African icon Miriam Makeba dies
Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba has died at the age of 76 after collapsing at a concert in Italy. The legendary singer and symbol
for South African freedom and justice died on Monday 10th of November 2008. She was performing at a concert in the Italian southern city
of Naples and collapsed on stage. She was treated while the audience shouted for an encore but died at The Pineta Grande clinic in Castel
Volturno, near the city of Naples from a heart attack, officials said.
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Power sharing constitution at last
Kenyan President signs power-share law
Kenyan President, Mwai Kibaki on Tuesday signed an amendment to the constitution and a
new law to allow the country's first-ever power-sharing coalition, enshrining a power-sharing deal between rival
political factions. The Bills was unanimously approved by Kenyan MPs enacting the power-sharing deal between President
Mwai Kibaki and his political rival Raila Odinga.
The bill created the post of a prime minister and two deputy prime minister in a coalition government.
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Stephen Lawrence centre vandalized again
Vandals attacks Stephen Lawrence centre
The memorial centre built in honour of murdered London teenager Stephen Lawrence has been vandalised in a "race attack"
within a week of its opening.
Just a week after the centre was opened eight windows, worth £15,000 each totaling more than £100,000 damage to the
£10m architectural centre built as a memorial to Stephen Lawrence.
Stephen, 18, was stabbed to death in an unprovoked racial attack by a gang at a bus stop in Eltham, south-east London,
in April 1993.
London Mayor Ken Livingstone expressed his outrage. Read more
Dr Watson’s Gaff on Africa
Dr Watson
One of the world's top scientists, DNA pioneer Dr James Watson, has been fired from his job after he said
Africans (blacks) were less intelligent than other people.
James Watson, a Nobel Prize winner for his part in the unravelling of DNA who now runs one of America’s leading
scientific research institutions, has said that Western policies towards African countries were wrongly based on an
assumption that black people were as clever as their white counterparts when “testing“ suggested the contrary. In his
book he seems to suggest that academia will soon, probably within 10 years or so simply have to accept what was his
perceived reality, instead of political correctness, because advances in DNA sequencing will allow the pinpointing of
genetic factors determining, say, psychopathy, schizophrenia, autism and differing intellectual abilities.
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