Continued….. 4. Birao, CAR – Sudanese refugee children attend a summer school class. With support from UNHCR, they are able to attend school with their Central African counterparts. However, they must now learn in French as opposed to their native Arabic.
5. La Restinga, Spain – A Spanish search and rescue captain gestures as a boat from Senegal, carrying 85 migrants, arrives at the Canary Islands. According to Spain’s interior ministry, migrant arrivals to the Canaries has more than doubled in the first 7.5 months of 2024, with 22,304 arrivals by August 15. That’s up 126% on the same period last year.
6. Bejaia, Algeria – Algerian presidential candidate Youssef Aouchiche, of the Socialist Forces Front, holds a campaign rally ahead of September’s elections. He’ll face two other candidates including incumbent Abdelmadjid Tebboune and Abdelaali Hassani.
5. La Restinga, Spain – A Spanish search and rescue captain gestures as a boat from Senegal, carrying 85 migrants, arrives at the Canary Islands. According to Spain’s interior ministry, migrant arrivals to the Canaries has more than doubled in the first 7.5 months of 2024, with 22,304 arrivals by August 15. That’s up 126% on the same period last year.
6. Bejaia, Algeria – Algerian presidential candidate Youssef Aouchiche, of the Socialist Forces Front, holds a campaign rally ahead of September’s elections. He’ll face two other candidates including incumbent Abdelmadjid Tebboune and Abdelaali Hassani.
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VENEZUELA REACTION: IT’S ALL ABOUT THE OIL!
The US and other Western nations have refused to recognise the official results of the recently held Venezuelan elections, according to which the incumbent, Nicolas Maduro, won. These outside powers claim that the results announced by the country’s electoral body were manipulated and did not reflect the wishes of the majority. They have since ‘recognised’ opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzales as the ‘winner.’This is not the first time that the West has pulled such a stunt in Venezuela - it was a similar story in the late 1990s when Hugo Chavez was elected as president and implemented major social, political and economic changes.
The US and other Western nations have refused to recognise the official results of the recently held Venezuelan elections, according to which the incumbent, Nicolas Maduro, won. These outside powers claim that the results announced by the country’s electoral body were manipulated and did not reflect the wishes of the majority. They have since ‘recognised’ opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzales as the ‘winner.’This is not the first time that the West has pulled such a stunt in Venezuela - it was a similar story in the late 1990s when Hugo Chavez was elected as president and implemented major social, political and economic changes.
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Continued….. One of the most significant such changes was taking control of the oil sector, which had been under the sway of US multinational oil companies for decades.In this clip from a conversation with African Stream, Sobukwe Shukura - a member of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party - argues that the pushing-out of US oil firms from Venezuela’s oil sector is the chief reason the country has remained in the West’s crosshairs for most of the last 25 years.What are your thoughts on this?
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PLO: AFRICANS SHOULD STAY TO BUILD AFRICA
The far-right is on the rise across the West. Recent riots in Britain have been a prelude of events to come, boding ill for Africans outside the continent as racist mobs have embarked on a campaign targeting Britain’s non-white population.
In the Mediterranean Sea, Africans have been dying attempting to cross into Europe for a chance at a better life.
Meanwhile, in this 2017 video, Pan-African scholar PLO Lumumba explained the urgent need for Africans to build the motherland. After all, with water, land and minerals, what doesn’t Africa have?
The far-right is on the rise across the West. Recent riots in Britain have been a prelude of events to come, boding ill for Africans outside the continent as racist mobs have embarked on a campaign targeting Britain’s non-white population.
In the Mediterranean Sea, Africans have been dying attempting to cross into Europe for a chance at a better life.
Meanwhile, in this 2017 video, Pan-African scholar PLO Lumumba explained the urgent need for Africans to build the motherland. After all, with water, land and minerals, what doesn’t Africa have?
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Continued……He added the dysfunction in Africa is no accident, but the result of a deliberate play by the powers that colonised us. Lumumba said Westerners have taken advantage of the void created by the erasure of Pan-African identity to make the enemy seem like family. For example, more French speakers live in Africa than in France, while French extraction on the continent props up living standards in Europe.
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He was one of the very last Africans to be taken into slavery in the United States and the only known African Muslim who left an autobiography in Arabic about his years in captivity as a slave. His name was Omar Ibn Said. He was an African scholar and this is his story.
What do you think of Ibn Said’s experience? Let us know what you think in the comments.
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AFRO-VENEZUELANS TARGETED BY OPPOSITION
Venezuela’s opposition is often portrayed by the media as the victim of an ‘oppressive’ government. And coverage of the current protests over President Nicolas Maduro’s recent election win is no different.
However, what’s often not covered is the opposition’s aggression towards Venezuelans of African heritage. For the last two decades, Afro-Venezuelans have backed successive socialist governments that have stood up for their rights. Former leader Hugo Chavez even designated May 10 as Afro-Venezuelan Day, to celebrate their culture and history. But that staunch support for him, and now Maduro, has caused tension, with many reports of violent attacks by opposition members.
One of the most gruesome incidents happened in 2017, when 21-year-old Orlando Figuera was stabbed and set on fire by a mob after he passed near their opposition protest. He later died from his injuries.
African Stream’s William Sakawa delves into the history behind the hatred.
Venezuela’s opposition is often portrayed by the media as the victim of an ‘oppressive’ government. And coverage of the current protests over President Nicolas Maduro’s recent election win is no different.
However, what’s often not covered is the opposition’s aggression towards Venezuelans of African heritage. For the last two decades, Afro-Venezuelans have backed successive socialist governments that have stood up for their rights. Former leader Hugo Chavez even designated May 10 as Afro-Venezuelan Day, to celebrate their culture and history. But that staunch support for him, and now Maduro, has caused tension, with many reports of violent attacks by opposition members.
One of the most gruesome incidents happened in 2017, when 21-year-old Orlando Figuera was stabbed and set on fire by a mob after he passed near their opposition protest. He later died from his injuries.
African Stream’s William Sakawa delves into the history behind the hatred.
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Thanks to a kind of linguistic branding by colonial powers, the majority of African nations fall into one of three camps: Anglophone (English speaking), Francophone (French speaking) or Lusophone (Portuguese speaking).
However, with at least 200-million speakers, Swahili is quickly becoming one of the world’s most-used languages - one that that could rival and edge out the colonial legacy languages to become the continent’s lingua franca (minus the ‘franc’ bit!).
In its heartland, Swahili and its dialects stretch from parts of Somalia down to Mozambique, northern Madagascar and across to the western parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Its rise, development and spread make it the only African language used as a working language in the African Union.
However, with at least 200-million speakers, Swahili is quickly becoming one of the world’s most-used languages - one that that could rival and edge out the colonial legacy languages to become the continent’s lingua franca (minus the ‘franc’ bit!).
In its heartland, Swahili and its dialects stretch from parts of Somalia down to Mozambique, northern Madagascar and across to the western parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Its rise, development and spread make it the only African language used as a working language in the African Union.
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Continued…. It’s important to note that the growing world status of Swahili neither competes with nor invalidates the importance of any other African language. The idea of Swahili as a pan-African language was pushed in the 1960s by Tanzania's first President Julius Nyerere, who used the language to unify his nation after independence. Despite Swahili’s high profile, currently, English is the official or second language in 27 out of the 55 countries in Africa (counting Western Sahara), and French is the official language in 21 of them. If Swahili is to become truly pan-African, it will take political will and financial investment to reach all regions.
This week’s Facts of the Week provide a comprehensive overview of the Swahili language, highlighting its importance not only in East Africa but across the entire continent and beyond.
Tupe maoni yako kuhusu matumizi ya Kiswahili kama lugha rasmi ya Afrika!
This week’s Facts of the Week provide a comprehensive overview of the Swahili language, highlighting its importance not only in East Africa but across the entire continent and beyond.
Tupe maoni yako kuhusu matumizi ya Kiswahili kama lugha rasmi ya Afrika!
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