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African Liberation Day must engage in governance with moral and ethical leadership

Independent online (SA) 29 May 2023
Current conditions demand leaders who can reclaim African cultures with a civilisation capable of dominating economics, international finance, and scientific innovation. African leadership must be modelled on African culture which must lead the evolution of modernisation and civilisation in the world ... Karen Sandison/African News Agency(ANA).
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Deploying Arts, Culture as Tool for Poverty Eradication

This Day 25 May 2023
As part of efforts by the federal government to reduce poverty through women empowerment, the Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation (CBAAC), recently organised a two- day workshop/training programme on Deploying Arts and Culture as a Tool for Poverty Eradication through the Promotion of Visual Art; Painting, Sculpture and Pottery.
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A novel isn’t just a narrative, it’s an environment: a habitat that cultivates characters

The Irish Times 23 May 2023
Sean Ashton on Flann O’Brien, JG Ballard and Joseph Conrad, the writers who influenced his novel ... Rewilding ... So strongly does Conrad identify Kurtz with the river in the African interior, he is not just the object of Marlow’s mission, but the source from which an atavistic humanity flows back into civilisation, as though from some primeval past ... .
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The Kilwa Sultanate: The Island State That Dominated Medieval East Africa

Ancient Origins 16 May 2023
For centuries, this kingdom thrived as a hub of international trade, connecting the African continent to the wider Indian Ocean world ... https.//www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2020/09/this-abandoned-east-african-city-once-controlled-the-medieval-gold-trade.
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Calm heads required as ‘new Cold War’ intensifies

Mail Guardian South Africa 15 May 2023
It has been argued that there is a precedent arising from the judicial response to South Africa’s decision to not honour the warrant of arrest issued against the former president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, which binds the country to arrest Putin if he sets foot on South African soil.
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Egyptian archaeologist releases Cleopatra documentary amid race row with Netflix

The Arab Weekly 11 May 2023
CAIRO – ... Commentators in Egypt often decry campaigns among mostly African-American groups claiming the black origins of pharaonic civilisation. In 2009, a BBC documentary claimed that Cleopatra had African blood, an assertion that passed without incident. .
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Arresting Cultural Drift

This Day 10 May 2023
The Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation recently organised a two-day training programme for some selected students on African tradition that took place in Edo South ... on African tradition for some selected secondary school students numbering about 200.
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Ghana’s environmental devastation can be resolved through time-tested religious practices – Prof Awuah-Nyamekye

Ghana Business News 06 May 2023
Professor Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye ... Prof Awuah-Nyamekye was delivering his professorial inaugural lecture on the topic ... Matters Arising.” ... He, however, noted with worry the recent disregard for indigenous African traditional practices rooted in environmental consciousness and preservation, a situation he attributed to civilisation ... Source. GNA ....
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Netflix’s Cleopatra: Trouble is, it’s a “documentary”

Watani 03 May 2023
... it was black African ... “There have been numerous great black African civilisations, but Egypt was never one of them ... This is far from any ethnic racism, or from our full respect for African civilisations and for our brothers in the African continent to which we all belong,” he said.
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Not a fair-y tale

Gulf Daily News 03 May 2023
Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities secretary-general Dr Mostafa Waziri echoed the sentiment, adding that his concerns were “far from any ethnic racism, stressing full respect for African civilisations and for our brothers in the African continent that brings us all together.”.
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Who are the chosen people?

Jamaica Observer 01 May 2023
African people embracing religious systems that elevate the history, ancestors, and divinities of ... A majority of African people have forsaken their divinities, their ancestors, and the myths that were foundational in the building of the great African civilisations of antiquity.
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Our libraries are our identity, our lifeblood

Independent online (SA) 01 May 2023
Although the internet age has rendered libraries somewhat irrelevant to modern scholars, they house pertinent knowledge about extremely intelligent and sophisticated African civilisations that existed before our latter-day generations ... However, the colonial conquest entailed the eradication of African civilisations, wealth, knowledge and cultures.
photo: AP / Richard Drew
The Netflix logo is shown in this photo from the company's website, in New York, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Cleopatra was light-skinned, Egypt tells Netflix in row over drama

The Guardian 28 Apr 2023
But even before its release, Queen Cleopatra has already caused a storm of controversy in the north African nation ... Commentators in Egypt often decry campaigns among mostly African American groups claiming the origins of Egyptian civilisation.
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Egypt tells Netflix 'Cleopatra was light-skinned'

The New Arab 27 Apr 2023
But even before its release, "Queen Cleopatra" has already caused a storm of controversy in the North African nation ... Commentators in Egypt often decry campaigns among mostly African-American groups claiming the origins of Egyptian civilisation.
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Cleopatra was light-skinned, Egypt tells Netflix

Raw Story 27 Apr 2023
But even before its release, "Queen Cleopatra" has already caused a storm of controversy in the North African nation ... Commentators in Egypt often decry campaigns among mostly African-American groups claiming the origins of Egyptian civilisation.

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