December 2009

The Sudan’s dimensions: A country divided by ethnicity and religion

The words ethnic group and religion have been greatly controversial in world politics and especially in the developing world. This has been evidenced in the world that the word ethnic group and religion have created civil unrests within many countries and not just on the African Continent. This means that the communities which based their lives on ethnic groups have a different view of the term than the non-ethnic group...

Author(s): Chuei D. Mareng    

December 2009

African Diaspora and control of HIV infection due to unsafe medical practices in Africa

Members of the African Diaspora have been portrayed as defectors, disloyal to their motherland. Such over generalized characterizations unfortunately risk clouding a complex reality and masking the positive involvement of a large number of Africans of the Diaspora in African affairs, particularly in the context of the HIV/AIDS crisis. One illustration of this involvement is a pilot project undertaken by US-based members...

Author(s): Ngoyi K. Zacharie Bukonda and Tumba Ghislain Disashi