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“When AU blessed and honoured a terrorist” by Nkwazi N. Mhango

Posted in Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, Africa, African Union, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Geopolitics, Libya, Life, Muammar Gaddafi, News, Pan Africanism, Terrorism on September 26, 2009 | 8 Comments »

The report that Ali al-Megrahi, the alleged Lockerbie bomber (released recently on the grounds of poor health), received ovation from African Members of Parliament in Libya is disgusting and shameful. The 57-year-old was serving a life sentence in Greenock prison for the 1988 bombing of PanAm flight 103 over Lockerbie, which killed 270 people. The [...]

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“Africa’s becoming more despotic and nepotistic” by Nkwazi N. Mhango

Posted in Africa, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Corruption, Leadership, Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, News, Nkwazi Mhango, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi on September 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »

The seven-day-40th anniversary of Libya’s strongman’s autocratic rule and charade elections in Gabon, where the son of the former tyrant was controversially declared a winner after a fixed vote, forced me to revisit Africa’s political landscape.  In Tripoli, the jamboree-like festival, a posh and king-size celebration- made possible by public coffers, lasted for a week. This [...]

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