Janet Silvera, Senior Gleaner Writer Jamaican Gleaner WESTERN BUREAU: As children born in Jamaica, they played dandy shandy, bat and ball, hopscotch and jacks. As adults, they have invested in real estate and played a pivotal role in sustaining remittances to the country. However, once they land at the Norman Manley or Sangster International airports [...]
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No Welcome Home for Canadian Jamaicans
Posted in Immigration, Jamaica, tagged Canada, Immigration, Jamaica on May 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Byts and Bytes
Posted in Africa, AfroSpear, Afrospear bloggers, AfroSphere, Arizona, Black History, Colourism, Critical Thinking, Cuba, Geopolitics, History, Immigration, Mexico, NAACP, Racism, Stratfor, U.S.A on August 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
1. “It is easy enough to dismiss those who persist in believing that the first successful African slave revolt took place in Haiti. Arab historians have themselves established the contrary, and in contemporaneous detail, so that it is near common knowledge that a revolt of epical dimensions took place at least a millennium earlier, in [...]
District 9: The future in the shadow of the past that is today
Posted in Africa, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Aliens, District 9, Entertainment, Immigration, Movies, Racism, Science Fiction, South Africa on August 20, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Every so often a film comes along which blows me away… as it stirs so much emotions and thoughts within me. Earlier this year it was ”Gran Torino“. Now it’s “District 9“. I don’t want to reveal too much of the plot, but here is the basic storyline. The movie starts with the arrival of a spaceship over Johannesburg, South Africa, with over a million sick and malnourished aliens [...]
Immigration 111: Racists, Xenophobes and Bigots
Posted in Activism, African-Americans, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Capitalism, Critical Thinking, Economics, Immigration, Knowledge, Life, News, Politics, Racism, racist exploitation, Work on May 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A commenter on a previous post submitted this video which discusses the impact of illegal immigration on African Americans, as well as other issues relating to the subject of illegal immigration. I found it thought-provoking and rather enlightening on certain aspects of the issue at large. It also challenges the racialization of illegal immigration and the misuse of [...]
“Teach ‘No more lies about Africa’, in our schools” by Nkawzi N. Mhango
Posted in Africa, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Corruption, Economics, Europe, Geopolitics, Immigration, Knowledge, Life, Media, News, Nkwazi Mhango on April 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
If you ask me: who my prophets and books of authorities are, you’ll laugh at me (if you are foolish enough to do so). For, I’ll never mince words to tell you that they’re Mussamaali Nangoli, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Shaaban Robert, among others without forgetting their books and what not. Why have I [...]
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