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The anti-LGBT campaign in Ghana is the last cry of a dying breed
Some of the most popular arguments in defence of homosexual humanity have never appealed to me. It may be as a result of a self-imposed attitude of intellectual rigour, making my points but weary of competent...
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Did Paul Kagame realize his problems with ‘Hotel Rwanda’ star only after Paul Rusesabagina criticized him?
In one way, this concise opinion piece is an interrogation of what Paul Rusesabagina has always believed: the persecution he currently faces in Rwanda can only be attributed to his criticism of the country’s...
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More than 300 girls kidnapped in Nigeria in throwback to 2014 Chibok girls crisis
In the northern Nigerian state of Zamfara, police are looking for 317 girls who are said to have been kidnapped while they were in school by unidentified gunmen on Friday, February 26. The girls of the...
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How Marcus Garvey actually read his own obituary in a newspaper two weeks before he died
Marcus Mosiah Garvey was an eccentric man with arguably impossible dreams. But none of these things compare to the stranger-than-fiction story of how the pioneering Pan-Africanist read a newspaper’s...
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How the refusal of white plantation owners to let mixed-race Haitians vote contributed to the revolution
Racial bases for socioeconomic and sociopolitical advantages in any given modern society is still intriguingly denied by many in good conscience, however, the subject has had a firm place in postcolonial...
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Meet the 91-year-old who is the oldest cop in the US and has been protecting Arkansas for nearly 60 years
The idea of a Black police officer still comes off as a social oxymoron for many Black people in the United States owing to the decades of state-sanctioned victimization police departments across the country...
