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Somali-Canadian Youth in danger of Radicalization?
A Sign of Failed integration


Yohi Mersha

Somali- Torontonians are worried sick about the five young Somali-Canadians, who disappeared this October without informing their families. What is more gripping is the indication that these young men may have fled the country to join hands with Al-Shabab, which is believed to be the leading Islamist and clan militia combating the transitional government in Somalia. Read More



Obama's war

There Is No Such Thing As A “Just” War---Period

Larry Pinkney

War is not peace and there is no such thing as a “just” war. A short while ago Barack Obama accepted the so-called Nobel “Peace” prize by attempting to justify and rationalize the corporate / military ‘American’ empire’s bloody wars and subterfuge in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Honduras, Haiti, and elsewhere. Read More


Tricky Business: Foreign Agricultural Investment in Africa

By Jovi Otite


The fashionable trend of purchasing vast acres of land from poor African nations such as Ethiopia, The Congo and Sudan is fast mutating to one of the greatest nightmares of the African farmer. To date, lots of capital rich nations are flocking to Africa to purchase land for farming with the pretext of coming under the umbrella of the foreign investor. Read More



Could your Name Make or Break your Resume?

By Kelly Green

While working on increasing your employability focusing on writing a resume that would stand out, one factor you might not consider to work for or against you is your name.A recent research, however, reveals that your name might play a crucial role in granting you that long awaited interview call. Read More


Popular candidates kept off ballot in Haiti

By G.Dunkel

Ever since 1990 when the people of Haiti turned an election into a movement and voted en masse for Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the Haitian bourgeoisie and its imperialist backers have been leery of elections.They have used military coups to reverse the results of elections they didn’t like. Read More


No Consumer‘s Servitude left behind-
Wal-Mart’s Successful Community Organizing


By Lenore Daniels (ph.d)

Wal-Mart executives cultivated support among lack city council members and church leaders in Chicago, according to Anmol Chaddha in Colorlines, “for building two stores…each about the size of ten football fields.” Wal-Mart’s strategy, Chaddha writes, is to bring “Wal-Mart to the ‘hood’ - touting not just lower prices but also racial equity.” Read More


Societal and Ethical Disintegration and the Common Man

By Ifeanyi Udensi

An interlocution into the social and ethical state of the society tends to reveal a deep-rooted origin of how the societal norms and dictates came to bear on today’s world. Suffice to say that the society as we know it today has undergone spiralling and reformatory changes over many centuries. Read More

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The Nigeria we Knew

By Gaga Ekeh

My earliest memories of Nigeria are in Kaduna. I cannot remember much from Kaduna except the mystic feeling of harmattan and the sense of the Sahel.  My family soon moved to Ibadan and there my memories become very vivid--of Fela Anikulakpo Kuti and Obasanjo and Yaradua the first and FESTAC.  I remember Zombie and goodie-goodie. Kingsway and Leventis. Read More

 



 


 
 
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