Glossing over Africa’s image

There is a growing tide of activities taking place in Northern Ireland which aim to project a new image of Africa. It is hoped that the European Commission funded project: Images and Messages of Africa from an African Perspective will change biased perceptions in Northern Ireland. African Diaspora organisations in Northern Ireland, the Republic of…

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Job insecurity and prejudice forcing Africans to leave Northern Ireland

Recent reports in the media have indicated that there are a growing number of African people returning to their motherland from Europe because of high levels of job insecurity. Common convention especially within some right-wing migration discourses; often describe the African bit of the South-North travel as an economic experience inspired by a one-way ticket…

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Africa’s Third Liberation is underway

Africans, the general masses, the youth, intelligentsia, opposition politicians, religious leaders, students, and trade unionists have finally woken up from the yoke of oppression, the previously untouchable regimes that have ruled them since those days of political independence from Europe. Without any hesitation, this is Africa’s Third Liberation being spoken in the revolutionary languages that…

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Black, Jewish and second class

Are Falasha Jews still treated purely as the black ‘other’ and therefore racially insignificant in the Jewish Nation? For just under 10 years between 1984 and the early nineties, a culturally distinct ethnic, nomadic community were evacuated to Israel from Ethiopia. In many contested debates it is argued that the Falasha Jews were brought to…

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