Essay

Uganda/Africa: In the Land of Human Sacrifice

By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong, Ottawa, Canada

In and out of Kampala, Uganda’s capital, the City, supposed to radiate enlightenment to some of Uganda’s dark ancient cultural practices, has failed to do so. The City is entrapped in obscurity. “The villages and farming communities that surround Uganda’s capital, Kampala, are gripped by fear.” Human sacrifices, the BBC World TV reports, are on the prowl.  For some time, Kampala is darkened by the denial of child sacrifices. Modern technology, as the BBC investigation aptly used, is helping to track Uganda’s and Africa’s malignity and putting the refutation to shame. Some part of Kampala’s mind has gone into denial and avoidance.

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There were Africans in America before the arrival of Columbus

In the little church at Esquipultas, Guatemala, is the image of the Black Christ to which thousands of Indians journey annually from all parts of Central America, and even from Mexico and South America.  The spot has become a shrine or Mecca for the Indians, and for hundreds, even thousands of miles, they travel to the obscure Guatemalan village carrying with them all of their possessions in order to have them sanctified at the famous church. 

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There were Africans in America before the arrival of Columbus

Africans in Pre-Columbian America:The Politics of Historical Excavation

(Part 1 of a seminal paper presented at the University of Belize on September 7, 2011)

By Floyd W. Hayes, III, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer

Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University

As an undergraduate student at North Carolina Central University in the early 1960s, I took African and Black American history courses with Professor Caulbert A. Jones.  He had been a professor there since the 1930s, and was revered by generations of NCCU students who had studied with him regardless of their majors.  During his African history lectures, Jones raised a number of questions that stimulated my interest.

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Feature: Africa & Development

Democracy or Prosperity, which comes first in Africa’s bid for prosperity?

By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong

As Africa’s democracy gradually evolves, the arguments are whether Africa should concentrate on creating prosperity first and then grow its democracy later or build up its democracy first and then use it to develop its prosperity. This thinking has come about because of the on-going democratic revolutions occurring in Africa, in places such as Libya, Tunisia and Egypt, and multi-party democratic elections after elections have become recurring rituals.

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