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The Distant Dream of African Development: Conflicting Theories on African Under-development Since Colonialism

By: Feature Writer Tongkeh Joseph Fowale

African Ethnicity, Towards a Definition: Contending Perspectives on Ethnicity in Africa

By: Feature Writer Tongkeh Joseph Fowale

Free Education For All in Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s Primary Schools Expansion Policy was a Disaster

By: Farai Muchemwa

Defenders of Ethnicity and their Arguments: Attempts at Dispelling the Myths about Tribalism in Africa

By: Feature Writer Tongkeh Joseph Fowale

Movements of Liberation in Mozambique: Frelimo Versus Renamo for County Control

By: Maureen Zieber

Mozambican Women During the Revolution: Movements of Change, and Struggles of a Gender

By: Maureen Zieber

The Zimbabwe Factor in Thabo Mbeki's Fall: Silent Diplomacy Towards Zimbabwe and the Fate of Mbeki

By: Feature Writer Tongkeh Joseph Fowale

How Robert Mugabe Confronted his Enemies: Why Mugabe Survives Despite Sanctions and Mounting Opposition

By: Feature Writer Tongkeh Joseph Fowale

South Africa – Zimbabwe Relations under Mbeki: Thabo Mbeki's "Silent Diplomacy" and Zimbabwe's Power Struggle

By: Feature Writer Tongkeh Joseph Fowale

How Zimbabwe Left the Commonwealth: Mugabe’s Disrespect for the "Harare Declaration"

By: Feature Writer Tongkeh Joseph Fowale

African Responses to Zimbabwe's Land Crisis: How Land Reforms Created Friends and Enemies for Robert Mugabe

By: Feature Writer Tongkeh Joseph Fowale

Female Laborers in Tole Tea Plantation, Cameroon: Cameroonian Women as Wage Earners in a Cash Crop Plantation

By: Feature Writer Tongkeh Joseph Fowale

Death of Omar Bongo, the Message for Africa: The End of Bongo, A New Opportunity for Gabon and Africa

By: Feature Writer Tongkeh Joseph Fowale

A Discourse on African Socialism: Africa’s Search for Identity in a New Age

By: Feature Writer Tongkeh Joseph Fowale

From Eurocentrism to Afrocentrism: Goals and Problems of African History and Scholarship

By: Alex Graham-Heggie

Kwame Nkrumah and the Search for African Unity: How Nkrumah’s Ideals Still Shape Modern Debates About Pan-Africanism

By: Feature Writer Tongkeh Joseph Fowale

Mugabe, from Constitutionalism to Radicalism: Understanding the Changing Phases of Robert Mugabe’s Land Reforms

By: Feature Writer Tongkeh Joseph Fowale

Arguments For and Against Mugabe's Land Policy: The Debate about Controversial Land Reforms under Robert Mugabe

By: Feature Writer Tongkeh Joseph Fowale

Revisiting the Story of Land Reforms in Zimbabwe: Understanding the Forces Behind Mugabe’s Controversial Reform Policy

By: Feature Writer Tongkeh Joseph Fowale

African Conflicts, the Role of Ethnicity: Tribal conflicts and the Politics of chaos in Africa

By: Feature Writer Tongkeh Joseph Fowale

Celebrating Kwanzaa: The Harvest of the First Fruits

By: Kristin Peoples

The History of Congo-Brazzaville: The End of African Colonialism

By: Victor Mobley

Revolution of Black History Month: Call to Action for Most Important Month of the Year for Black People

By: Dorla Anne Harris

Why Just Black History Month: What About the Native Americans and Chinese?

By: Mary Trotter Kion

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