Athletic Girl Lunga from Africa


Athletic Girl ‘Lunga’ from the Musical ‘Africa Africa’ on “Jensen”, a Dutch TV show.

Nokulunga Buthelezi began contorting as a baby in Johannesburg, South Africa and now her talent for twisting into impossible positions has landed the 18-year-old a starring role in the £4.2 million ($8.4M) extravaganza production of Afrika! Afrika! Known as Lunga, or more dazzlingly, Snake Girl, the tiny girl with big eyes and a clever nature has mesmerized the two million people who paid to see her in the show’s two year run in Germany. Snake Girl credits a “snake” gene that appears in her family every couple generations for her wondrous talents.

Philadelphia Police Beating

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Sharpton Chimes In On Philly Cop Beating

The Rev. Al Sharpton called a videotaped police beating of three shooting suspects in Philadelphia “worse than Rodney King,” prompting the city’s police commissioner to chide anyone “fanning flames … from afar.”

The civil rights activist made the comments Thursday as he interviewed the mother of one of the suspects on his radio show.

Thirteen police officers have been taken off street duty as police investigate the television news footage, according to Lt. Frank Vanore, a police spokesman. The video shows officers kicking, punching and beating the three black men during a traffic stop Monday.

“I’ve not seen anything like that since Rodney King, and it’s worse than Rodney King, and we cannot allow our community to be under siege,” Sharpton said. “We’ve got to stop this nonsense in our community, acting like you got to be a certain level black to be treated within the law.”
Full Article : cbsnews.com

Global Food Crisis: Hunger Plagues Haiti and the World

Global Food Crisis: Hunger Plagues Haiti and the World
Consumers in rich countries feel it in supermarkets but in the world’s poorest ones people are starving. The reason - soaring food prices, and it’s triggered riots around the world in places like Mexico, Indonesia, Yemen, the Philippines, Cambodia, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Guinea, Mauritania, Egypt, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Peru, Bolivia and Haiti that was once nearly food self-sufficient but now relies on imports for most of its supply and (like other food-importing countries) is at the mercy of agribusiness.

Biofuels starving our people, leaders tell UN
The leaders of Bolivia and Peru have attacked the use of biofuels, saying they have made food too expensive for the poor. Speaking at the United Nations, the Bolivian president, Evo Morales, said the increased use of farmland for fuel crops was causing a “tremendous increase” in food prices.

Food price crisis under spotlight at UN conference
More than 3 000 delegates from 193 nations will descend on the Ghana capital, Accra, on Sunday for five days of United Nations talks on globalisation — against a backdrop of rising food prices and an economic slowdown.

Zimbabwe and the Power of Propaganda: Ousting a President via Civil Society
In 2002, America’s key democracy manipulating organ the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) played a vital role in supporting the temporary ousting of Venezuela’s democratically elected President Hugo Chavez, so given their current interests in Zimbabwe it is critical to ask two questions: “what are their reasons for interfering in Zimbabwe’s affairs, and secondly, should progressive activists be concerned about these interventions?”

African Gov’ts Reject U.N. Intervention in Zimbabwe
Despite mounting pressure from some major Western powers to intervene in Zimbabwe’s electoral crisis, U.N. involvement remains a distant possibility. At the U.N.-African Union (EU) Summit held here Wednesday, both the United States and Britain argued that a U.N. presence in Zimbabwe was critical to break the deadlock, but their position failed to win over most of the AU members.

TRADE-AFRICA: EU Embarks on EPA Charm Offensive
After attracting a steady flow of criticism for its handling of trade talks with Africa, the European Commission has gone on something of a charm offensive lately. It has, for example, launched a website dedicated to highlighting any favourable comments that are made about the economic partnership agreements (EPAs) it is negotiating with some of the world’s poorest countries.

Exposed: the great GM crops myth
Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis

A Cellphone’s Missing Dot Kills Two People, Puts Three More in Jail

Zimbabwe and the new Cowardly Colonialism

Zimbabwe and the new Cowardly Colonialism
The media reports about Zimbabwe’s elections present them as a clash between the ‘evil’ Mugabe and the ‘heroic’ Tsvangirai, an electoral battle for Zimbabwe’s soul. Mugabe is depicted as having brought Zimbabwe to its knees, causing widespread poverty and enforcing terror and repression, and Tsvangirai is discussed as the harbinger of a dignified ‘revolution’ against Mugabeism (2). This is a fantasy. It ignores the key role played by Western governments and financial institutions in using sanctions, tough diplomacy and the proxy interventionists of the South Africa government and the African Union to isolate and harry Zimbabwe over the past decade. Such self-serving external meddling has contributed to Zimbabwe’s economic crisis - and it has dangerously distorted the political dynamics inside Zimbabwe and elsewhere in the south of Africa.

Resource-hungry India seeks to increase its economic ties with Africa
From scouting for diamonds in the deserts of Botswana to signing oil deals with Sudan and sending peacekeepers to volatile Congo, India is busy trying to match China’s ever-growing clout in mineral-rich Africa and secure energy resources for its booming economy.

Senegal plans “African Renaissance” monument
Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade launched construction of an “African Renaissance” monument on the continent’s westernmost tip late on Thursday, which he said would stand taller than the Statue of Liberty in the United States.

A Brief History of Human Sex
Birds do it, bees do it, humans since the dawn of time have done it. But just how much has the act really changed through the millennia and even in past decades? Are humans doing it more? Are we doing it better? Sort of, say scientists. But it’s how people fess up to the truth about their sex lives that has changed the most over the years.

The Last Rebels of the Caribbean: Garifuna Fighting for Their Lives in Honduras
Enclosing the commons – the historical process of fencing off land which had previously been in the public domain, for private use – is perhaps one of the most blatant expressions of the fundamental criminal nature of the capitalist state. Today it’s the voracious neo-liberal model which stalks the last pockets of community-held global territory for privatization - from Chiapas, Mexico, to the deep Amazon, to the Garifuna coast of Honduras, leaving no stone unturned.

Congo: How Rich Whites Caused Five Million Blacks to Die
Five million Congolese have died in the last decade or so in order to make billionaires even richer. If there were such a thing as international law, this holocaust in the Democratic Republic of Congo should have already resulted in the public hanging of hundreds of the world’s richest men - and rightfully so. If the Nuremberg laws that sent ten Nazis to the gallows for crimes against humanity and peace were applied to the Congo, we could quite easily find the names of the defendants in the columns of the world’s financial press - the richest men on the face of the earth. These men conspired to murder millions so that there would be constant war in Central Africa - but no law to inhibit theft on the grandest industrial scale imaginable.

China still a small player in Africa
iroze Manji argues that in comparison to Europe and the US, China in Africa is still a small player. While keeping an eye out on China, Africans should not be distracted from paying attention to the West’s continued exploitation of the continent including the use of military might to protect its economic interests.

Iran to OPEC: Stop Oil Sales in Dollars

The video that sparked riots in South Africa this week

South Africa stunned by echoes of apartheid past after video emerges of white students humiliating black cleaners

By IAN EVANS
February 28, 2008

South Africa has come face to face with its apartheid past when a “shocking” video emerged of white university students force-feeding and racially humiliating five poor black cleaners.

The four students are heard referring to the old “Boer” college way of life during the footage, which saw the elderly workers being made to drink bottles of beer, run races, play rugby and then kneel and eat meat which had been urinated upon.

News of the video yesterday sparked rioting at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, once the Afrikaans heartland of the Orange Free State.
Full Article : dailymail.co.uk

Racist video sparks outrage in South Africa

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UPDATE: MARCH 02, 2008

» Race row students are unrepentant
Mass protest planned over video ‘prank’ that humiliated black staff at South African university

» Never mind ‘the other’ – we are all to blame
We are all at fault. No matter how sincere and heartfelt our celebrations of the “miracle of democracy” and the “rainbow’s multi-hued splendour”, it is a sad fact that we did little to eradicate the racism that is so deeply entrenched in the national psyche.

» This is the real South Africa
White and black are shocked to discover how little the country has changed

Classical Harmonica player Philip Achille wows …

Classical Harmonica player Philip Achille wows the classical crowd playing this instrument, a future jazz harmoncia legend. This video of champion Achille was viewed on television from the ROYAL ALBERT HALL on BBC2 home of Classical Star. Philip still has lessons (tutorials) taught by Jim Hughes a harmonica legend as a session musician and in the school of players like, tommy Rielly, shellist, Douglas Tate, Larry Adler and Stevie Wonder.HARMONICA, BLUES, Chromatic Harmonica ,Classical Harmonica, Jazz, Harmonica Artist, British Film music, Achille Philip, BBC 2 2007 Proms London Larry Adler, The harmonica playing was accompanied by a full orchestra. Philip Achille (based in London) has experience playing the chromatic harmonica (mouth organ) in many music genres, Jazz Classical Blues and Irish.

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Muslim Black slavery

Muslim Black slavery - Islam slave history of Black Africa

Dr. John Henrick Clarke Excerpts

An analysis of the history of Africa

Dr. John Henrik Clarke Interview



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