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AKALA: DON'T BLAME RELIGION FOR INDIVIDUAL CRIMES
International media is quick to condemn an entire religion for the crimes of an individual, especially when the perpetrator is a Black, Brown or Muslim. That's according to Akala, a British rapper and activist, in a 2016 episode of UK-based Not For the Radio.
He argues Europeans' crimes are whitewashed, citing the example of Norwegian Anders Breivik, who shot and k*lled 77 people at a Norwegian summer youth camp in 2011. Akala (@akalamusic) said the media did not describe Breivik as a white nationalist Christian t*rrorist, but as a 'lone wolf.'
Video credit: @notfortheradio
International media is quick to condemn an entire religion for the crimes of an individual, especially when the perpetrator is a Black, Brown or Muslim. That's according to Akala, a British rapper and activist, in a 2016 episode of UK-based Not For the Radio.
He argues Europeans' crimes are whitewashed, citing the example of Norwegian Anders Breivik, who shot and k*lled 77 people at a Norwegian summer youth camp in 2011. Akala (@akalamusic) said the media did not describe Breivik as a white nationalist Christian t*rrorist, but as a 'lone wolf.'
Video credit: @notfortheradio
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Continued... Yet, when Seifeddine Rezgui k*lled 38 mostly European tourists at a Tunisian resort in 2015, Tunisian authorities cracked down on mosques for supposedly radicalising the youth, blaming Islamists for breeding terrorists in the North African country. However, the core issue for Tunisian youth is economic and political disenfranchisement due to decades of mismanagement. A sad reality that sparked the Arab Spring uprisings was when 26-year-old Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi set himself ablaze in 2010 to protest government corruption.
Do you agree with Akala's assessment? Let us know.
Sources:
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/coup-in-tunisia-is-democracy-lost/
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/06/29/418490363/after-slaughter-of-tourists-tunisia-cracks-down-on-islamists
https://www.smh.com.au/world/tunisia-terror-attack-the-radical-mosques-that-bred-gunman-seifeddine-rezgui-20150629-gi073c.html
https://www.dw.com/en/tunisia-to-close-80-mosques-following-terror-attack/a-18544478
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/what-makes-lone-wolfe-terrorists-245316
https://mena.fes.de/blog/e/the-tunisian-youth-in-a-whirlwind-of-uncertainty.html
https://www.arab-reform.net/publication/tunisia-youth-take-a-stand-for-against-the-presidents-decisions-and-watch-in-limbo/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305008679_'Lone_Wolf_Terrorism'_The_Case_of_Anders_Breivik
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/08/one-of-us-review-compelling-anders-breivik
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68310127
https://www.crisisgroup.org/global/exploiting-disorder-al-qaeda-and-islamic-state
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/06/tunisia-sousse-isis-democracy/397169/
Do you agree with Akala's assessment? Let us know.
Sources:
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/coup-in-tunisia-is-democracy-lost/
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/06/29/418490363/after-slaughter-of-tourists-tunisia-cracks-down-on-islamists
https://www.smh.com.au/world/tunisia-terror-attack-the-radical-mosques-that-bred-gunman-seifeddine-rezgui-20150629-gi073c.html
https://www.dw.com/en/tunisia-to-close-80-mosques-following-terror-attack/a-18544478
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/what-makes-lone-wolfe-terrorists-245316
https://mena.fes.de/blog/e/the-tunisian-youth-in-a-whirlwind-of-uncertainty.html
https://www.arab-reform.net/publication/tunisia-youth-take-a-stand-for-against-the-presidents-decisions-and-watch-in-limbo/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305008679_'Lone_Wolf_Terrorism'_The_Case_of_Anders_Breivik
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/08/one-of-us-review-compelling-anders-breivik
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68310127
https://www.crisisgroup.org/global/exploiting-disorder-al-qaeda-and-islamic-state
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/06/tunisia-sousse-isis-democracy/397169/
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From happenings at the UN to the repatriation of fallen anti-apartheid fighters in Zimbabwe, here’s our weekly photo dump.
1. Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - Kenyan president William Ruto visits Haiti to evaluate the success of the Kenyan police force deployed to help fight gangs in the country.
2. Guet Ndar, Senegal - Amid a spike in migration to Europe, 30 bodies are discovered on a capsized boat off the coast of Dakar.
3. New York, United States - DRC’s president, Felix Tshisekedi, calls for sanctions against Rwanda for “destabilising his country.”
4. New York, United States - Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva greets South African president Cyril Ramaphosa on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
1. Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - Kenyan president William Ruto visits Haiti to evaluate the success of the Kenyan police force deployed to help fight gangs in the country.
2. Guet Ndar, Senegal - Amid a spike in migration to Europe, 30 bodies are discovered on a capsized boat off the coast of Dakar.
3. New York, United States - DRC’s president, Felix Tshisekedi, calls for sanctions against Rwanda for “destabilising his country.”
4. New York, United States - Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva greets South African president Cyril Ramaphosa on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
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5. Harare, Zimbabwe - A former combatant with the Azania People's Liberation Army carries a box with the remains of one of 16 former South African freedom fighters who were buried in Zimbabwe during the struggle against the apartheid regime. The bodies of the fallen heroes will now be repatriated back to South Africa.
6. Gedaref, Sudan - Displaced Sudanese queue for food aid at a camp as the country still suffers from the largest humanitarian crises in the world.
7. New York, United States - people protest for the release of 42 Democracy Hub members who were arrested and detained in Ghana during Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo’s UN address.
6. Gedaref, Sudan - Displaced Sudanese queue for food aid at a camp as the country still suffers from the largest humanitarian crises in the world.
7. New York, United States - people protest for the release of 42 Democracy Hub members who were arrested and detained in Ghana during Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo’s UN address.
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African Stream
5. Harare, Zimbabwe - A former combatant with the Azania People's Liberation Army carries a box with the remains of one of 16 former South African freedom fighters who were buried in Zimbabwe during the struggle against the apartheid regime. The bodies of…
Sources:
https://reports.unocha.org/en/country/sudan/
https://www.ghanacelebrities.com/2024/09/26/ghanaians-in-new-york-protest-against-akufo-addo-following-un-general-assembly-address/
https://www.herald.co.zw/remains-of-16-sa-struggle-stalwarts-repatriated/
https://apnews.com/article/un-security-council-expansion-africa-us-54d1a31c24229b40a2103e08f36e52b9
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c30lmpgvvvqo
https://www.africanews.com/2024/09/26/congos-president-tshisekedi-calls-for-sanctions-against-rwanda/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyljem2xpdo
https://reports.unocha.org/en/country/sudan/
https://www.ghanacelebrities.com/2024/09/26/ghanaians-in-new-york-protest-against-akufo-addo-following-un-general-assembly-address/
https://www.herald.co.zw/remains-of-16-sa-struggle-stalwarts-repatriated/
https://apnews.com/article/un-security-council-expansion-africa-us-54d1a31c24229b40a2103e08f36e52b9
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c30lmpgvvvqo
https://www.africanews.com/2024/09/26/congos-president-tshisekedi-calls-for-sanctions-against-rwanda/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyljem2xpdo
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AFRICA LEADERS ON GAZA
At the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, African leaders gave special attention to Israel's 11-month military onslaught in the Gaza Strip, which has k*lled more than 41,000 and as many as 186,000 as of early July, according to the Lancet medical journal.
In this video, we see leaders from Angola, Comoros, Namibia, Nigeria and Zimbabwe calling for an end to Israel's 76-year occupation of Palestine. Senegal and South Africa's leaders also made similar pleas.
Many Africans see ourselves in the Palestinian people, as we both have experienced European colonialism, settler-colonialism and imperialism.
In July, the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion that Israel's occupation of the Gaza Strip, West Bank and East Jerusalem violates international law and it called for Israeli settlers to evacuate immediately.
At the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, African leaders gave special attention to Israel's 11-month military onslaught in the Gaza Strip, which has k*lled more than 41,000 and as many as 186,000 as of early July, according to the Lancet medical journal.
In this video, we see leaders from Angola, Comoros, Namibia, Nigeria and Zimbabwe calling for an end to Israel's 76-year occupation of Palestine. Senegal and South Africa's leaders also made similar pleas.
Many Africans see ourselves in the Palestinian people, as we both have experienced European colonialism, settler-colonialism and imperialism.
In July, the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion that Israel's occupation of the Gaza Strip, West Bank and East Jerusalem violates international law and it called for Israeli settlers to evacuate immediately.
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LONG LIVE SAMORA MACHEL!
Samora Machel, the leader of Mozambique's independence struggle and the country's first post-independence president, was born on this day in 1933.
He was born into a family of subsistence farmers forced off their land to pave the way for Portuguese settlers. This experience made Machel politically conscious at a young age.
After primary school, Machel trained to be a nurse and later worked at a hospital in the then-capital, Lourenço Marques. The poor working conditions for Black nurses at the hospital compared with those their White counterparts enjoyed further politicised Machel. In the early ‘60s, he left for Tanzania to join the country's liberation movement, the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO).
After undergoing military training in Algeria, he quickly rose through the ranks and, in 1970, he became FRELIMO's president after founding leader Eduardo Mondlane was killed in a bomb attack in 1969.
Samora Machel, the leader of Mozambique's independence struggle and the country's first post-independence president, was born on this day in 1933.
He was born into a family of subsistence farmers forced off their land to pave the way for Portuguese settlers. This experience made Machel politically conscious at a young age.
After primary school, Machel trained to be a nurse and later worked at a hospital in the then-capital, Lourenço Marques. The poor working conditions for Black nurses at the hospital compared with those their White counterparts enjoyed further politicised Machel. In the early ‘60s, he left for Tanzania to join the country's liberation movement, the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO).
After undergoing military training in Algeria, he quickly rose through the ranks and, in 1970, he became FRELIMO's president after founding leader Eduardo Mondlane was killed in a bomb attack in 1969.
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Continued... In 1975, he became Mozambique's president when it gained independence from Portugal.
Machel quickly embarked on an ambitious programme to develop the country. He also welcomed liberation movements fighting against racist regimes in South Africa and Rhodesia.
However, his time in power was far from easy. He fought rebels from the Resistência Nacional Moçambicana (RENAMO), whom Malawi and the two racist regimes backed. RENAMO targeted rural populations and destroyed vital economic and social facilities such as power stations and bridges.
This crippled Mozambique's economy, forcing Machel to sign a non-aggression pact with the South African apartheid regime. However, Pretoria continued to support RENAMO clandestinely.
In 1986, Machel died in a plane crash in South Africa - with accusations that Pretoria was behind the tragedy. Subsequent investigations into the crash have produced more questions than answers, and after nearly 37 years, the exact cause is yet to be determined.
What is clear, however, is that Machel was one of the finest revolutionaries and leaders the motherland has produced. His legacy is one of sacrifice and struggle for the total emancipation of the African people. Long live the undying spirit of comrade Samora Machel!
Machel quickly embarked on an ambitious programme to develop the country. He also welcomed liberation movements fighting against racist regimes in South Africa and Rhodesia.
However, his time in power was far from easy. He fought rebels from the Resistência Nacional Moçambicana (RENAMO), whom Malawi and the two racist regimes backed. RENAMO targeted rural populations and destroyed vital economic and social facilities such as power stations and bridges.
This crippled Mozambique's economy, forcing Machel to sign a non-aggression pact with the South African apartheid regime. However, Pretoria continued to support RENAMO clandestinely.
In 1986, Machel died in a plane crash in South Africa - with accusations that Pretoria was behind the tragedy. Subsequent investigations into the crash have produced more questions than answers, and after nearly 37 years, the exact cause is yet to be determined.
What is clear, however, is that Machel was one of the finest revolutionaries and leaders the motherland has produced. His legacy is one of sacrifice and struggle for the total emancipation of the African people. Long live the undying spirit of comrade Samora Machel!
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KWAME TURE: 'AFRICANS WANT CONTINENTAL UNITY!'
As Ghanaian President and Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah once famously stated, 'Pan-Africanism or perish!'
When Pan-Africanists talk about the need to fight for a unified Pan-African state with a single government and universal citizenship for all Africans, we are often told that we are not being realistic. But, let's slow down and think about it.
Nowhere in the world is the desire for continent-wide unity greater than on the African continent, as Kwame Ture remarks in this clip. Every country you go to in Africa, you can meet Pan-Africanists. Ture, a founding member of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, was born in Trinidad and organised in the United States before moving to Africa.
As Ghanaian President and Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah once famously stated, 'Pan-Africanism or perish!'
When Pan-Africanists talk about the need to fight for a unified Pan-African state with a single government and universal citizenship for all Africans, we are often told that we are not being realistic. But, let's slow down and think about it.
Nowhere in the world is the desire for continent-wide unity greater than on the African continent, as Kwame Ture remarks in this clip. Every country you go to in Africa, you can meet Pan-Africanists. Ture, a founding member of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, was born in Trinidad and organised in the United States before moving to Africa.
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Continued... The masses understand that, after 500 years of enslavement, kidnapping, colonialism, theft, genocide, terrorism and neo-colonialism, the only way we can build a new future is if Africans across the world come together as one.
What do you think of Ture's remarks? Let us know in the comments.
What do you think of Ture's remarks? Let us know in the comments.
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