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AfroAmerica Network invites Contributors to submit articles

May 16, 2011

AfroAmerica Network invites contributors to submit articles. AfroAmerica Network invites contributors to submit articles. Have you visited AfroAmerica Network lately?  If not, please do (http://www.afroamerica.net). You asked, we listened, and now we are answering. Several of our readers have expressed their interest in submitting articles to AfroAmerica Network to be posted in our pages on  [...]

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The Dilemma of Dictators: Part II

March 24, 2011

In our discourse titled the Dilemma of Dictators Part 1, we set a stage by contrasting a few African dictators with a figure from the Hebrew Bible. In this second part, we will continue by looking at the dilemmas faced by dictators and propose how to overcome them.  We focus on how dictators come to [...]

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The Dilemma of Dictators: Part 1

March 24, 2011

On October 8, 2010  AfroAmerica Network published a discourse titled  “A Case For General Paul Kagame: the President of Rwanda”.   Following the publication, AfroAmerica got a lot of comments from the readers. Some reproached AfroAmerica Network of having turned  pro-Kagame, others said we showed our bias against the regime  led by General Paul Kagame and [...]

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The Fallacies of Stephen Kinzer: Human Rights is A Tyranny

January 6, 2011

The fallacies of Stephen Kinzer: Human Rights is a Tyranny On December 31, 2010 The Guardian published an article by Mr Stephen Kinzer, a US journalist and author. In the article, titled “End human rights imperialism now” (see here) , Steven Kinzer attacks human rights groups, singling out the reputable Human Rights Watch for having [...]

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A Case for Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda

October 8, 2010

Painting: Diogenes searches for an honest man. Painting attributed to J.H.W Tischbein Here it goes again. Another discourse about Paul Kagame, the self styled President of Rwanda. Today I will call him President, not the Dictator, not the Tyrant, not the General President, just the President. Why? Because today’s discourse is not really mine. It [...]

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Is UN Atul Khare falsely accusing FDLR and Mai-Mai of rapes in DRC?

September 9, 2010

AfroAmerica Network has obtained a briefing report  given to the UN Security Council on September 7, 2010 by the UN Deputy Head of the U.N. Department of Peacekeeping  Operations ,  Mr. Atul Khare (see the report here). The briefing follows the trip in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to investigate the mass rapes [...]

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Suspect Absence of Museveni at Kagame’s Swearing

September 6, 2010

Photo: from left: Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Museveni’s son Muhozi, Janet Museveni (Museveni’s wife) Today, September 6, 2010, General Paul Kagame, the Rwandan dictator was sworn in as Rwandan President  for another  seven-year term. Several other African dictators attended the ceremony along with Paul Kagame’s Western advisors. One of the advisors, the American  pastor Rick Warren, [...]

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What Would Rwandan Paul Kagame Do?

August 11, 2010

By David O’Brian, AfroAmerica Network Editor.Cartoon: credit AgaculamamuKibundaAfroAmerica Network has been following with ambivalence the election process in Rwanda. Ambivalence because for one, in the absence of a serious challenge, Paul Kagame was a sure successor to himself, and most importantly because, despite our persistent criticisms of how Paul Kagame is leading Rwanda, AfroAmerice Network [...]

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Rwanda: the Charybdis and Scylla dilemma

June 12, 2010

Rwanda: the Charybdis and Scylla dilemma. by David O’Brian Recently I was reading an illustrated book on Rwanda titled “Au Rwanda. La Vie Quotidienne au Pays du Nil Rouge” by Omer Marchal,  ©Didier Hatier Bruxelles, 1987. With the help of a French speaking friend I will translate in English a little below. This what he [...]

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Kagame or the Degeneration of an African New Breed

May 29, 2010

16 Years and a month ago, on April 29, 1994, Prudence Bushnell, then US Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, called Colonel Theoneste Bagosora, a leading Rwandan military official, warning him of the displeasure of the United States with the ex-FAR on the on-going massacres of Tutsis. A few weeks earlier, just before the assassination [...]

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