New African articles from October 2008

New African archives from October 2008

Throwing missiles at own people.(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2008... I picked up a copy of New African for the first time in August 2004 at the Johannesburg International Airport (now O. R. Tambo International) in South Africa on my way to the United States to attend the National Republican Convention in New...

Wanted: African Media conglomerates.(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2008... The continued outcry about biased Western media coverage, NA June and July, raises two important points: first, of the need for Africa's own media conglomerates; and second, the role of that African media. Truly there is need for African...

How did they do it?(Your view and news)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2008... Just as Paul was stricken on the way to Damascus and his sins were taken away from him permanently, so was my ignorance with regards to Africa and its political history taken away when I came across New African. With the resoluteness of a...

Oh, the poor African farmer.(Your view and news)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2008... I have been contemplating on the above issue for many years. The launch of your New African Woman magazine has motivated me to bring the above to the forefront of my suggestions. Every politician, doctor, lawyer, teacher, dancer, artist, in...

Stella oye!(Your view and news)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2008... Certainly, the lady has revolutionary tendencies. Certainly, her savior has a claim. But to call him "the greatest African leader" (NA July/Aug) seems a bit much. Yes, the West bears a rabid hatred for the symbol of African freedom, but is that...

Secret societies.(Your view and news)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2008... I must say after careful study and scrutiny of the "secret societies" you mentioned in NA February, I have finally understood your line of thought (if I am not misplaced by my imaginations). I have amongst other things looked at the agenda...

Healer, heal thyself.(Baffour's Beefs)
October 1, 2008... It was Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who presided over the collapse of the Soviet Union, who said while still in office: "Governments that fail to adapt themselves to the impulses of society, put themselves in peril." In the end, Gorbachev must...

Africans became Christians long before Europeans.(HISTORY)
October 1, 2008... BLACK HISTORY MONTH It is often said that Europeans brought Christianity to Africa. Not so, says Akinyi Princess of K'Orinda-Yimbo. "Jerusalem long lost or not, Christianity is Afro-Orient, not European. Christianity was thriving in the...

The flying queen.(Olympics History)
October 1, 2008... Kenya's Pamela Jelimo, 18, the only athlete to remain unbeaten in the 2007-2008 athletic year, showed a commitment and maturity beyond her years in becoming the first female runner from Kenya to win an Olympic Games gold medal at the Beijing...

Greek philosophers who came to Africa to study.(History)
October 1, 2008... BLACK HISTORY MONTH Today many Africans trek to Europe and other places to study and work, but the reverse was true in the past when other nationals braced the peril of the seas and deserts to come to study in Africa. These included...

Will America's vote point to its future or its past?(History)
October 1, 2008... BLACK HISTORY MONTH 4 November 2008 will be a momentous day in black history if Barrack Obama wins the American presidential election. He would become the first African-American or non-European-descended person to rule America since the...

Pure genius!(Olympics History)
October 1, 2008... There can be no doubt that the Jamaican, Usain Bolt (left), at 6ft 5 ins tall and extravagantly extrovert, was the outstanding personality of the Beijing Games. In winning three gold medals (100m, 200m, 4x100m relay, he set three new world...

Master class.(Olympics History)
October 1, 2008... The much-anticipated clashes at the Beijing Olympic Games between he Ethiopians and Kenyans, or between individual Ethiopians, over the longer track distances did not materialise, simply because Kenenisa Bekele (photo) and his 22-year-old...

Editor's note.
October 1, 2008... The UK and the African Diaspora at large are celebrating Black History month. We hope you will find our cover story on gallant African Heroines insightful and inspirational. I am currently so into beautiful Alicia Key's new song and video...

New African Woman will inspire.(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2008... I am pleased to see a magazine that highlights the achievements, issues and challenges of African women. It is truly a motivation to see black women of all ages moving ahead regardless of the obstracles of race and gender. A magazine with such...

Well done!!(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2008... I am an avid reader of New African magazine and I just recently picked up the latest issue, which includes the New African Woman. I really love the fact you have chosen to focus on the African woman and provide a magazine that will highlight...

We welcome New African Woman.(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2008... I like you new magazine. I have though about a similar idea for a magazine after living in Nigeria, South Africa and travelling the African continent. I have attended women's conferences and I am always surprised at how little information there...

More on horizon for NA Woman.(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2008... I just read your latest editorial in the New African Woman magazine. It reminded me of a conversation I had with one of my Ghanaian friends. One of my side hustles is event/club photography, so we were on our way to the Bronx for a party....

A woman magazine is waste of resources.(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2008... I read New African regularly and was dismayed to see that precious resources would be wasted on such a frivolous venture as a magazine for women. I imagine its pages will be filled with silly and stupid junk about fashion, hair, modelling,...

Salute to Africa's Heroines: as part of the Black History Month (UK), New African Woman celebrates great women who have shaped our history and our admirable cultural values. Although we feature just a few here, Regina Jere-Malanda argues that these African heroines not only brought true meaning to the words courage, sacrifice and determination, but their immense legacy and tremendous fortitude should inspire and inform women of the future.(COVER STORY)
October 1, 2008... . Throughout our glorious history, Africa has prided itself on great, fearless women to the extent that -while the F word (feminism) is widely derided among both men and women on the continent -many feminist thinkers worldwide have often...

The black female in modern history: from South Africa, Khadija Sharife narrates how history has often reinforced exploitative actions and failed to dismantled barriers which leave women with less access to platforms that matter. Pertinently she asks. Was and is there a male-dominated influence with regards to the history is noted and transcribed?(COVER STORY)
October 1, 2008... In her debut book Female Chauvinist Pigs, Ariel Levy aptly states that women have absorbed the rhetorics of the male mentality/ideology as it relates to commoditised versions of the female identity, reducing half the world's population to a...

Homage to the African woman; Coz you are worth it! What role should women have in liberated Africa and in the movement for African liberation? There is no doubt that for many reasons the most controversial answers to this question will come from men, but African men nonetheless must take a position, writes Netfa Freeman.(MAN'S VIEWPOINT)
October 1, 2008... Viewed from the perspective of the African liberation movement, it is imperative for both women and men alike to have a firm position regarding women in society. This author begs the pardon of women for any unintended male chauvinism...

Say no to sexual objectification full stop! It is not positive stories of black women from the past and present that need to be told. Robert Cooper asks New African Women to champion the issue of self-worth and to help stop the oversexualisation of black women. "The world should say full stop to sexually objectifying our sisters," he writes.(MAN'S VIEWPOINT)
October 1, 2008... Definition: Sexual objectification is when a person is seen as a sexual object, when their sexual attributes as a sexual object, when their sexual attributed and physical attractiveness are separated from the rest of their personality and...

Move over Paris.(AFRICAN FASHION)
October 1, 2008... African talent and fashion design was at its apex at the Cape Town and Johannesburg fashion weeks. Move over New York, London and Paris-South Africa is where it's at. New African Woman was invited to both shows and brings you a glimpse of...

Black women drug mules in foreign prisons: although the misery wrought by narcotics is often thought to be borne by addicts, black women used as couriers anguishing in foreign jails are the forgotten victims of this pernicious trade. Stephen Williams went to meet Olga-leaven (below) one of the few people trying to help them out.
October 1, 2008... Olga Heaven is the founder director of Hibiscus, a female prisoner welfare project working in the UK with African and Caribbean women ensnared by the drugs trade. They are the couriers, invariably called mules, who carry the illicit drugs...

Women breaking the cycle of poverty: women's organisations in Africa are taking the issue of income generation through microcredit by its horns. As New African Woman's Zarina Geloo reports from Zambia, economically empowering women could not have come at a better time and is long over due.
October 1, 2008... Since 2000, microcredit institutions have been mushrooming in Africa, resulting in many success stories of poverty reduction among many women on the continent. It is hoped that, through campaigning for micro credit, more than 175 million...

The credit crunch; What it is, and how to survive it.
October 1, 2008... There is no denying; we are all feeling its tight pinch-first world, developing world and everyone else in between-we are all in the grip of the Credit Crunch. As Regina Jere-Malanda explores, its effects on Africans in the Diaspora will...

Stitched with history: African Textile and Fashion.(CULTURE)
October 1, 2008... African clothing is known for its colourful fabrics and distinctive designs. But few people take the time to examine the cultural significance of African cloth. New African Woman investigated and found this fascinating history, Next time you...

How the black struggle is interconnected.(History)
October 1, 2008... BLACK HISTORY MONTH A lot of struggle by blacks in the US and elsewhere had taken place before Barack Obama burst on the scene. The struggles have provided him with the platform upon which to stand and shoot for the American presidency....

How America silenced little Grenada.(History)
October 1, 2008... BLACK HISTORY MONTH 25 October marks the 25th anniversary of the American-led invasion of Grenada, one of the most significant events of the contemporary Caribbean. Clayton Goodwin, the then editor of The Caribbean Handbook, flew into...

Simply unbeatable!(Olympics History)
October 1, 2008... Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopia's long-distance queen, won gold in both 5,000m and 10,000m at the Beijing Olympic Games. Her tactics in the 10,000m were executed with a precision that was so beautiful as to be cruel. She let Elvan Abeylegesse, a...

Every genocide has its deniers; In 2004, the German Government finally acknowledged that the slaughter, a century earlier, of the Herero and Nama people in colonial Namibia was genocide. Not everyone, however, agrees.(Lest We Forget)
October 1, 2008... Over the last several years, The New York Times (NYT) has, in my opinion, been home to some of the most problematic, at times racist, coverage of African affairs. Its op-ed columnist, Nicholas Kristof, has misleadingly reported on the Darfur...

Africa, the fastest growing region.(The Interview)(Interview)
October 1, 2008... "There is a certain positivity in Africa that I haven't seen in the last 30 years. Africa is the fastest growing region in the world, and the general view is that this growth will continue for the foreseeable future," says Arnold Ekpe, the CEO...

Breakthrough at last!(Zimbabwe)
October 1, 2008... At the time of going to press, the people of Zimbabwe were waiting with bated breath for the contents of the historic deal signed by all three main parties in the country that had taken seven frustrating weeks to negotiate. On 11 September, a...

Who will carry on Leavy's legacy?(Zambia)
October 1, 2008... While the country stood united in mourning President Levy Mwanawasa, who died in Paris on 19 August, the politics of succession overshadowed his funeral as contenders and pretenders jostled to replace him. In the end, and amid controversy, the...

Methuselah's granddaughter.(Under the Neem Tree)
October 1, 2008... She said she was 432 years old! We laughed till we rolled off our chairs. But this old woman was right in her own way. She had been using the traditional annual festivals of her ethnic group to count the years. These festivals occur in cycles...

Turkey seeks stronger ties with Africa.(Turkey-Africa)
October 1, 2008... By inviting African heads of government to a Turkey-Africa Cooperation Summit in August. Turkey signalled its continuing desire to forge closer ties with the continent. While those high-level talks may have been fruitful, the Turkish-Africa...

A brand new Zain.(Endtail)
October 1, 2008... In August, in truly breathtaking operation, the telecoms company, Celtel, was rebranded as Zain. Stephen Williams was invited to Nairobi to witness the celebrations. It was a move expected for months and one that New African hinted at in...