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The tragedy of Zimbabwe and the misguided support some African intellectuals and leaders still give the Mugabe dictatorship as we saw today with the tepid resolution passed at the concluded AU summit in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egpyt betrays the current poverty of African nationalism.

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The red flag one is most likely to be confronted with for criticizing the thoroughly illegitimate ‘leader' of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, is imperialism and racism. If you are an African criticizing Mugabe, you are likely to be accused of being guilty of working in cahoots with racist-imperialists.  read more »

I commend Ndugu Horace Campbell and Ndugu Eusi Kwayana for the best insight I've seen so far into how Africans can view Zimbabwe's crisis.  read more »

For those who have followed the debates around the African Pavilion at the 52^nd Venice Biennale before the exhibition itself, especially those who had no opportunity of seeing the show in Venice, nor of monitoring critical responses to it in the international art media, here are three excerpts from reviews by three major international art magazines: Flash Art, and Art in America and Frieze. These reviews point to the gains and losses of the African project in this year's Venice.  read more »

China has become an important economic resource for Africa in the 21^st century. China's rapidly growing economy has overlapped with an urgent need to diversify African economies, which remain largely based on the export of unprocessed raw materials. China's industries have turned to Africa in search of their mineral and raw material needs. And China has offered Africa the opportunity to develop its infrastructural base to support economic diversification and to improve the transfer of skills in science and technology.  read more »