“Nelson Mandela used his personal charm… to mould our widely diverse communities into an emerging multicultural nation.” - FW de Klerk
Mr de Klerk was awarded the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize along with Mr Mandela. In 1994 de Klerk, the former South African president handed over power to Mandela to become the country’s first black president. [...]

Another case of prejudice against Nigerians in the US and everywhere has been established against a top official of the US government, Roger Adams, a US government Attorney who prepares presidential pardons for US President George W. Bush, for describing Nigerians as “not very honest,” Empowered Newswire, a US-based Nigerian news agency reports on Wednesday.
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Africa researcher Emira Woods of Washington’s Institute for Policy Studies has been following the Liberian leader’s efforts to raise conditions for African rulers to achieve power and govern their people through democratic means. She points out that Mrs. Sirleaf is one of a growing number of African voices to speak out for the people of [...]

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South African writer Henrietta Rose-Innes has won this year’s £10,000 Caine prize for the best short story in English by an African writer. Rose-Innes, whose story Poison is a haunting vignette of the “new” South Africa, received the prize at a ceremony last night at Oxford University’s Bodleian Library.
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