New Issue of Born Black Magazine

Recently Canada has granted a refugee status for a white South African, who won his claim based on fear of persecution by black South Africans because of his race. South African government condemned Canada's decision as racist and alarmist. The news has sparked angry debates from both white and black South Africans, which is making its own reflection on the politics of race in the country.

Even though Global warming is a big headache for the whole world, Africa's ecosystem is suffering the most and is hit by more draughts, floods and other disasters. It is assumed that the effect may be on a similar scale to the climatic disruption in the last Ice Age. What is more worrying is the historical weather patterns are becoming less useful for predicting the future conditions because global warming is changing ocean and atmospheric conditions. As a result, it is predicted that in 30 to 50 years, the Earth's weather generating system will be entirely different.

On April 6, 2009, the US Supreme Court refused to consider an appeal from death-row journalist and former Black Panther, Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of white Philadelphia Police Officer, Daniel Faulkner, at a 1982 trial deemed unfair by Amnesty International, the European Parliament, the Japanese Diet, Nelson Mandela, and numerous others.

Our world is fixated on body images of women, pressuring women to meet certain standards to be considered attractive. Women with slim bodies, straight nose, straight hair and light skin are presented as models and beautiful women by the media, fashion industries and other cultural forms. Everyday women of all color attempt to meet these standards, falling prey to weight loss, cosmetics and beauty industries. Since these yardsticks of beauty are close to Eurocentric images of women, the adjustments women of color, specially black women, have to consider demand them to change their very nature.

The 11th of August 2003 went down in African history as the day in which a democratically elected president by the name of Charles Taylor was forced into exile. The exit of Charles Taylor from Liberia appeared crucial for peace to prevail upon the West African war torn nation. Hence Charles Taylor was lured out of power with the promise that he would not be tried for war crimes.

It goes beyond saying that ambition is an aphrodisiac, culminating in a hitherto complex web of supposedly drug-induced passion. Driven by lust for control and power, some have become paralyzed by psycho-social imbalances, bereft of proper reasoning, having neurotic tendencies- emotional disorders-, and have been plagued by their own loss of what is real and what is surreal.

He didn't sit atop a throne, or darn himself in gold chains or a uniform heavy with shiny metal. He didn't ask the people to bow but rather rise with him. Stand side by side with him. He point to their condition: colonized, enslaved, abused. Worse, their history had been stolen. Memory of another time when they honored the land and each other had been replaced with a history that spoke of their inferiority. Recount how we are depicted as animals.

No doubt one of the most entertaining teams in the world, the Super Eagles of Nigeria appear to be taking a downward dive over the past few years.

Ghana has been admired by the international community this year for her recent election that granted a peaceful win for an opposition leader. In the African political scenario, Ghana's case not only deserves applaud, but also should be followed by other African countries as a model. African elections rarely demonstrate transparency and barely end up with peace, but rather usually are characterized by political parties in each others throats