African Unity at 50: Integration is the only way

By Samia Nkrumah (Interviewed by Billie Adjoa McTernan)

Samia Nkrumah

SAMIA NKRUMAH – CHAIR OF THE CONVENTION PEOPLE’S PARTY, GHANA/PHOTO©ALFREDO CALIZ/PANOS-REA

By rejecting continental unity Africa is depriving itself of wealth and autonomy, says Nkrumah’s daughter.

Pan-Africanism is crucial for our development on the continent and for the restoration of the dignity of Africa. Continue reading

Courageous Congolese and Rwandans dent Kagame’s image at Oxford!

BK Kumbi

Leaflet distributed at Oxford University on Saturday 18th May 2013

Leaflet distributed at Oxford University on Saturday 18th May 2013

“…if we must die, we want to get there standing up, albeit with eggs or water bottles as sole weapons.”

What happened at Oxford on Saturday 18th May should be read in the light of the mobilization that began on the internet to sign the petition against the Rwandan president’s visit to the Said Business School. It is only logical. More than 5000 people from around the world decided to say that crime cannot forever be praised and rewarded. Continue reading

Don’t Be Blind This Time: Take action and play your part.

By BK Kumbi

Displaced people in North Kivu

Displaced people in North Kivu

“Kagame has facilitated all this.”

Paul Kagame must speak in front of the International Criminal Court, not at Oxford.

He is a murderer, a thief, a liar.

Is it shocking that 1152 women are raped every day in the DR Congo?

Is it shocking that 0.5 million women have been raped these last 16 years in DR Congo? Continue reading

Help the British police identify criminals among Rwanda Day participants

During a protest of mainly Congolese staged on 28.11.12 at the diplomatic representations of Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo in London days after the rebel group M23 had occupied Goma.

During a protest of mainly Congolese staged on 28.11.12 at the diplomatic representations of Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo in London days after the rebel group M23 had occupied Goma.

This is an apparent appeal that emerges from the correspondence that organizers of the protest against Rwandan president Paul Kagame at the occasion of Rwanda Day UK planned for Saturday May 18th have exchanged with the British police in recent days. Continue reading

Paul Kagame: a false definition of success

Rwandan president Paul Kagame

Rwandan president Paul Kagame

On May 18 (2013), President Paul Kagame is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at an Oxford University Business Conference. It is high time, however, that this image of international “success” is exposed for what he truly is. He is the very embodiment of evil and cruelty, and the world allows it because victors write the history books even if the history they write is a lie. Kagame built his pseudo-history on guilt and shame and his “success” off of the blood and lives of at least 6 Million Rwandan and Congolese humans. Continue reading