On Wednesday evening July 25th, Marcia and I attended the 2012 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab production of the play “Africa Kills Her Sun”, or “Afrika Inaua Mwangaza Wake” in Kiswahili. The play had a cast of three African actors and one American actor, who passionately expressed the plight of the Ogoni people in Nigeria, under the dictator Sani Abacha whose ruthless regime was noted for widespread corruption, human rights abuses, and the suppression of free speech.
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Sub-Saharan Africa Mali: Democracy Hangs in the Balance “Unless action is taken immediately Sharia will rule” In my July 10, 2012 Commentary “Mali: A Democracy Destabilized by the Arab Spring”, I noted that the country was in deep trouble, and on the verge of being overrun by Islamists wanting to institute Sharia, the brutal Islamic [...]
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I support SAFE: The Somali and American Fund for Education. In their most recent newsletter they discuss the construction of two new classrooms. Please read their newsletter which you can view by visiting this link:
SAFE Newsletter PDF.
Commentary on Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa: Obama’s Focus on Agriculture “Sustainable development, key to Africa’s food supply” I have visited over twenty-three sub-Saharan African countries since 1970, and just returned from another trip Kenya. Regardless of reports otherwise, food shortages and child malnutrition are still important issues in most of the villages. Sub-Saharan Africa has [...]
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Ambassador John Price will be a featured guest on Republicans Abroad Radio on July 11, 2012. The show will air at 10 a.m. ET. Listen to the live online broadcast here: http://asx.abacast.com/wsradio-studiob-32.asx.(Note: this will download a file “wsradio-studiob-32.asx” to your computer. Simply double click the file, and your media player should open the stream and [...]
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Commentary on Sub-Saharan Africa Mali: A Democracy Destabilized by the Arab Spring “UNESCO World Heritage Sites are being destroyed by Islamist militants” The Republic of Mali has been destabilized as a result of the Arab Spring revolution. Tuareg mercenary fighters returning from Libya brought with them a large cache of arms, and joined “Le Mouvement [...]
Read MoreIt was in the early 1960′s when the independence movement in sub-Saharan Africa was unfolding, and Pan-Africanists promised food on everyone’s table. These young African idealists were seeking to build governing institutions; creating jobs, trade and global market access. With poor economic decisions some of these countries were beginning to fail, and financial aid, loans [...]
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