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I remember years ago speaking with a brother of mine from another mother about Africa's numerous problems and how we, as a people can dig ourselves out of the messes we have created ourselves and inherited from our forefathers and colonial masters...

We bathe in an African presence Of sparkling soft carpets from Timbuktu Moorish cushions,

One of the fundamental pillars of a civilised society is its preservation and promotion of the arts. It serves as a continuity of the narratives of the cultures and traditions of the society, while serving as a tool for education and communication. The society that fails to provide a level playing field for the arts and the artists will eventually lose its vitality in ensuring beauty and the inspiring of grace within its people, which are foundational devices in the promulgation of civilisation as an ideal....

In Afghanistan, the civil war that enmeshed the Soviet army through the 1980s and caused more than 1 million deaths was largely a religious rebellion by Muslims opposing Westernisation. The mujahedeen (holy warriors) were attacking not only their communist government but also modern life.

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Having listened to President Obama's 28 May West Point speech on foreign policy I realized that he is still in love with the old American nationalistic doctrine of US “exceptionalism”...

The Russian Program – It has been the fate of the Jews in century after century, nation after nation, to suffer killing and cruelty at the hands of Christians....

Today is the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, a day set aside by the United Nations to commemorate the innocent children of Palestine who are victims of aggression by the Israeli forces and by extension the lives of all those children who are caught in similar circumstances.

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Recently Sizzla, the Jamaican-born reggae artiste called on Africans to stop using the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade as a scapegoat for our current miseries...

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In India, the Muslim conquest of Sind was master minded by the governor of Iraq and effected by his commander Muhammad bin Qasim in Ad 712. Qasim's instructions were to “bring destruction on the unbelievers, and to invite and induce the infidels to accept the true creed, and belief in the unity of God ”....