December 2011
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Brilliant images from the Congolese Diaspora... →
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Congo 2011 presidential election - a sham that is...
Researching the increasingly tragic history of The Democratic Republic of Congo is a distressing task. The reality is that Africa’s second largest country is one of unbounded potential that has never been allowed to materialise; a consequence of western complicity in the rape of a nation. Despite its wealth of natural resources, the DCR remains bottom of the United Nations poverty index.
The DRC...
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Reading The Riots - My experience
American Professors Gary Lavigna and Ann Donnellan state that ‘Human behaviour never occurs in a vacuum’.
The August riots were deeply affecting and remarkable because of the sheer scale of which they grew. In the aftermath many were judging the behaviour and subsequently the people who were involved without taking time to consider the causes in any detail.
Admittedly, as the riots escalated...