What transpired in Ivory Coast recently, luckily, unearthed a great rot in our education system and upper echelons of power in Africa. Laurent Gbagbo, the professor of History, made a bad history for not understanding history. He mindlessly clung unto power so as to cause many deaths and many casualties. Gbagbo’s saga is a test to our [...]
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“Africa’s Hidden Presidents?” by Nkwazi Mhango
Posted in Africa, African Politics, AfroSpear, Afrospear bloggers, AfroSphere, Corruption, Cote d’Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, Leadership, Nkwazi Mhango, Simone Gbagbo on April 25, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Blackout of humanitarian crisis in Cote d’Ivoire
Posted in Africa, African Elections, African Politics, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Alassana Ouattara, Aljazeera English, Cote d’Ivoire, Crimes Against Humanity, Democracy, Genocide, Jasmine Revolution, Laurent Gbagbo, Leadership, News, Revolution on March 27, 2011 | 12 Comments »
In the wake of the enormous media coverage of the uprisings and so-defined “revolutions” in North Africa and the Middle East, I am hard pressed to find any media coverage of the escalating atrocities and impending civil war in Cote d’Ivoire. The “blackout” of this media coverage I am referring to is not within the [...]


