Riding Kenya’s aborted revolution

Written by Owei Lakemfa

Friday, 09 May 2008

A new Kenyan government is now in place. In spite of its unwieldy composition of 42 ministers and numerous assistant ministers, it is a welcome relief.

It had taken an inconclusive general election, 1,500 lives and 300,000 internally displaced people to get to this shaky stage.

Kenya had erupted like a latent volcano with the lava of anger and hate sprouting into the air and flowing freely in the streets.

The Black (First) Europeans: African Slavs, African Celts

Compiled and Edited by Ogu Eji Ofo Annu

April 14, 2008

Reconstructing the phylogeny of African
mitochondrial DNA lineages in Slavs

Kushites of Sumer and Akkad

By

Clyde Winters Ph.D

Controversy surrounding the Kushite/African/Black origins of the Elamites, Sumerians, Akkadians and “Assyrians” is simple and yet complicated. It involves both the racism exhibited toward the African slaves in the Western Hemisphere and Africans generally which led to the idea that Africans had no history ; and the need of Julius Oppert to make Semites white, to accommodate the “white” ancestry of European Jews.

Miracle of the Sun In Addis Abebe Ethiopia : Ring of Red Gold and Green around the Sun

By Jide Uwechia
Tuesday April 15 2008

According to newsreports, a halo of red gold and green colours hanging around the sun startled people in Ethiopia on April 13, 2008, with many seeing it as a miracle or a sign from God.

According to scientists, this unheard of ring of red, gold and green light was supposedly caused by sunlight refracted by ice crystals. It hung in the sky around the sun for almost an hour before it finally faded and disappeared.

Alicia Keys raps “Gun-sta” Rap - by The Lion!

Alicia Keys reportedly claimed that ‘gangsta rap’ was created and nutured by the Elites powers which control the music and entertainment industry to destroy the black community.

She’s quoted as telling Blender magazine recently: “‘Gangsta rap’ was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. ‘Gangsta rap’ didn’t exist.”

She is probably right! Rap and hip-hop began as off shoot of Black cultural empowerment movements that emphasized self respect, self determination, and self empowerment. Its link with Rastafarian’s reagge music is well known. Reggea originally was a musical genre associated with Pan-Africanist Rastafarians. It remains an inspiration to all lovers of freedom and truth the world over.

Meaning of A Negro and The One Drop Rule : The Laws of Louisiana

Litigation on the subject of the definition ofthe free person of color reached its climax in the year of our Lord,1909, when Judge Frank D. Chretien defined the word Negro as differentiated from person of color as used in Louisiana. The case, as it was argued in court, was briefly this. It was charged that one Treadway, a white man, was living in illegal relations with an octoroon, Josephine Lightell.

By Robert Bazell
Chief science and health correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 5:52 p.m. ET June 5, 2007

Breast cancer treatment may fail most women
Researchers say common chemotherapy drugs too risky for many patient

What if an estimated 100,000 breast cancer patients got drugs that did nothing to combat their cancer, but put them at risk for heart failure and leukemia?

That is the implication of new research that was presented in private session at this week’s meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology(ASCO) in Chicago.

S Leone honours Africa slave campaigners
By Yvonne Ndege-Burke and Mohammed Fajah-Barrie
BBC Africa, Freetown
Tuesday, 20 March 2007, 09:41 GMT

As the UK marks 200 years since it abolished the slave trade, Sierra Leone has decided to purge its capital, Freetown, of streets named after the British and replace them with the names of Africans who fought in the abolition movement.

Freetown, as its name implies, was founded in 1787 as a home for freed slaves and many residents have welcomed the move to recognise African heroes on its streets.

Ratzinger the Inglorious Rat — Newsreport

A British documentary claimed that Pope Benedict XVI was implicated in the systematic cover-up of child sex abuse allegations against Catholic priests.

Before becoming head of the church, the then cardinal Joseph Ratzinger enforced church doctrinal orthodoxy, including a “secret Vatican decree which seemed to shelter the perpetrators and silence the victims of abuse”, the Panorama programme said.

This was the 1962 document Crimen Sollicitationis, which told top churchmen how to deal with priests who “solicit or provoke the penitent toward impure and obscene matters”, according to a translation from Latin on the BBC website.

Haplogroup K2-M70 - by Jide Uwechia

Haplogroup K2 (M70, M184, M193, M272) is a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. It is a subclade of Haplogroup K.

Haplogroup K2 is present throughout Africa in varying degrees. Its highest frequency is also found in Africa, particularly Somalia. It is also present in Southwest Asia, South Asia, and Southern Europe, and, at an even lower level, throughout Europe.

For instance, Haplogroup K2-M70 has been detected in 8.3% (10/121) of Omani Arab, 8.2% (12/147) of Egyptian, 7.2% (10/139) of Iraqi and 10.4% (21/201) of Somali males, which is much higher than its frequency in other populations.