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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The Carnegie Corporation-funded African Online Journal Archive is the first free-use scholarly content website to contain purely African material. The full-text repository will include journals containing important African research across a number of fields, including medicine, the social sciences and environment.

In October the International Peace Operations Association, IPOA, the trade association that lobbies for mercenaries, will meet in Washington DC for their 2008 Annual Convention. The theme of their annual conference is: Engaging AFRICOM
In Dogs of War: Back to Africa, David Isenberg asks:
Where does the future lie for the private military industry? (When) Iraq, [...]

It is essential that Africa and Africans resist being commanded by ethnic-European diktats, interests and standards. It has to be realised that it is a human trait for people to grab as much as they can for as little as they can.
A corollary of this is that the morally honourable Nelson Mandella’s magnanimity is taken [...]

Author of “Meji” - an African based fantasy novel - writes African/Yoruba-based fantasy and science fiction.

Foliofn Investments, an American firm has just introduced the first-ever screening tool to let investors build portfolios free of companies that support and profit from the genocide in Sudan.
Foliofn Investments launched in May of this year help customers automatically screen out companies on the Genocide Intervention Network’s “highest offenders” list of firms that operate [...]

PODCAST: The chief of the new U.S. military command for Africa [AFRICOM] says he will invite African military officers to serve at his headquarters, once the operation gets up and running. VOA Pentagon Correspondent Al Pessin interviewed the commander, General William Ward.
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