Is a documentary film about the more than 1,000 women accused of witchcraft in northern Ghana living as refugees, where they have to pay for protection from the chief who runs the refuge.
Listen to an interview with Yaba Badoe and Amin Amama the film's producers on
Africa Today - April 25, 2011 with Walter Taylor
You can click to visit The witches of Gambaga website. at witchesofgambaga(dot)com
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Sunday, May 8, 2011
YOUNG AFRICAN AMERICANS AGAINST MEDIA STEREOTYPES
YAAAMS
YOUNG AFRICAN AMERICANS AGAINST MEDIA STEREOTYPES
If you think the media is mis or under-representing African Americans then you should visit this website frequently, bookmark this website, participate in the dialog via the contents section and share it with your friends and family.
YOUNG AFRICAN AMERICANS AGAINST MEDIA STEREOTYPES
If you think the media is mis or under-representing African Americans then you should visit this website frequently, bookmark this website, participate in the dialog via the contents section and share it with your friends and family.
Osama Bin Laden's Nubian Concubine, sets the record straight
In the aftermath of September 11th Kola Boof raised more than eyebrows with the assertion that she and Osama Bin Laden were once lovers. Check out her side of the story, it's a different take from the that of the media, to be sure.
by Kola Boof
In 2002 when the London Guardian newspaper outed my forced sexual relationship with terrorist Osama Bin Laden, the American media initially had no problem with revelations that Somi kept an Egyptian-Sudanese mistress in Morocco in 1996. My birth name, Naima Bint Harith, summoned visions of an Arab-raised aristocrat who they assumed would look like Cher. When they found out I was not only Black—but looked fully Black—and that I’d been adopted and raised by Black Americans in the United States and returned as an adult to North Africa as a model-actress, they immediately announced that I was less attractive than Prince Charles’ mistress Camilla Parker Bowles or President Clinton’s mistress Monica Lewinsky and that it couldn’t possibly be true.
Though I was featured in a two-part interview with MSNBC where I was billed as “Former Mistress of Osama Bin Laden,” and not alleged-former mistress, and was allowed to tell my story in my own words—Peter Bergen, supposedly the world’s preeminent Bin Laden expert, insisted I was making up the story and other American experts claimed that the billionaire “bin ladin” family had an upper class etiquette that would not allow an “overtly religious non-sexual” Arab Muslim Osama to have a Black mistress (yet two of Somi’s twenty-five children are black and his Syrian grandmother would be considered a Black woman in the United States). Connie Chung and her producers at CNN asked my lawyer point blank, “Why would a man of Bin Laden’s wealth and stature have a Black mistress?”
"Still, I am glad that I will not end up like impregnated twelve year old slave Sally Hemmings and so many other Black concubines—raped and erased beneath hundreds of years only to resurface with their dehumanization portrayed as a love story in a television mini-series. Rarely do African women victimized on African soil get to write their own truth. I, Kola Boof, stand by mine."
Read complete Article from The Atlanta Post.
by Kola Boof
In 2002 when the London Guardian newspaper outed my forced sexual relationship with terrorist Osama Bin Laden, the American media initially had no problem with revelations that Somi kept an Egyptian-Sudanese mistress in Morocco in 1996. My birth name, Naima Bint Harith, summoned visions of an Arab-raised aristocrat who they assumed would look like Cher. When they found out I was not only Black—but looked fully Black—and that I’d been adopted and raised by Black Americans in the United States and returned as an adult to North Africa as a model-actress, they immediately announced that I was less attractive than Prince Charles’ mistress Camilla Parker Bowles or President Clinton’s mistress Monica Lewinsky and that it couldn’t possibly be true.
Though I was featured in a two-part interview with MSNBC where I was billed as “Former Mistress of Osama Bin Laden,” and not alleged-former mistress, and was allowed to tell my story in my own words—Peter Bergen, supposedly the world’s preeminent Bin Laden expert, insisted I was making up the story and other American experts claimed that the billionaire “bin ladin” family had an upper class etiquette that would not allow an “overtly religious non-sexual” Arab Muslim Osama to have a Black mistress (yet two of Somi’s twenty-five children are black and his Syrian grandmother would be considered a Black woman in the United States). Connie Chung and her producers at CNN asked my lawyer point blank, “Why would a man of Bin Laden’s wealth and stature have a Black mistress?”"Still, I am glad that I will not end up like impregnated twelve year old slave Sally Hemmings and so many other Black concubines—raped and erased beneath hundreds of years only to resurface with their dehumanization portrayed as a love story in a television mini-series. Rarely do African women victimized on African soil get to write their own truth. I, Kola Boof, stand by mine."
Read complete Article from The Atlanta Post.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
People want to see Osama Bin Laden Death Photo
"I have wondered where the photos have been. I just assumed the photos would get plastered everywhere," said Abigail Carter, whose husband, Arron, was killed in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. When she heard that bin Laden was dead Sunday, the news brought a feeling of numbness.
"That photo [of Saddam Hussein] became iconic. It was sort of the face of defeat," she said. "It's been kind of strange, the burial at sea, the very fast DNA. ... I's just been sort of, did this really happen or was this all concocted somehow? It would be reassuring in some sense if the photos were released."
Now Public
Osama bin Laden Is Dead
Osama bin Laden Is Dead
President Obama addressed the nation on Sunday, May 1, and indeed confirmed the news that Osama bin Laden, one of the most wanted terrorists in the world, has been killed.
This is the result of a US action in Pakistan, and he was killed by US personnel. (White House live stream: Osama bin Laden dead)
The United States has bin Laden's body in their possession, and they will confirm that he is dead. (Transcript: Obama Speech on Osama bin Laden's Death)
Osama bin Laden Dead May 1 2011: Obama Confirms Bin Laden Death
This result is something that has been the target of many military actions over the years, but President Obama has confirmed that Osama bin Laden is now dead.
Now the burden of proof will be very important, as the US will likely have to show the body at the very least.Aljazeera English
Taliban demand proof
The Taliban in Afghanistan said on Tuesday that they questioned whether bin Laden was actually dead.
"As the Americans did not provide any acceptable evidence to back up their claim, and as the other aides close to Osama bin Laden have not confirmed or denied the death ... the Islamic Emirate considers any assertion premature," Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said.
The United Nations' top human rights official called on the US on Tuesday to give the UN details about bin Laden's killing and said that all counter-terrorism operations must respect international law.
"This was a complex operation and it would be helpful if we knew the precise facts surrounding his killing," Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement to the Reuters news agency.
( read more at Aljazeera English)
Monday, May 2, 2011
IS OSAMA BIN LADEN REALLY DEAD???
Is Osama really dead. If so WHEN and HOW did he die?
I find it difficult to believe that the US would execute Osama Bin Laden and the proceed to destroy all the evidence ,then, dump the body into the sea. This story has all the elements of a lie. How can all these people who have been doubting that the president was born in the United States even with having seen a birth certificate, believe, with virtually hearsay evidence that Bin Laden was killed in Pakistan and disposed of at sea? I'm even wondering if he wasn't already dead, possibly even before 9/11and now they want to eliminate the possibility of this being disclosed. For me it leaves the unanswered question; Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden?
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