Mobutu Sese Seko, the best definition of kleptocracy, nepotism and corruption of the highest order
Mobutu Sese Seko was born Joseph Désiré Mobutu on 14 October 1930. Mobutu was supported by Belgian government and USA to deposed the democratically elected government of nationalist Patrice Lumumba in 1960. Under the orders of Belgian and US, Mobutu installed the government that arranged for […]
Remembering Pan-Africanist and DRC’s independent leader, Patrice Lumumba
Patrice Émery Lumumba was born in 2 July 1925. He served as the first prime minister of independent Democratic Republic of Congo from June until September 1960. Ideologically, Patrice Lumumba was an African nationalist and Pan-Africanist. He led the Congolese National Movement (MNC) party from 1958 until […]
Bosco Ntaganda, the notorious nicknamed ‘terminator,’ was the M23 warlord
When it come to post colonial Africa, it hasn’t been easy for Africans living in mineral rich regions, as powerful elites want to compete with all available means to access the wealth including at the cost of human lives. The funding of rebels is one example to protect the ‘rights’ of multinational firms in a […]
Nyiragongo in Democratic Republic of Congo is the most dangerous volcano in the world
Nyiragongo is one of Africa’s most notable active volcanoes, having a crater in it’s deep summit which contains a lava lake which was active for half century to 1977, when it drained catastrophically, is the most dangerous volcano in the world. Nyiragongo displays steep slopes of stratovolcano with 1.2 km-wide summit crater. On January 10, […]
DR Congo ‘prepared’ to take part in vaccine testing: official
AFP Kinshasa (AFP) – The Democratic Republic of Congo is prepared to take part in testing of any future vaccine against the coronavirus, the head of the country’s taskforce against the pandemic said on Friday. “We’ve been chosen to conduct these tests,” said the head of the national biological institute, Jean-Jacques Muyembe. “The vaccine […]
Child Labour: One of the alternative to fossil fuel is contributing to stealing childhood dreams and education to hundreds of thousands children in Africa
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, thought her dream was stolen. “This is all wrong,” Thunberg said in one of her passionate speech. “I shouldn’t be here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you! You have stolen […]
While France ways of looting Africa is well known to most, UK ways of looting Africa is more subtle
United Kingdom is the fifth largest economy in the world. It’s a miracle for a small island with little or no natural resources to command that position in global economic power. Former French President Jacques Chirac once said if it weren’t for Africa, France would slide to third world countries. Matteo Salvini […]
Germans were paid to use electricity, in Africa the same is scarce to millions of people and interrupted to those who can access
People in Germany were essentially got paid to use electricity. Electricity prices in the country went negative for many customers-as in below zero for some days in 2017. Germany has invested over $200 billion in renewable power over the last few decades, that is wind and solar. During weekends when the major factories are closed […]
14 Civil Wars and Genocides that claimed an estimated of 14.7 million lives in Africa
To support war for a period of one year, you have to be super rich, because war is very expensive to maintain. Africa has been on the wrong side of history. These Civil Wars and genocides are engineered by human’s greed of power, control and wealth. Not only domestic elites wanted control over […]
The eleven most spoken native languages in Africa by population
With almost 3000 native languages spoken on the continent, Africa is the most multi-linguistic continent in the world and the most diverse in terms of culture and languages. We won’t be ranking languages that never originated from Africa like Portuguese, English, French etc., but the original African languages originated from Africans. Although many Africans speak […]