Word: africaã
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...Africa??s poverty problems will only be solved when African economies are restructured. Since colonization, these economies have been set up to extract resources from the continent, minimizing both the cost to foreign governments and corporations and the compensation for Africans from whose land comes the minerals, oil, diamonds, and other valuable products. The only real solution to African poverty is to divert the resources of the continent and the wealth they generate back to the people of the continent. This is where our voices are needed...
...befitting to his motives, therefore, that he writes that the chief aim of PANAFEST is “To establish the truth about the history of Africa?? instead of “To establish the truth about the history of Africa and experience of its people, using the vehicle of African arts and culture” (emphasis added). In fact, the Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival, PANAFEST, is primarily an Arts and Culture festival, according to , and as such other festivals it promotes a united spirit among its participants—in this case, “Africans...
...establish the truth about the history of Africa?? is Goal #1 of Panafest and enticement enough to compel your correspondent, a gadfly of colonial history and sensitive about sweeping, Pan-African pronouncements of historical truth, to hightail it to this one-time capital of Britain’s Gold Coast Colony (Cape Coast, Ghana) where the confab is gathering...
...acronym, but unfailingly capitalized by Ghanaian journalists—is a sordid affair that mixes tedious, egotistic African government types with local Rastafarians conniving to profit off of stupid tourists with the mushy, self-righteous black American tourists themselves, coming “back to Africa?? to rediscover their roots...
...American studies, Franklin’s extracurricular profile rivals that of even the most overactive Harvard students: actor, Kuumba singer, a leading member of the Black Men’s Forum, founder of the California Club, and first class marshal. He has also spent time abroad studying in South Africa??where he hopes eventually to live—and has earned a language citation in Urdu-Hindi...