"Democracy is about people power"

Democracy is about people power
This is a heavily edited version of a lecture by Jerry Rawlings, former president of Ghana, delivered at Witswatersrand University, South Africa last September on democratic reform in Africa.

Some 120 Killed in One of Iraq's Bloodiest Days
KERBALA/RAMADI, Iraq - Two suicide bombers killed 120 people and wounded more than 200 in the Iraqi cities of Kerbala and Ramadi on Thursday in Iraq's bloodiest day for four months.

Desai to head sports racism probe
The Human Sciences Research Council has by-passed the University of KwaZulu-Natal in funding Durban academic Ashwin Desai to conduct research into traces of racism in South African sport.

Activists debate reparations at NAACP conference
On Friday, Oct. 3, the Syracuse University National Association for the Advancement of Colored People hosted a "Conference on the Reparations and Peace Movement." The event, held in the Schine Underground, featured guest authors and activists Dr. Raymond Winbush and Sam E. Anderson, as well as SU professors William Wiecek and Arthur Flowers.

Travellers flock to South Africa
Travellers are flocking to South Africa, with more and more taking advantage of the wealth of outdoor pursuits the country offers.

Libya sends emergency medical aid to Central Africa
A Libyan cargo plane left here Wednesday carrying emergency medical assistance donated by the World Association of Islamic Appeal (AMAI) to the people of the Central African Republic.

AIDS's Ravaging of Africa Reaches Epidemic Proportions
Twenty-five years ago, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome — AIDS — was discovered. In that time, the retroviral cause of AIDS has become the most studied virus in human history.

Confirmed: PM Ariel Sharon is (At Least Clinically) Dead
Reliable sources indicate to Israel Insider that PM Ariel Sharon died at 11 am. Israeli media channels still report his condition is "very grave." Director of Hadassah Hospital Shlomo Mor-Yosef officially denies "rumors" of death and says Sharon's condition is "serious but stable."

Katrina: A Study - Black Consensus, White Dispute
Hurricane Katrina may mark a watershed in Black perceptions of the African American presence and prospects in the United States. "It could very well shape this generation of young people in the same way that the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King shaped our generation," said Prof. Michael Dawson, of the University of Chicago whose team conducted a survey of Black and white reactions to the disaster between October 28 and November 17, 2005. "It suggested to Blacks the utter lack of the liberal possibility in the United States," said Dawson, the nation's premier Black social demographer.

Hiding Behind Words: A Glossary of Dispossession

Spain cancels Bolivian debt as Morales tour starts

Chirac orders new French colonialism law

Cambodia's fledgling democracy under attack