTERS: 'ECONOMY MISGOVERNED!'

Thousands of Ghanaian protesters—wearing the traditional funeral colors of red and black—have demanded the resignation of Bank of Ghana Governor Ernest Addison and his two deputies. The crowd marched on October 3 to the central bank head office, protesting what they say is economic mismanagement during the worst debt crisis in a generation. This follows a series of protests over the high cost of living and unemployment in a country rich with cocoa, gold and oil. In July, Ghana's central bank reported a record loss of 60.8 billion cedi ($5.3 billion) for 2022, primarily due to debt restructuring. In May, Ghana signed onto a three-year, $3 billion loan programme with the International Monetary Fund.

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BEING BLACK IN HITLER'S GERMANY

Seventy-five years ago this month, Afro-German Esther Anumu Fordham landed in the USA after surviving life in Nazi Germany.
However, far from feeling safe in the "Land of Opportunity" she was confronted by the lynchings of Blacks in Post-War America. At times she said she wanted to return to Germany, where she'd lived through Hitler's oppressive rule and the Allied bombing of her home city of Hamburg where she was born.

In a bitter irony for Esther, life under Hitler - where Blacks were segregated - still felt better than what lay ahead in the US.

She tried to settle after marrying an American soldier, but moved back to Germany twenty years later.

In a recorded testimony from the mid-'90s, she gives a snapshot of her incredible life during the tumultuous first half of the 20th century.

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HOW U.S. HIJACKED HAITI'S DEMOCRACY

Kenya is leading a UN-backed security mission to Haiti to ‘restore order’. But, as always, the US is behind the scenes pulling the strings.

We spoke with Haitian-American professor Dr Jemima Pierre to make sense of what’s going on. The mission’s official goal is to combat gang violence ravaging the Caribbean island. But according to Dr Pierre, it’s just more interference by the US that authored the resolution and has sought to control the resource-rich Island for decades.

As an example, she runs through what happened in Haiti’s 2010 elections where the US pushed their man into power.

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AFRICA’S BRILLIANT MATHEMATICIAN

An African professor is bashing down stereotypes in the world of science. Abdon Atangana was voted one of the world’s best mathematicians last year, proving top-level research is not restricted to eggheads in the Global North.

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RUTO MISSION RILES HAITIANS

The UN-backed plan to deploy 1,000 Kenyan police in Haiti to combat gang violence is not going down well in Haiti. Some accuse the Haitian government of arming thugs to win elections, thus creating the gang violence problem in the first place.

Others accuse the US, France and Canada of being behind what they say is a thinly-veiled colonial attempt to remain in control of Haiti by protecting its Western puppet government using forces that look local but act foreign.

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IBRAHIM TRAORÉ AT ONE YEAR

Ibrahim Traoré has now served one year as president of the Transition of Burkina Faso, after he was appointed on 6 October 2022 following a popular coup on 30 September of that year. The 35-year-old has made a name for himself as a Pan-Africanist and as an anti-imperialist, while also serving as the world’s youngest head of state.

Let us know what you think about a few of his achievements we touch upon.

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NEOCOLONIALISM IN AFRICA

Foreign interference in Africa was implemented in phases. It started with slavery. Then the Scramble for Africa established colonisation, and later the struggle for independence. Professor PLO Lumumba, a Pan-Africanist and former director of the Kenya School of Law, stated that even after we gained our independence, we duplicated European governing systems as our own. He said, by doing this, we limit ourselves and our progress. As Ghana's former president and prime minister, Kwame Nkrumah, said in his book, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, neocolonialism is the most diabolic stage of imperialism.

Continued…Lumumba's remarks were given in May during "Foreign Interference in Africa: The Enduring Destabilising Factor," a panel discussion at the 10th National Security Symposium jointly organized by the Rwanda Defence Force Command and Staff College as well as the University of Rwanda.

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HILLARY CLINTON’S HYPOCRISY: ‘MEN START WARS’

It might come as a surprise, but Hillary Clinton blames men for starting wars. This remark came during a Q&A session on 5 October at the 2023 Hillary Rodham Clinton Awards, held at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security in Washington, D.C.

During the event, the former US Secretary of State (2009-13) was asked what the biggest obstacle for women and peace is in the modern era. According to her, it’s men starting wars. But let’s take a moment to remember the US hand in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Palestine, Yemen and Libya, just to name a few.

Continued…Clinton has supported death and destruction around the world in service of the US agenda. She is known for famously bragging in October 2011 to a reporter about the brutal murder of Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi after the 2011 US/NATO invasion.

Yet, years later, she is still being given a platform to deceive the public. Will Clinton ever face accountability? Let us know in the comments.

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US COP PUNCHING BLACK GOES VIRAL

*DISTURBING PICTURES*

This just-released footage has gone viral after a New York cop was indicted for assaulting an African in America. It appears to show sergeant Christian Zapata punching the victim in the face 13 times in less than nine seconds. Police were responding to a call about an immunocompromised autistic child at a Manhattan apartment last December. When they arrived, the mother’s boyfriend answered the door and asked them to wear face masks. They refused and, as you’ll see from this bodycam video, things turned violent. The Manhattan District Attorney said the footage shows how the the incident escalated. Zapata pleaded not guilty to a third-degree assault charge and has been suspended without pay. Statistics show Blacks bear the brunt of police brutality in the US and are three times more likely than Whites to be killed by officers. A warning, you may find this footage disturbing.

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REMEMBERING EGYPT’S OCTOBER WAR

The 1973 October Victory War, as it is known in Egypt—or the Yom Kippur War as it is known in Israel—saw Egypt regain control of the eastern-most tip of Africa and experience pride after years of bitter defeats. However, the ensuing peace created a sense of historiographic controversy as to how this moment should be remembered in Africa and across the Arab world.

Let us know in the comments what you think about this history.

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FRANCE TARGETS AFRICAN STUDENTS

Talk about impotent rage. With France being shown the door in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, and its attempts at a comeback getting frustrated at every turn, it has now resorted to targeting civilians.

France has denied hundreds of students and artists visas with ‘deteriorating security’ being cited as the reason. Many are unconvinced, and point out that Franco-Russian hostilities have not elicited the same response for example.

Continued…Below the surface, it points to the uselessness of France as a partner, and the legacy of neocolonialism, as decades of French-West Africa relations have yielded no development. Despite getting independence in the 60s, many students have to go to France due to an absence of top tier facilities at home.

But with the opportunity to develop now that France’s boot is off their necks, the hope is that Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso can now give their people everything they need so they won’t be at the whims of Paris.

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WHAT'S JULY 4 TO THE SLAVE?

Few people could do justice to a Frederick Douglass speech quite like Hollywood actor James Earl Jones, fellow talented orator. In this video, he reads the historic address, ‘What to the slave is your 4th of July,’ during a 5th July 2004 performance of Voices of a People's History of the United States. Douglass had initially used it to address the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society in 1852 in New York.

In the speech, Douglass chastises the United States' biggest holiday, the Fourth of July, a day marking US independence from Britain. Despite the Declaration of Independence being predicated upon ‘equality of men,' Africans remained slaves until 1865. What freedom then, Douglass asks, is there to celebrate?

Continued…Frederick Douglass was born in 1818 on a plantation owned by then Maryland governor and US senator Edward Lloyd V. He escaped at age 20, and dedicated his life to fighting for abolition of slavery. He was a dedicated reader and powerful orator. He wrote hundreds of essays, a novela, three autobiographies and thousands of speeches.

When the civil war broke, Douglass lobbied President Lincoln to free and arm all enslaved Africans. ‘End slavery right now. Free them and arm them. They know the South far better than anyone else.’ It is argued that had Lincoln’s administration heeded the advice earlier, the war would have been concluded sooner.

Douglass' words, like many other ancestors', ring as true today as it did then. The United States is still divided along racial lines. Africans in the United States are disenfranchised economically, with the average African household being 10 times less wealthy than their white counterparts. The gap is only widening. Africans are also overrepresented in the US prison system, with the legacy of the CIA-run crack epidemic playing a part. Yet, Donald Trump successfully ran in 2016 for US president on the 'Make America Great Again' platform. What then, as Douglass asked, is the 4th of July to a slave.

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ANCIENT EGYPTIANS WERE BLACK!

There’s a strong sense of denial that dark-skinned Africans contributed to ancient Egypt's great civilisation and accomplishments. But, in history books and in films, the original story of ancient Egyptians has remained in dispute. Mainstream scholars reject that Egypt was either a white civilization or a Black civilization, maintaining that applying notions of race is anachronistic. Meanwhile, Netflix's recent docudrama, "Queen Cleopatra," depicted the ancient Egyptian ruler as Black, causing an uproar as some Egyptians complained the feature appropriates their culture and rewrites their history. Well, this myth originates from colonial Egyptologists who argued that ancient Egypt was "Aryan" and therefore dominated nearby nations that were seen as "Negro." According to Dr Muhammad Arabi, it's very important to push back and to acknowledge all of Egypt's history. Let us know what you think in the comments.

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MALEMA: 'NO TO FOREIGN MILITARY BASES IN AFRICA'

The African continent has in the last two decades seen a proliferation of foreign military bases, a phenomenon that some stakeholders say puts the security and sovereignty of the continent at risk. Here is Julius Malema, president of South Africa's pan-Africanist political party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, sharing this view at an EFF Diplomatic Breakfast in August. Hear what he had to say about why Africa needs to kick out all foreign forces.

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