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Heading to Tanzania
This time tomorrow I will be at Lungi Airport outside of Freetown waiting for the Kenya Airways flight to Nairobi.
Once in Nairobi I will hop a bus to take me across the border to Arusha, Tanzania, where I will be attending and blogging about a conference on the new African Court for Human and Peoples' Rights. The conference is organized by the Cyrus Vance Center for International Justice, the East Africa Law Society, the Foundation for Human Rights Initiatives and the Kenya section of the International Commission of Jurists. I will be blogging for the website Global Network for Justice Initiatives and cross-posting to this site. Please stay tuned for exciting updates, including my trip to Lungi Airport which now involves a ferry since the helicopter across the bay has been grounded! It's always something in Sierra Leone....
Africa and the Global Matrix
Firstly, thanks for being concerned about Africa.
Often, I find that, people in the West are either ashamed or don't see the significance in caring about Africa and Africans. Sadly, this carries over into how the West often treats persons who have more traditional African features (Black/dark skin, kinky hair, etc). Since we all come from Africa, allowing countless countries and tribes in Africa to be destroyed (by various means, some self-inflicted, mostly foreign inflictions) we are KILLING ourselves!
Our world should be one family, sharing one set of resources (air, water, food, intellectual ideas). But instead, we have allowed greed and an imperial mindset to have us separated.
Peace