Ways to Help Africa: Clear From Dictators

Response to Pr. Jendayi Frazer:  US President should not shake bloody hands of dictators Jendayi E. Frazer, former US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs proposed  ways to help Africa in the article titled “Four Ways to Help Africa”, published in the Wall Street Journal on August 25, 2009.  One of the four ways…

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Au-delà de la Politique Ethnique et de la Peur: Hutus, Tutsis et l’identité ethnique au Rwanda

Au-delà de la Politique Ethnique et de la Peur: Hutus, Tutsis et l’identité ethnique au Rwanda Félicien Kanyamibwa, Ph.D. New Jersey, Etats-Unis d’Amérique, le 19 Mai 2009. INTRODUCTION Quinze ans après que la petite nation du Rwanda ait connu l’une des pires tragédies de l’histoire moderne, plusieurs problèmes restent en suspens. Alors que la plupart…

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Beyond Ethnic Politics and Fear: Hutu, Tutsi and Ethnicity in Rwanda

Beyond Ethnic Politics and Fear:  Hutu, Tutsi, and Ethnicity in Rwanda   by Felicien Kanyamibwa, PhD. New Jersey, USA, May 19, 2009. INTRODUCTION Fifteen years after the small nation of Rwanda experienced one of the worst tragedies of the modern history, the core problems remain unresolved.  While most people, including Great Lakes Region experts, humanitarian…

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General Kagame, Open the doors to Rwandan Refugees

Déclaration à l’ Occasion des Cérémonies Officielles de Lancement du Processus de Désarmement. C’est une grande joie pour moi de prendre la parole en ce jour ci à Kasiki à l’occasion du lancement officiel du processus de désarmement volontaire des combattants du Ralliement pour l’Unité et la Démocratie et le Rassemblement du Peuple Rwandais (RUD/RPR)…

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Crossing the chasm: The pride of African shepherd’s exuberance

Washington, D.C.: “Crossing the chasm: The pride of African shepherd’s exuberance.” AfroAmerica Network. Baltimore, December 26, 2008. On September 1, 2004, AfroAmerica Newtrok editors wrote the article titled “Baraka Obama, from goat shepherd to US Congress: “ I will make you the shepherd of man””. Little did they know that the prophesy will become true….

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If BBC, how about the common people

If Rwandan Government Can Stifle International Media, what is it doing to common Rwandans? picture; Tom Ndahiro by  Felicien Kanyamibwa, PhD AfroAmerica Network, June 11, 2008 The renowned and mighty British Broadcast Corporation (BBC) is facing an unlikely foe in an unlikely place: a rogue journalist in a tiny country of Rwanda. How media professionals spearhead…

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Declaration of Kinshasa on the Peace Process in the Great lakes Region

Declaration of Kinshasa on the Peace Process in the Great lakes Region. Kinshasa, January 24, 2008 At the invitation by the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a delegation composed by representatives of the armed political organizations that have fighters in the DRC and observers traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo from…

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But, Who Are the FAR Interahamwe?

*USA** condemns renegade groups FAR/Interahamwe: but who are they? ** *** By AfroAmerica Network. November 16, 2007. AfroAmerica Network has obtained the lengthy “Congolese and  Rwandan  Joint Communiqué Against Armed Presence in Eastern DRC”, signed in  Nairobi, on November 9, 2007 by the Congolese Foreign Affairs Minister  Antipas Mbusa Nyamwisi, the Rwandan Foreign Affairs Minister…

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A reflection on the dilemma of Black tyrants in Africa

The Black History Month:  A reflection on the dilemma of Black tyrants in Africa. Felicien Kanyamibwa, PhD with the edits from David O’Brian, AfroAmerica Network, Baltimore, MD, March 1, 2007. Recently, I read an article from Mr. Servilien Sebasoni, the spokesperson of the ruling RPF, about the dilemma of a liberator, comparing Rwandan General Kagame …

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