Africa Is Bleeding The DRC is bleeding and the media’s silence is painfully numbing. Why is the power of the media not being utilized to spread the word about what is happening in the DRC? When corporations like Apple are working on a new device, the media communicates this and even interviews experts and the likes just … Continue reading Why Is Mainstream Media Mum About What’s Happening in the DRC?Â
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The Government’s Lullaby Song No Longer Puts Us To Sleep
When the government sings lullabies, we no longer fall asleep. Ever since the new dawn began our trust in them has eroded, and they have resorted to what may now be a failed attempt of image sanitation, because it led to the punishment of those who were bold enough to speak up. As the veil … Continue reading The Government’s Lullaby Song No Longer Puts Us To Sleep
‘For The Ones in Charge’
With intelligence not being injected into the skulls of our people because it came naturally, you would think our governments would have long prioritised the issue of unemployment, the high cost of living and removed themselves from the ruins of an inherited system they were recruited into maintaining, despite it being an alien system if … Continue reading ‘For The Ones in Charge’
“To Whom It May Concern”
By Mnelisi Mawela As Russia has written off the debts of African Nations amounting to more than $20 bln, I sit & wonder about our affiliation or rather our membership to the G20 Union.I've never heard the G20 Countries writing off the Debts of African Countries that they've exploited & even stole from for Centuries, … Continue reading “To Whom It May Concern”
Watch Out For Traps Disguised as Life-Changing Contracts
Why would I settle for less when I know my worth? What makes you think I’d find joy in dividing sons and daughters of the mother continent? When those who were comfortable with selling out were compensated by the colonizers, what do you think happened to those who refused? Now why would I want to … Continue reading Watch Out For Traps Disguised as Life-Changing Contracts
About The Mbali Mtshali Case…
The safety of our children irregardless of their background should be prioritised. The pimping of children by their family members must come to an end. We can not normalize ukunya. La Nkosi I need you to wake up and start doing what is right! Not what you were trained to spew whenever we raise our … Continue reading About The Mbali Mtshali Case…
Now that the gloves are off and the masters are tired, where to from here?
Fireworks went off and champagne bubbled from every corner, you had the oppressors clapping hands for you and the enslaved celebrating your appointment as our number one. Promising the majority a free and fair country where corruption had no room or thieves wouldn’t dare steal from the public! Now as the years went by instead … Continue reading Now that the gloves are off and the masters are tired, where to from here?
The Ugly Truth
The price we pay for exposing the truth is always heavier than the punishment given to those who committed the wrongs.
Notes From a Student Activist
As a student activist, we are given the yellow light by those we never expected whilst still awaiting the green light from those who claim to be the change makers.It makes you question the initial intentions of those who put rules in place that frustrate sons and daughters of the soil on their respective campuses, … Continue reading Notes From a Student Activist
Ethiopia, The only African nation that resisted the partition of Africa.
How Ethiopia became the first African nation to defeat a European force, following the partition of Africa during the Berlin Conference of 1885 is something worth sharing in the content African governments feed our children. Italian Prime Minister, Francesco Crispi went on a colonising spree in the mother continent following the partition of Africa during … Continue reading Ethiopia, The only African nation that resisted the partition of Africa.
The problem with today’s leaders
The era of leading with use of words and no action has come to an end, to those of you who continue to do so unapologetically don't you ever get tired of having to lie your way out of things you could easily avoid? If the approach was from a genuine place of concern then … Continue reading The problem with today’s leaders
Who was Queen Abla Pokou?
Ever heard of an Akan queen who led her people from modern-day Ghana to the Ivory Coast around the 1770's where she founded the Baole nation? Queen Abla Pokou was born at the beginning of the 18th century. She also happened to be the niece of King Osei Tutu who was the co-founder of the … Continue reading Who was Queen Abla Pokou?
The Father Of Multi-Partism
Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe Source Born on April 12 1922 in the Chinsali district of the Northern Province of Northern Rhodesia. Chinsali was remote from the country’s urban centres, it was an area of early educational development, due to the presence of two rival missions. The Presbyterian Livingstonia Mission of the United Free Church of Scotland … Continue reading The Father Of Multi-Partism
No Peace in Ethiopia?
A country with a rich history, landlocked in the Horn countryside of Africa. The country which birthed phenomenonal women of color who ruled remarkably during their reign: Queen Sheba and Queen Candace. Ethiopia where peace roamed is bleeding, unrest, suffering, abuse and crime created by the incompetence and ignorance of the ones who led and … Continue reading No Peace in Ethiopia?
The Dark Side of ‘Military Assisted Transitions’
Military assisted transitions is a fancier and safer way of calling it a coup. What is a coup? It is a sudden and unconstitutional takeover of power by a small group within a state, a military coup is when the takeover is led by certain individuals who are also leaders within the military which eventually … Continue reading The Dark Side of ‘Military Assisted Transitions’
To The Enablers of the system
For you to parade yourselves as people who have transformed the system thinking you conditioned us enough to blind us from the truth is a nightmare on its own.When we speak of transformation in the country's education system, we don't only speak of an upgrade followed by the maintenance of infrastructure and technology but we … Continue reading To The Enablers of the system
The Phoenix Massacre
The president came out to applaud those using private security and vigilantism to 'protect their communities' this then led to Europeans and Indians parading the streets, terrorizing, burning shacks and deliberately shooting unarmed black South Africans all in the name of 'protecting themselves' now this was after the president publicly incited ethnic violence. It was … Continue reading The Phoenix Massacre
The Quest to ‘deal with’ President Jacob Zuma
In an attempt to further silence his voice and jail him the country’s highest court exposed it’s biasness. South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has been sentenced to 15 months in jail by the country’s highest court. The sentence came after the Constitutional Court found him guilty of contempt for defying its order for him … Continue reading The Quest to ‘deal with’ President Jacob Zuma
To those it may concern.
THE MEDIA IN OUR COUNTRY IS BIASED, ESPECIALLY A NUMBER OF NEWSROOMS AND MEDIA HOUSES. These people never cover the news we need to hear instead they tarnish the images of politicians and leaders, these newsrooms create false stories to attract more readers and to sell their newspapers, forgetting about the negative impact some of … Continue reading To those it may concern.
La Nkosi Writes 