As the world mourns one of South Africa's freedom fighters, Winnie Mandela, highlights some of her thought-provoking quotes that she would be remembered for. Below are the quotes: 1. "To those who oppose us, we say, 'Strike the woman, and you strike the rock'." – 1966 2. "Together, hand in hand, with our matches and …
Winnie Mandela in six quotes – BBC
AFP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was a firebrand activist who fought the apartheid regime in South Africa. She was far more militant than South Africa's first black president, her ex-husband Nelson Mandela. She also became a critic of the African National Congress (ANC), the party to which she was fiercely loyal throughout her political life. Here is …
Déjà vu as Strasbourg approves deportation of Nigerian drug trafficker By Clare Duffy
The European Court of Human Rights’s judgment in Ejimson v Germany (application no. 58681/12) has a whiff of Groundhog Day. For the second time in just over six months the court found that a Nigerian national convicted of drug-related crimes could not prevent deportation by relying on his relationship with his child. Crimes and deportation order Mr …
Martin Luther King Jr was a radical. We must not sterilize his legacy by Cornel West
The major threat of Martin Luther King Jr to us is a spiritual and moral one. King’s courageous and compassionate example shatters the dominant neoliberal soul-craft of smartness, money and bombs. His grand fight against poverty, militarism, materialism and racism undercuts the superficial lip service and pretentious posturing of so-called progressives as well as the …
When individuals are stronger than state institutions by Adewale Kupoluyi
William Easterly is a Professor of Economics at the New York University, who in a 2006 publication; “The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Harm and So Little Good”, enunciated that fragile states are plagued by two factors, namely: political identity fragmentation and weak national institutions …
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