Tag: politics
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WHAT’S HAPPENING… IN TIGRAY
In 2020, whilst the events in the US rode roughshod over everything else, political or otherwise, around the globe, there was a conflict brewing in the East of Africa, the horn of the continent, in Ethiopia, between the Tigray tribe and its federal government. So what is happening in Tigray? Let’s take a short walk…
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46. NOT JUST ANOTHER WEDNESDAY
I didn’t think we’d make it to today without further incident. Three Wednesdays before this, the world witnessed an insurrection incited by the president of the United States. The Wednesday after that, said president was being impeached in a most bi-partisan effort and this Wednesday, a new president has been successfully inaugurated as the next…
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GRENFELL
I lived in a tower block much like Grenfell Tower when I first came to London, with my mom and sister, and several relatives coming and going. It was a squeeze at times but we lived there for over a decade in Kilburn, a half hour from Grenfell Tower by bus. If I looked out…
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REFUGEE
Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a…
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FERGUSON
Last week whilst watching the news about the on goings in Ferguson Missouri, someone asked me why I cared about any of it. Her reasons; I don’t live in America, I am not American, so why should I care about what is going on there. How she walked away unscathed I don’t know, but my…
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The World Is A Mess
It’s not often that I agree with Donald Trump, actually I never do, but he tweeted something poignant the other day that summed up our feelings on the global situation right now. “We are now at a time perhaps more than ever when the world needs GREAT leadership” Truer words have never been tweeted. In…
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Ms Lewinsky
After over a decade of silence, in an essay titled “Shame and Survival” in the June 2014 issue of Vanity Fair, Monica Lewinsky is finally speaking out about the nightmare that became her life in the wake of a trial that put her sex life on blast. Where were you in 1998 when the most powerful man in…
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Bring Back Our Girls
Last week, at midnight, Islamist extremist invaded a boarding school in Chibok, Bornu State, the north-eastern region of Nigeria and kidnapped more than 200 girls and young women. Some of them were recalled to sit their exams after schools had been closed for weeks due to security threats in this area. The terrorist group Boko Haram, whose name translates…
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Nelson Mandela.
Today we mourn the passing of a Legend. At five years old I was too young to understand what Nelson Mandela’s fight to emancipate South Africa from the apartheid regime that enshrined the racist ideology already in existence and institutionalised white supremacy, meant for my generation. But as I got older, my parents, who lived through…