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Specifically, black politics must be concerned with restructuring affirmative action with regards to black people; pushing a pan-African agenda that works to prevent the spread of AIDS and avert the destabilization of the African continent; and creating independent financial institutions that reinvest and redistribute wealth throughout the Diaspora. Moreover, black elites must devote themselves to the education of black youth in order to provide an alternative voice to the onslaught of negativity unleashed by a profit-driven media...
...across the continent - and in the process created an unlikely cultural force. Since the launch of the program three weeks ago, millions of viewers have tuned in every evening, making Big Brother one of the most popular television programs ever produced in Africa. Three decades after the concept of Pan-Africanism fizzled out, satellite television is working where liberation philosophy did not: connecting and modernizing the world's poorest continent. "There is an integrating aspect to television," says David Mafabi, director of political affairs at the moribund Uganda-based Secretariat of the Pan-African Movement. "Shows like this...
...members of the Pan-African Liberation Movement staged a take-over of Mass. Hall, demanding that the University sell its investments in the Gulf Oil Corporation, which they alleged was supporting the Portuguese colonial regime in Angola at that time...
...some of NEPAD's requirements. If African countries want to qualify for Western aid, for instance, they must show they abide by principles of good governance, rule of law, democracy and sound economic management. Yet as Gaddafi told the Durban delegates: "We have democracy of our own style and patterns. We accept assistance, but we refuse conditions." Gaddafi would still like the African Union to be based in Libya instead of Addis Ababa, the OAU's Ethiopian headquarters, and he is reported to be building a palatial meeting hall in Tripoli for the pan-African parliament that is envisaged...
...known whether Touma? walked upright - or how the discovery fits into the pattern of human evolution. SOUTH AFRICA More Perfect Union African leaders launched the African Union, which they hope will assist in averting war, reducing poverty and strengthening the continent's new democracies. The successor to the failed Organization of African Unity is based on the European Union. Like its model, the A.U. plans institutions such as a pan-African parliament, a court of justice, a bank and even a single currency at some point in the future. MIDDLE EAST School's Out Israeli police officers seized documents...