It has become incredibly difficult these days to tell between real and fake information on the Internet these days. However, just recently, several Robert Mugabe’s Quotes have caught my attention especially regarding the issue of gays and same sex marriages, a topic that always elicits vehement criticism from most of Africa when it is brought up. One of them apparently quoted Mugabe asking The President of the United States to divorce Mitchell and come to Africa and marry him if he indeed thinks people of the same sex marrying each other is right. Another told of how Mugabe wondered how someone leaves a smooth Superhighway only to take a ride inside a sewage. One even quoted him stating that even Satan is not   gay, that he approached and seduced Eve and not Adam. Other quotes are unpublishable on this forum, but all of them according to me make absolute sense. Indeed since I started seeing these quotes, I have come to completely agree that Mugabe is Africa...

Everybody now seems to agree that yes indeed slavery and colonialism happened, yes indeed the white man has treated the black as subhuman and that now it’s time to forgive forget and move on, as Wangari Maathai rightly put it in regard to colonialism. I tend to accept that too. But every time I am almost forgetting, then I come across another story, either carried by the world media, or featured by Wikipedia, or even sometimes by accident in my usual Googling, that yet reminds me that back then it was as   horrible.  This time, it was a story carried by BBC reminding everybody about Ota Benga, the unfortunate boy from Congo of pygmy origin who was very unlucky to be captured by an American hobbyist and taken to America to show the rest of the white world his missing link between apes and them. He was also apparently mistaken for a cannibal because his teeth were filed sharp in a ritual ceremony, which was then very common in Africa. Because of that Ota Benga was ca...

The most important black man of the twentieth century in Africa must be Patrice Lumumba. History will probably never tell us what went of him. But we know a few things. That he was the first prime minister of Congo among them. You know, when you wield so much power and support from people, you start to kind of achieve the opposite effect on the people who think they would rather wield the power and support themselves. They will start to get scared of you, this being scared turns to horror and finally desperation as these people try to do anything in their reach to pull you down. The same story is what became of Lumumba. After negotiating independence for Congo in Brussels, he achieved a political status in his backyard that no black man had achieved ever. These were the days of the Cold war and everyone somehow alligned to one of the two aides even if it served him no purpose. Lumumba happened to like the east better. Quite predictably making enemies of the West. When Lumumba was capt...

When recently I read about a famous American televangelist warning his followers not to visit Kenya because the towels have Aids, I could not help but wonder. This was met with anger by Krnyans and Africans on social media, to no suprise. What is more worrying is that people know its untrue but somehow still choose to believe. The problem is not new though, and the televangelist just represents the fears of many people mostly outside Africa. But the problem runs deep to the days of the transatlantic trade and the effect it had to the people of color. Somehow, when a lie is repeated for too long until the masses believe it. This problem had been tackled by many, some even paying the ultimate price, with their lives, but it refuses to die. These myths and misconceptions refuse to simplty go away without a fight. The truth however is that the world has made great strides to the right direction a despite the pockets of hate and disharmony still thriving among us. What my people can ...

   I do not  think calling Africa's colonial masters Wolfs would offend them. Because it was all a story of greed and competition while all that time regarding Africans subhuman. I will look unforgiving and not at par with the prese nt by saying I still feel the scramble and partition of Africa was injustice, but I risk it. Jomo Kenyatta the First Kenyan president and Pan Africanist sums its up diligently in his book 'Facing Mount Kenya'. When the white man came, we had the land and he had the Bible. We closed our eyes to pray and when we opened our eyes, he had the land and we had the Bible. The story of the use of religion to colonize is well too common. And am not only talking of the British occupied land back then as was Kenyatta's situation. The French in West Africa, The Portuguese in South Africa, The Belgians in Congo, The Germans and every other power used quite the same trick. Send Christians first before occupation. But why would one do that?...

The story of non-Africans visiting Africa in the hope of finding wealth was not introduced by the Europeans. In fact many years before, People from Asia and Far East were visiting Africa many hundreds of years before. The first Europeans who visited Africa were the Portuguese who took back with them stories of immense wealth in Africa both in its natural resources and slaves. In fact the first Portuguese who came to Africa took back with him two black captives to the King as a gift and of course as evidence of his setting foot in the black continent. But none had a greater effect to the stability or lack of the same to Africa than the mass arrival of Europeans in the late 19th century. Most of the Africa we know today, we must admit, was completely different and is as it is because of the arrival of the Europeans and subsequent partition of Africa after the Berlin Conference. As a matter of fact apart from the Ancient Kingdom of Ethiopia and the freed slaves state of Liberia, every...

Awsome pride of lions photo Michael "Nick" Nichols, British photographer tracked the pride of big cats for six months before capturing this stunning shot, which stretches all the way to the horizon and includes a dramatic African sky. Reminds me of the Man Eaters of Tsavo  The BBC