Time To Honour The Real Discoverers
By Readith Mwila Muliyunda

IT has been years since most African countries got independence from Europe, breaking away from colonialism and slavery periods that shamed the continent. These activities left Africa scarred to date as the continent’s history got twisted, erased or stolen by colonisers and the so called explorers. When it finally came, Africa’s long awaited victory against colonialism presented an opportunity for the continent to find its lost and true history —the history of our ancestors that could provide the population with the real education about themselves, their spirituality and their surroundings." Full story here..."

Who Says Elections Are Fair? ………….The Zimbabwe Case
By Readith Mwila Muliyunda

ATLAST! Zimbabwe’s Parliamentary elections are over. But in an election that saw Mugabe’s ruling ZANU Patriotic Front (PF) carry the day and as is in any other election here or there, there was no absence of dissatisfied camps of the opposition and its supporters.
Observers from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) mission comprising 14 countries in Southern Africa plus the African Union (AU) mission have both declared the elections transparent and free and fair. But opposition Movement For Democratic Change (MDC) with the party’s British and American allies have cried foul citing fraud and rigging.
There has since been a tag of war of words between those declaring the elections free and those opposing such declarations and the outcome. The question is “ were the Zimbabwe elections truly free and fair?” But then to answer this question is to ask ourselves another questions “has there ever been a free and fair election anywhere on this planet?” Full story here..."

Africa Says No To GM Food
By Readith Mwila Muliyunda,

IN 2002, Zambia experienced a food shortage in some parts of the country due to unfavourable weather conditions. The US offered the country aid in terms of corn which was turned down when the Zambian government discovered that the corn was genetically engineered. Zambian leaders were upset that the the corn was brought into the country without the donor disclosing that it was genetically modified until it had already been delivered.
From a wide consultation carried out with local scientists, academics NGOs, other stakeholders and the general public, it was decided that the GM corn be taken out of the country because its safety was questionable, especially that the country has never consumed this type of food before and it had no policy in place on the matter. This rejection of food aid by Zambians by ‘generous’ America was met by an uproar and debate in the international community which questioned whether ‘starving’ Africans were entitled to pick their food.
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Will The G8 Summit Deliver?
By Readith Mwila Muliyunda

Africans are anxiously waiting to see what’s in store for them at this month’s G8 summit where Tony Blair will try to persuade other leaders to effectively deal with issues surrounding Africa’s highly publicized poverty.
The G8 has recently written off $16.7billion of about 18 countries on the continent out of the more than US$270bn owed by only Sub-saharan Africa.. This was a big step for the G8, although the cancellation is very minimal, infact less than even a quarter of what is owed.
Therefore, the upcoming G8 meeting somehow holds most of Africa’s hope to see a total erasure of the debt and the correction of other irregularities that could allow Africa to compete freely on the international arena.
We are holding our breath, to see how far the G8 nation are ready to go in giving the continent what has been long overdue-justice.
This will however call for absolute sincerety, honesty, open mindedness and selflessness among the G8 nations to be able to go beyond the selfish interests that has for a long time driven them into the alienation and exploitation of Africa for time immemorial.
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