Nigerian Times

Fidel Castro, the Lion of Cuba Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz retired as the President and Commander-in-Chief of Cuba on Monday February 18, 2008, after 49 years in power. Fidel Castro is the most lionized foreign leader in Africa and highly esteemed as one of the heroes of the liberation struggles in South African nations. Fidel Castro sent Cuban troops to Angola on November 4, 1975, to join the forces of the marxist MPLA-ruled government in the war against the racist South African-backed UNITA rebels. One of the survivors, Claude Grace Uushona can still remember how she survived the massacre in the refugee camp in Cassinga, in southern Angola and was rescued and brought to Cuba when she was only 16. "It was a camp for women and children refugees located 250 km from the border with Namibia. On May 4, 1978, South African forces bombed us with military helicopters and planes," she recalled. Cuban and Angolan troops helped the guerrilla freedom fighters of the Southwest African Pe...

Barack Obama at a political campaign rally . BEING BLACK IS NOT ENOUGH The fundamental existence of the African American is defined by the African American experience. You cannot be an African American without an African American experience. Being black and with an American citizenship is not enough. How can a biracial citizen of America who was never raised as an African American and does not have the natural African American experience suddenly be an African American? What if Barack Obama's White mother raised him up in Indonesia and he became an Indonesian citizen before returning to the US, and later became an American citizen? We have Nigerian Americans, South African Americans and so forth, who were born and bred in the US, but they are not African Americans. If you were born to an African father and a White American mother, but your African father is not an American citizen, you are first and foremost an African and not an African American. If you were born by an African...