Category: Politics
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HONORING A KING… #MLK
HONORING A KING… #MLK How, do you Honor a King! Not a monarchy but A true peoples King, a civil rights King! How do you thank someone who fought for your dream before you could even close your eyes! How do you account for a man who changed your life and those of your fellow…
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War According To Soldiers!!!
War According To Soldiers!!! A journalist friend of mine once told me that the media only covers “what’s new”!! Thus, since wars have been here for ages, i was not surprised that most of us are not very well informed about “wars” and their impact to those who get caught in them. With everything going…
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Origins and Foundations of Inequality Among Men
Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origins and Foundations of Inequality Among Men (1755) scandalised many eighteenth-century readers in its evisceration of reason and civilisation. It contains at its core the argument that the establishment of political society, coupled with the advancement of reason, has served to corrupt natural man. Initially independent, contented, simpleminded, and innocuous in relation to…
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AFRICA, WHO ARE YOUR PROPHETS OF CHANGE?
Ideology died on November 10th 1989, under the weight of hammers and pick-axes, with the fervour of 44 years of rage and the assassins dressed in stone-washed jeans. As we all watched the Berlin Wall collapse and hands meeting across the divide, we never thought the price of freedom was the death of ideology. Thus…
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Intra-trade in Africa
Right now, Africa is the poorest continent in the world. Roughly 2-3% of global trade goes through Africa. The world GDP in 2011 was 69.6 trillion dollars, and yet that of the entire continent of Africa was 1.9 trillion dollars in 2011. This is 2.7% of global trade (IMF). How does an entire continent with…
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African Holocaust
The Herero and Namaqua Genocide in Namibia. April being genocide awareness and prevention month, The African Perspective has been running various stories with the goal of highlighting a number of sensitive situations in the motherland and the effects of wars and genocide. As the month comes to a conclusion, we would like to bring to your attention, the…
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Why We Don’t Need A Black History Month!
For those pulled by the title, the simple answer is that every second of everyday should be African/black history day. Here on TAP magazine, we always make sure that’s the case. To our regular comrades, we have been getting overwhelming requests to do a piece about Black History Month and to be frankly honest, I’ve…