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interesting viewpoint



AFRICANS, IT IS TIME TO KICK WHITES OUT OF AFRICA AND CHANGE THE LEADERSHIP.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4wIH_Hn-mc

[b]No begging in my neck of the woods. Many 9ja peeps are doing great things in yankee and still connected and committed to the progress of the fatherland.



Miami Gardens appoints Nigerian-American FMU professor to council

Miami Gardens’ newest council member said lessons learned from his childhood in Nigeria will help shape his leadership style

By Nadege Green

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Miami Gardens Councilman Erhabor Ighodaro


ngreen@miamiherald.com

A Nigerian-American college professor is the newest face on Miami Gardens’ city council.

Erhabor Ighodaro was appointed to the council to fill the vacant seat left open when Oliver Gilbert won the mayoral race in August

Ighodaro jokes that many resident may not be able to pronounce his name at first try.

It’s pronounced “Eh-ruh-boar E-ho-dah-row’

“I know its difficult, but it’s my name,” he said.

The 39-year old teaches criminal justice at his alma mater Florida Memorial University in Miami Gardens. He lives in the city with his wife and 6-year-old twin daughters.

Ighodaro said he plans to approach his city position just as he’s approached much in his life “with a conflict resolution mindset,” he said.

As the eighth oldest sibling out of a crowded household of 18 children, Ighodaro said conflict resolution was a must to navigate the intricacies of family life. He and his brothers and sisters were born and raised Benin, Nigeria, a province nearly two hours away from the country’s former capital Lagos.

His father, a chief of the Edo tribe, had three wives, a common cultural tradition in Africa.

“Some people wonder why I have the tolerance I have, it comes from my environment. You cannot live with 20 people in your house and not be patient and considerate of other people’s needs,” he said.

The newly minted councilman said he was raised to value education..

As a young boy, he walked to school every day with a hand-carved wooden chair and small table on top of his head. The school he attended had no furniture; the kids who could not afford their own furniture had to do without.

“That was a luxury because the schools didn’t have those facilities,” he said.

Ighodaro, who stand at 6 feet, 3 inches, left Nigeria at 19 to play basketball for Florida Memorial University and pursue a college degree. He later earned a master’s and doctoral degree from St. Thomas University and Nova Southeastern University.

Currently, he is the executive director of the Dr. Robert B. Ingram Foundation, an education-based nonprofit, named after the late school board member.

The Ingram Foundation travels every year with a group of students from Carol City High to parts of Africa.[/b]

On a broader lever, Ighodaro said, “It’s part of a global education. Our students have to be able to compete in the world market.”

But on a more personal level, Ighodaro said he wants students of African descent to have a connection to a land they learn mostly about in history books.

“In my own way, I believe I can bring together people whose history has been disconnected to make that history whole,” he said.

Ighodaro ran for Council Seat 3 in the August elections, but was unsuccessful. The race will head to a runoff between Ulysses Harvard and Rodney Harris in the Nov. 6 election.

Ighodaro said he is honored he was chosen to fill Gilbert’s former seat. The opportunity presents him with the chance to fulfill some of the issues he addressed on the campaign trail.

“Even though the city has grown tremendously, the Achilles’ heel is that our reputation is not one that speaks well as it relates to public safety,” he said. “I think I can help bring some additional programs that will improve safety with our residents.”

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When pro athletes go 'Broke'

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Miami filmmaker Billy Corben's new documentary on bankrupt players premieres Tuesday on ESPN

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Former Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Andre Rison is among the athletes profiled for Billy Corben's new documentary "Broke," premiering Oct. 2 on ESPN as part of the new "30 for 30" season. (Billy Corben/Courtesy / October 2, 2012)


By Phillip Valys, SouthFlorida.com

October 2, 2012

As a purveyor of documentaries about Miami's cocaine-smuggling trade, illegal backyard fighting rings and ganja-peddling religious cults, filmmaker Billy Corben is all too familiar with characters who live hard and crash harder.

Add to Corben's resume "Broke," a documentary on the too-common trend of professional athletes going financially bust. It premieres at 8 p.m. Tuesday on ESPN as the second season opener for the network's "30 for 30" series.

Produced with Rakontur co-founder Alfred Spellman, Corben's latest doc drops a telling statistic at the outset: 78 percent of NFL players and 60 percent of NBA players filed for bankruptcy within five years of retirement.

"I was surprised at how high the stats were, but I wasn't surprised they were reaching epidemic proportions," Corben says during a Monday phone interview. "Imagine a ball player signing a multimillion dollar contract, and those figures are reported in the newspaper. Everyone in the world now has a target on your back. In the '90s, it was in vogue to make it rain, flaunt your Bentley and sport nicer suits. These athletes are in the competition business, and that translates off the court or gridiron."

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Pro Athletes Go ‘Broke’ in New ESPN Documentary

By Jacqueline Palank

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Curt Schilling is one of many athletes or former athletes who’ve had brushes with bankruptcy.

Ever wonder how professional athletes with multimillion-dollar contracts can end up bankrupt?

In the new documentary “Broke,” which is set to air on ESPN Tuesday evening, director Billy Corben provides a “step by step guide on how to go broke” by talking to the current and former professional athletes who’ve gone broke themselves or have watched teammates and peers drain their bank accounts.

Hint: It’s more than just dropping thousands of dollars at a nightclub or buying Porsches and Escalades for yourself, your parents and your crew. It’s getting a $1 million check when you don’t even know how to open a bank account. It’s not hiring the right advisers to manage your career and your money. It’s being targeted by fraudsters claiming they can multiply (or resurrect) your wealth.

It’s expecting to score touchdowns, make slam dunks and hit home runs for a decade but really only playing the game for a few years. It’s facing huge health-care bills from the injuries you constantly sustain. And it’s not being able to say no to the family and friends that helped you rise up the ranks, even if you didn’t even know you had those family and friends.

“So many of the stories from the athletes are almost identical,” Corben told Bankruptcy Beat Monday.

The director told us he was inspired to make the film several years ago, when former Cleveland Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar filed for bankruptcy protection. Corben, who had recently interviewed Kosar for another documentary, said the news shocked him.

“Bernie played 12 seasons in the NFL—over three times the length of the average career. He was also known for being more financially successful in business after he retired” from his lucrative career, Corben said.

Kosar’s 2009 bankruptcy filing came as a result of the economic downturn, particularly the collapse of the real-estate market. His situation not only mirrors other athletes’ woes but also those of average Americans, Corben said.

Kosar is featured in the film along with other names that will be familiar to Bankruptcy Beat readers, like Curt Schilling. The former Boston Red Sox pitcher, whose videogame company filed for bankruptcy protection this summer, recalled cashing his first paycheck and spreading the $20 bills around him on a hotel bed as he watched TV and ordered room service. Schilling, who earned more than $100 million throughout his career, thought he’d “never” be able to spend it all. Now, he said he expects to lose between $40 million and $50 million as a result of his company’s bankruptcy.

“I never believed that you could beat me,” Schilling says in the film. “I lost.”

Corben said the athletes he talked to—like former NFL players Keith McCants and Leon Searcy—don’t absolve themselves of responsibility for the financial messes they’ve gotten themselves into.

“There’s not a lot of blame passing. Everybody accepts responsibility for their contributions to their downfall,” he said.

Corben said he hopes the film will teach younger athletes how to avoid making the same mistakes as their predecessors. He also wants to change their perceptions of wealth, encouraging athletes to save instead of spend so they can provide for themselves and their families long after their playing days are over.

“It used to be cool to make it rain and literally throw your money away,” he said. “Now, particularly in light of the great recession, it’s not so cool to be ostentatious in America anymore.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/bankruptcy/2012...n-documentary/

Brazil cleared up all its debt and is hosting the next world cup and olympic games. China owes no one and look at their powerhouse economy. As the wise man already said in this thread, the borrower is servant to the lender.

very informative and important write up, thanks for posting.

let me add one

get out and play football on the weekend instead of of watching it on the telly while consuming beer and strong drink. start a league, ask a few companies to sponsor competitions.

dasparrow: @Post

What I want to know is how did the gunmen know the names of the students? There is more to this than meets the eye. I weep for Nigeria because with each passing day, the country continues to degenerate slowly into anarchy. Human life seems to be worth nothing in Nigeria. I pray the killers are caught.

3rd party colonists are hell bent on starting a religious war in 9ja. paid criminals are commenting these atrocities. need we list the weapons manufacturing countries?

yes on the nl romance board, i rarely venture over there anymore, i found my African queen,no need to canvas the runner ups .

quite a feat to accomplish on an empty stomach and limited resources, but positive moves and goals .

i remember reading on nl that she dumped her husband in a 4th rate u.k. convalescent hospital and was back home in 9ja entertaining a young admirer in this very house when her husband gave up the ghost? did not jonathan have to arrange to fly her to london town with fg funds?

[b]Renewed protests raise tension in Haiti's second city



SANTO DOMINGO, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- A call for more protests Thursday against the Haitian government raised tensions in the country's second largest city, where mass demonstrations erupted last week, local media said.

Tensions were visibly high Thursday after protesters clashed with police late Wednesday in the city of Cap-Haitien, 275 km north of the capital Port-au-Prince.

Last Friday, thousands of people took to the streets to protest the high cost of living and flawed government policies.

Cap-Haitien authorities have asked protesters to be patient and wait to see whether the government's measures against shortages of basic goods and price increases would be effective.

In mid-September, Haitian President Michel Martelly announced several measures to combat price increases of basic products after tropical storm Isaac caused significant losses to the country's agriculture.

Martelly's government has also made some changes in response to the demonstrations, including replacing Haiti's national police general director and its delegate in Cap-Haitien.

But opposition groups and social activists called for more protests Thursday. Martelly's opponents said the changes "only strengthen the repressive regime against popular demonstrations", adding that "the people can't wait."

The storm Isaac hit Haiti hard as it continues to recover from a devastating earthquake on Jan. 12, 2010. The country has also struggled to control a cholera epidemic that has killed more than 7,000 people since October 2010.
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[b]the people have had enough of the installed imperialist minion


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Several thousand people protest Haiti gov't


The Associated Press
Several thousand people poured into the streets of Haiti's capital on Sunday to protest the government of President Michel Martelly.

Demonstrators' complaints included the high cost of living and allegations of corruption as they snaked through Port-au-Prince. Some protesters carried small red cards to suggest that Martelly has committed too many fouls since the former pop music star was sworn in as president in May 2011.

The Martelly government had no immediate public reaction to the protest.

Martelly, a pop music star before he turned to politics, presented himself as an outsider when he ran for the presidency. He promised free schooling and houses for people displaced by a massive 2010 earthquake. But some Haitians complain that Martelly has fallen short of improving their lives in one of the poorest countries in the world.

"The president has made so many promises but nothing has become a reality," protester Max Dorlien said. "It's only a clique of his friends who are making money."

The Sunday protest followed several weeks of mostly peaceful demonstrations in the countryside. It also marked the 21st anniversary of the first ouster of two-time President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a former priest who returned to Haiti last year after seven years in exile.

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Haiti: No more words, people want deeds
By G. Dunkel on September 29, 2012

A number of strong, militant protests against the government of Michel Martelly have taken place in Cap-Haitien, the second largest city in Haiti, in the past few weeks. Demonstrators have burned tires and held mass marches. Haitian cops and Minustah — the United Nation’s occupying force in Haiti — using tear gas and live rounds, fired into the air, forcing demonstrations back from government offices.

Some 20 popular organizations and outspoken opposition figures Sen. Moïse Jean-Charles and activist leader Pierrot Augustin called the protests. Michel Martelly is the Haitian president that the U.S. maneuvered to install last year.

These protests condemned government indifference, corruption, lawlessness, the high cost of living, environmental degradation and, above all, Martelly’s broken promises — all general issues throughout Haiti. They also challenged a land-grab local big shots with ties to the Martelly regime were trying to pull off. The high cost of living had become painfully obvious to parents who couldn’t pay for the supplies and fees their children needed to return to school. (Haïti-Liberté, Sept. 19)

Marchers yelled, “Down with Martelly! Down with corruption! Down with expulsions! Down with the high cost of living!” “Expulsions” is the term Haitians use to describe what happens when a big landowner kicks peasants off land that the peasants have been tilling, sometimes for decades, to eke out a living.

Protests, general strikes, picket lines and marches over these issues took place in many other parts of the country, as well as in Cap-Haitien.

In Les Cayes, Haiti’s third largest city, people widely honored the Sept. 14 general strike. Most businesses were closed, including gas stations, public markets and mass transportation. Small business owners in the south of Haiti, where Les Cayes is located, previously supported Martelly but have moved into opposition over growing lawlessness and arbitrary taxation along with blatant corruption. The even poorer workers, peasants and unemployed of Les Cayes gave them plenty of support.

The day before the strike, the state secretary for communications, Joseph Guyler C. Delva, showed up in Les Cayes with 400,000 gourdes ($10,000 U.S.) to bribe local leaders to call it off.

When Delva debated a local opposition figure named Gabriel Fortune at the Les Cayes radio station, demonstrators, many of them former Martelly supporters, gathered outside the station and accused Delva of being “a defender of the devil” and the Martelly government’s “propaganda chief.” (Haïti-Liberté, Sept. 19) The cops had to be called to get Delva out of the station safely.

The many demonstrations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, protested the general issues of corruption, incompetence and subservience to foreign financial institutions and raised the particular needs of the organizations calling the protest. On Sept. 10, the National Union of Haiti’s University Teachers (UNNOH), led by professor Josue Merilien, marched through Port-au-Prince to demand open access to the school system in Haiti for all students and decent wages for professors.

The next day, the Movement for Liberty, Equality and Fraternity for Haitians (Moleghaf) demonstrated for job creation, a change in the living conditions of marginalized populations and a lower cost of living.

On Sept. 12, the Platform of Victimized Employees of Public Enterprises (Pevep), consisting of hundreds of people laid off illegally and arbitrarily from state enterprises, demonstrated to get their jobs back. Pevep says these dismissals were the result of neoliberal policies that the U.S. government and international financial institutions forced on Haiti. Even though the children of Pevep members were on the march, when they went by the earthquake-wrecked National Palace, which is currently being torn down by an NGO, the cops attacked with tear gas.

More demonstrations took place in Port-au-Prince and smaller Haitian cities, and there have been calls issued for some later in September. Popular anger against the Martelly clique is growing and events don’t seem to be breaking his way. [/b]

acidtalk: So she should deprive others their future right?

yes if she and the political elite can continue to get away with it. the oil subsidy scheme is still in place and ogas shell and british petroleum are happy campers. all the 9ja oil refineries are still down and 9ja citizens have to purchase exported and imported oil. the scam is working like a charm.


the people iceland are the only ones that recently had the liver to throw out their corrupt government and the london slave bankers, and their country is vastly improving. the people of greece and spain have also had about enough of the b.s. if you watch the global news lately. norway is the only country that i'm aware of that shares the national cake (oil revenues) with all the people.

don't forget about all the strikes in south africa.


spain and greece this week

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they say you only come this way once so you might as well live it up in grand first class style


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it's raw!

Wine-O - Happy Birthday T.I (T.I Diss)

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just released



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQrKsH_-p3A

USA - Iran History lesson - A Must Watch


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ_HaA2GHvg

This video is banned for broadcast on News Networks in USA, Israel and Europe. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Israel and US does not want you to see. Jewish leaders and prominent businessmen Greet Ahmadinejad with Inshallah and Bless him for long life. Jews have lived in Iran for thousands of years. Over 50,000 Jews live in Teheran. Israeli Jews Love Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCw-oWp1wf8

Fierce battle in my opine.




Ousted South African Leader in Court

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Julius Malema arrives in court in Polokwane, South Africa, on Wednesday

JOHANNESBURG—Firebrand South African politician Julius Malema proclaimed his innocence Wednesday after appearing in a regional court on a charge of money laundering in connection with a 52 million rand ($6.3 million) government contract awarded to a company his family trust partly owns. He was given 10,000 rand bail.

"I have nothing to hide. I've never been part of criminal activity," Mr. Malema said to a crowd of supporters outside the court building after he made his appearance. "They have nothing against me…They are wasting time."

The rabble-rousing politician is the most prominent critic of South African President Jacob Zuma and he says the charges are politically motivated at a time when he's become outspoken about the labor unrest in South Africa's mining industry. He says the charges are meant to shut him up after he threatened to make the mines ungovernable. Mr. Malema was expelled from the ruling African National Congress party earlier this year for sowing disunity.

Mr. Malema said he was told he would face charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering, but once in court on Wednesday was told he'd only be charged on one count of money laundering. The crowd cheered when he said the charge isn't serious. Mr. Malema could face a maximum fine of 100 million rand and up to 30 years in prison.

"You must make sure that Jacob Zuma does not become the president of the ANC," Mr. Malema said Wednesday, speaking of Zuma's bid to be re-elected the party president later this year. "We must remove him as president and then charge him."

Mr. Malema had turned himself into police in Polokwane, in South Africa's northeast, early Wednesday before entering the regional court. When he entered the courtroom people there started cheering. Vigils were held through the night for him, where supporters sang songs against Mr. Zuma. Mr. Malema's next court date is Nov. 30.

In a separate case, the South African Revenue Service is also charging Mr. Malema with unpaid taxes and interest of 16 million rand.

Mr. Malema's four business associates appeared in court Tuesday on charges including fraud, corruption and money laundering for the 52 million rand awarded to the company On Point Engineering for road services in Limpopo province. They were granted a bail of 40,000 rand each.

A draft of the charge sheet said Mr. Malema benefited from the bid paid to On Point engineering and used it to fund the purchase of a farm that cost nearly 4 million rand and to make a payment for a luxury car.

Last week police surrounded Mr. Malema and threatened to arrest him when he arrived at a stadium to address striking mine workers who were meeting to vote on a wage deal. Mr. Malema was forced to leave before addressing the crowd of thousands. Nearly six weeks of strikes by workers at the platinum mine saw violence that killed 46 people.

Mr. Malema said that he would travel to Rustenburg Thursday to support local miners there who are striking.

trying: My mother right now is sick, shes suffering from Hi blood pressure, Internal heat and Nerves pain , shes 46years old ,shes done some test at some hospitals both at govt and private hospitals at the end they only gave her drugs such as adomet and antibiotics. still till today , they cant profer a solution to her ailment. so please doctors on Nairaland i need your advice on whats best for a patient like her to do.

Are there women who are in such conditions or have been through such conditions, please come share with us on here . how u were able to get yours solved
we need advise both from Health experts
and formers patients,

Pls we look forward to your views and contributions

Thankyou

good article on your topic!

High Blood Pressure…it’s a Symptom NOT a Disease!

http://beforeitsnews.com/health/2012/08/high-blood-pressureits-a-symptom-not-a-disease-2446576.html

[quote author=dabossman]Hhm, for the good old days of rap...

real old school depicting reality in yankee!




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circa 2006

Rick Ross - Hustlin'


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BOKO HARAM IN NIGERIA


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In Niger, child marriage on rise due to hunger

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"Families are using child marriage, as an alternative, as a survival strategy to the food insecurity," says Djanabou Mahonde, UNICEF's chief child protection officer in Niger.

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US Taxpayers Spend More on Israeli Defense Than Israeli Taxpayers, Says Former IDF Official


John Glaser, September 12, 2012


Jerusalem Post:

In an apparent reference to the public spat between the United States and Israel, former IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi told the Calcalist conference on Tuesday that preserving strong ties with the United States is an Israeli security necessity.

“We must preserve ties with the United States. I believe this is a security necessity,” he said.

In the past three years, he noted, US taxpayers have contributed more to the Israeli defense budget than Israeli taxpayers.

Since 2009, that amount is more than $11 billion. Explaining why money needs to be stolen from US taxpayers and given to the only nuclear state in the Middle East, despite the fact that Israeli leaders work directly against US interests – especially when they try to pressure us to launch discretionary wars – is getting harder even for hawks to do.

http://antiwar.com/blog/2012/09/12/us-taxpayers-spend-more-on-israeli-defense-than-israeli-taxpayers-says-former-idf-official/

Good thing these archives weren't deposited in the dumpster years ago.

Also, communism/socialism were once very popular political ideologies in many circles in the states and abroad.



New Novel of Harlem Renaissance Is Found

By FELICIA R. LEE
Published: September 14, 2012

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The author Claude McKay in the 1920s.


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The manuscript of the novel by McKay that was found.

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The Columbia graduate student Jean-Christophe Cloutier, left, with Prof. Brent Hayes Edwards.

A Columbia graduate student and his adviser have authenticated the student’s discovery of an unknown manuscript of a 1941 novel by Claude McKay, a leading Harlem Renaissance writer and author of the first novel by a black American to become a best seller.

The manuscript, “Amiable With Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem,” was discovered in a previously untouched university archive and offers an unusual window on the ideas and events (like Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia) that animated Harlem on the cusp of World War II. The two scholars have received permission from the McKay estate to publish the novel, a satire set in 1936, with an introduction about how it was found and its provenance verified.

McKay, a Jamaican-born writer and political activist who died in 1948, at 58 (though some biographies say 57), influenced a generation of black writers, including Langston Hughes. His work includes the 1919 protest poem “If We Must Die,” (quoted by Winston Churchill) and “Harlem Shadows,” a 1922 poetry collection that some critics say ushered in the Harlem Renaissance. He also wrote the 1928 best-selling novel “Home to Harlem.” But his last published fiction during his lifetime was the 1933 novel “Banana Bottom.”

“This is a major discovery,” said Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Harvard University scholar, who was one of three experts called upon to examine the novel and supporting research. “It dramatically expands the canon of novels written by Harlem Renaissance writers and, obviously, novels by Claude McKay.

“More important, because it was written in the second half of the Harlem Renaissance, it shows that the renaissance continued to be vibrant and creative and turned its focus to international issues — in this case the tensions between Communists, on the one hand, and black nationalists, on the other, for the hearts and minds of black Americans,” said Mr. Gates, the director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard.

This literary detective story began in the summer of 2009, when Jean-Christophe Cloutier, a doctoral candidate in English and comparative literature, was working as an intern in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia. He was going through more than 50 boxes of materials belonging to Samuel Roth, a kind of literary pariah who died in 1974 and is best known for being the appellant in a famous obscenity case in the 1950s.

Mr. Roth is also known for publishing work without permission, including excerpts from James Joyce’s “Ulysses” and editions of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” by D. H. Lawrence. Mr. Roth attended Columbia, and his family donated his collection to the university.

No one knew of a connection between Mr. Roth and McKay, Mr. Cloutier said, as he came upon the roughly 300-page double-spaced manuscript, bound between cardboardlike covers bearing the novel’s title and McKay’s name. He also found two letters from McKay to Mr. Roth about possibly ghostwriting a novel to be called “Descent Into Harlem,” about an Italian immigrant who settles in Harlem.

“Amiable” is a different story, though, rife with political intrigue, romance, seedy nightclubs and scenes of black intellectual and artistic life in Harlem during the Great Depression.

Mr. Cloutier quickly took his discovery to Brent Hayes Edwards, his dissertation adviser and an expert in black literature. Mr. Edwards, a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia, knew that McKay had published three novels during his lifetime (including “Banjo,” in 1929.) A novella, “Harlem Glory: A Fragment Of Aframerican Life,” was published posthumously).

But he and Mr. Cloutier immediately found in “Amiable” themes that recurred across McKay’s work, like Communism and labor strikes in Harlem, and characters, like the real-life labor leader Sufi Abdul Hamid. The term “Aframerican,” which McKay used to refer to black people in the Western Hemisphere, also appeared in “Amiable.”

Mr. Cloutier and Mr. Edwards gathered additional evidence by rummaging through archives at libraries around the country, including at Yale, Indiana University, Emory University and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, part of the New York Public Library (which manages the McKay estate).

They ended up amassing a mountain of archival and circumstantial evidence pointing to McKay’s authorship. But it was the extensive correspondence between McKay and his friend Max Eastman, the writer, political activist and avid supporter of the Harlem Renaissance, that ultimately convinced them that “Amiable” was indeed McKay’s, they said.

“The irrefutable archival evidence we have is when Eastman directly quotes from the novel,” Mr. Cloutier said. “McKay sent him pages, all from the summer of 1941 and a bit later.” (They also found letters referring to a contract between McKay and E. P. Dutton to write the novel.)

The authentication of the novel is “scholarly gold,” said William J. Maxwell, the editor of “Complete Poems: Claude McKay.” Its mocking portraits of Communists show McKay’s decisive break with Communism and his effort to turn his political evolution into art, said Mr. Maxwell, a professor of English and African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.

Moreover, while the flowering of arts known as the Harlem Renaissance obsessively documented black life in the 1920s, he said, far less is known about the period of the 1930s, focused on in “Amiable.”

Many scholars believe that the Harlem Renaissance’s creative energy had pretty much run out by the late 1930s. But Mr. Edwards said he believed that “Amiable” would eventually be recognized “as the key political novel of the black intellectual life in New York in the late 1930s.”

McKay represents the Communists as amiable with big teeth, he said, but they end up being a “wolf in sheep’s clothing.”

“I cannot think of another novel that gives us such a rich and multilayered portrayal of black life,” Mr. Edwards continued. “There are scenes with artists in salons, in nightclubs, in queer nightclubs. It has almost a documentary aspect.”

Despite his moment in the spotlight, Mr. Cloutier is still in the middle of his dissertation, which he expects to complete in 2013 or 2014. Its title? “Archival Vagabonds: 20th Century American Fiction and the Archives in Novelistic Practice.” And the McKay manuscript remains where Mr. Cloutier found it, now archived in Box 29, Folders 7 and 8, of the Samuel Roth papers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/15/books/harlem-renaissance-novel-by-claude-mckay-is-discovered.html?_r=1&hp&pagewanted=all

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_McKay

"McKay became involved with a group of black radicals who were unhappy both with Marcus Garvey's nationalism and the middle class reformist NAACP. These included other Caribbean writers such as Cyril Briggs, Richard B. Moore and Wilfrid Domingo. They fought for black self-determination within the context of socialist revolution. Together they founded the semi-secret revolutionary organization, the African Blood Brotherhood."

McKay in London

McKay arrived in London in autumn 1919. He used to frequent a soldier's club in Drury Lane and the International Socialist Club in Shoreditch. A militant atheist, he also joined the Rationalist Press Association. It was during this period that McKay's commitment to socialism deepened and he read Marx assiduously. At the International Socialist Club, McKay met Shapurji Saklatvala, A. J. Cook, Guy Aldred, Jack Tanner, Arthur McManus, William Gallacher, Sylvia Pankhurst and George Lansbury. He was soon invited to write for the Workers' Dreadnought.

Chairman Beaf is probably in the U.K. doing advanced International Economics, or Politics and International Relations course work at Oxford or Cambridge.

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September 13, 2012
Jamaica Offended by Zimbabwe Leader's Remarks


KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Comments by an African leader portraying the men of Jamaica as chronic drunkards and unambitious pot smokers have become the talk of towns across this Caribbean island. People are debating the matter on street corners, in letters to the editor and on radio talk shows.

In unscripted asides during a roughly three-hour speech last week at a research exposition, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said Jamaican "men are always drunk," have no interest in higher education, and people freely smoke marijuana.

"The men want to sing and do not go to colleges, some are dreadlocked. Let us not go there," Mugabe told the crowd at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare. His comments in a mixture of both English and the Shona language were corroborated by The Associated Press after speaking to several reporters who attended the gathering.

Over the years, Mugabe has repeatedly made disparaging remarks about dreadlocked Rastafarians, whom he once described as having "moths and mud" in their hair. Rastafarianism, best known for its ritual use of marijuana and the dreadlock hair style worn by followers, emerged in Jamaica in the 1930s out of anger over the oppression of blacks. A small minority of Jamaicans are adherents.

Reggae singer Cocoa Tea, a Rastafarian who performed in Zimbabwe last October, told The Jamaica Star tabloid that Mugabe's comments were "not a true reflection of us as people."

"Jamaicans are way better than that and we are leaders, but everyone is entitled to their own opinion," Cocoa Tea said.

Glen Harris, a laborer and father of two children, said he felt irritated when he heard about the Zimbabwean president's chiding remarks on a local radio program. Like the large majority of Jamaica's population, Harris is black.

"This is an African leader talking like this? Black man should stick up for each other. We're all Africans," he said on a Kingston street of low-slung concrete buildings and sheet metal fences.

Although some foreigners have an image of Jamaica as a laid-back, sun-soaked slice of paradise where unhurried people smoke marijuana without a care, marijuana use is illegal and many islanders are socially conservative churchgoers who quietly endure stereotypes of their country.

Still, a few Jamaicans aren't aggrieved with Mugabe, who received a top government honor during a 1996 visit. They note that their island is the largest producer of marijuana in the Caribbean and that far more women graduate from university than men, and say Mugabe may have a point, even if he was being overly broad by disparaging Jamaican men.

"Is President Robert Mugabe really on to something? Certainly, his observation that our 'universities are full of women' while our 'men want to sing and do not go to colleges' is a truism, which none can deny," Northern Caribbean University administrator Vincent Peterkin wrote in a letter to the editor of The Jamaica Gleaner newspaper.

The government's political opposition has also waded into the debate, urging Jamaica to demand an apology from Mugabe.

"If true, it is startling that someone who has himself claimed that his country is a victim of imperceptions fed by the international media should be using these misconceptions of Jamaican society to describe our people," said Olivia Grange, spokeswoman for the Jamaica Labor Party.

Jamaican Information Minister Sandrea Falconer said Wednesday that the foreign affairs ministry, led by A.J. Nicholson, was still trying to confirm if Mugabe made the remarks.

"I know his ministry is still trying to authenticate the source, and after we will respond," Falconer said in a brief phone interview.

In a written statement, Nicholson stressed that "Jamaican men and women from all walks of life have made valuable contributions to national development and have made their mark on the world stage."

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Associated Press writer Gillian Gotora in Harare, Zimbabwe, contributed to this report. [/b]

Rossikk: Englishman crying louder than the bereaved. Mr Telegraph writer, where is the ''biggest surviving forest in the UK today?''

Yeah... sold to loggers 2 centuries ago in your drive to industrialisation.

Spare us your tears.

never a bad idea to learn from others mistakes.

Liberia: Forests to Be Flattened By Secret Logging Contracts - Outcome of Liberian President's Investigation Critical

http://allafrica.com/stories/201209040671.html


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Photo: Boakai Fofana/allAfrica
A field recently cleared of forest in western Liberia to make way for a plantation.

the latest chapter


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIig75RuK6g