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PAV HEADLINES Vol. 27 January 2010
PROPERLY POSITION YOUR BUSINESS WITH PAV... the true eyes, ears & heart of all Africa!!! We mean Business when we say we take your business beyond the borders, numbers and surface. PAV, Out and About All-Africa. Get Connected now and always. Interested? Request a quote and further details by postal or email: 310 College St., CPO 819; Barbourville, KY 40906 or pav87central@yahoo.com. Thanks much for your consideration.
PROPERLY POSITION YOUR BUSINESS WITH PAV... the true eyes, ears & heart of all Africa!!! We mean Business when we say we take your business beyond the borders, numbers and surface. PAV, Out and About All-Africa. Get Connected now and always. Interested? Request a quote and further details by postal or email: 310 College St., CPO 819; Barbourville, KY 40906 or pav87central@yahoo.com. Thanks much for your consideration.Editorial: Boarding a plane in Nigeria and transiting through Europe attempts by a young Nigeria to destroy a plane on US soil are foiled. On its way to Angola by road to participate at the ongoing African Nations Cup, the bus carrying the Togolese national team is ambushed in the Cambinda region of Angola. PAV weighs in on the meaning of such trying times in African Values and Terrorist Threats. The courageous actions of Mutallab Snr who drew the attention of western Embassies to the threats his son posed represents true African values that should not be lost to the rest of the world, our PAV editorial argues.
Politics: President Umaru Yar’Adua’s presidency appears irretrievably heading down the widening gyre of the politics of his lingering illness. After nearly three years in office, marked by poor health and five controversial medical trips abroad, some people appear to be running out of patience with the hide-and-seek game over the health of the president and what they say is the consequent lull in the pace of governance. Reactions over his present hospitalisation, “medical check-up” in official parlance, in Saudi Arabia climaxed with the audacious call for his resignation by a group of 53 eminent Nigerians. In Banking on a Morbid Assumption, a heated polity comes under the radar
Interviews: Inspired by the emergence of relatively young and dynamic leaderships around Africa and the world, Dr Fomunyoh affirms with strong conviction that the time for a generational revolution in Cameroon is long overdue. From the raison d’etre of the Cameroonian forums he has addressed notably in USA and Canada, to how beatable candidate Biya is, the situation of the opposition, the ideal profile of Cameroon’s next leader, challenges before Biya’s successor and the possibility of Presidential ambitions for himself, Dr Fomunyoh bares it all in this exclusive interview with PAV’s Managing Editor Ajong Mbapndah LPartnerships: Although India is an economic powerhouse in its own right, so much of its growth in recent years has been eclipsed by rival China’s shadow. Talk about India’s investments in Africa often steers towards 'how it seems to be playing catch up with China', writes Nelly Nyagah in African markets making sense for India
Development:With tens of millions of hectares of land across Africa auctioned off to corporations and governments in secretive deals, Khadija Sharife in The South Africa-Congo concession: Exploitation or salvation? takes a closer look at a set of agreements between the Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) and a group of white South African farmers. Will this partnership come at the expense of local people, Sharife asks, or could it generate models for freeing the continent from food insecurity through the sharing of resources and humanity?
Religion:Good news is now from Europe, who are depressed by the fact that Archbishop Milingo is defrocked to the lay state? The ball has gone back to the Vatican. They have written from Europe that finally they have understood what the Vatican thinks of the laity. The last tail in the Christian community, to be swayed anyhow by the ruling clerics in the Roman Catholic Church. In The Lay state: clerical dirty debris dust-bin. Archbishop shares his thoughts on what it meansto be reduced to a lay state.Education: Every once in a while you read a book that opens a whole new world to you. Or, it confirms, in a very subtle manner, some ideas that want to take shape in your mind. Such a book never allows you to rest; it literally comes to roost in your head at the most unsuspecting times. One such book is Doreen Baingana’s collection of short stories, 'Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe'. Chielo Zona Eze praises Doreen Baingana's 'Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe', describing Baingana as a 'clever wizard who conjures a world of possibilities in the reader’s mind'.
Oddly Enough:For 37 days, Investigative Reporter, EMMANUEL MAYAH, traveled a total of 4,318 kilometres across seven countries and the Sahara desert in the company of African migrants on their way to Europe. From Nigeria to Benin Republic, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and finally Libya, he survived to tell the story of human traffickers, sex slavery in transit camps, starvation, desert bandits, arduous toil in a salt mine, cruel thirst and deaths in the hot desert. Mayah’s must read tale is titled Europe by desert:Tears of African migrants
Sports: As exciting as the African Nations Cup is, the event is dreaded by many European clubs, the reason? It drains their clubs of the best talents. In Anxious Moment for European League as Nations Cup Drains Players Emmanuel Zelifac takes a look at what European Clubs go through in the absence assesses the tournament thus far.
Oddly Enough:For 37 days, Investigative Reporter, EMMANUEL MAYAH, traveled a total of 4,318 kilometres across seven countries and the Sahara desert in the company of African migrants on their way to Europe. From Nigeria to Benin Republic, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and finally Libya, he survived to tell the story of human traffickers, sex slavery in transit camps, starvation, desert bandits, arduous toil in a salt mine, cruel thirst and deaths in the hot desert. Mayah’s must read tale is titled Europe by desert:Tears of African migrantsSports: As exciting as the African Nations Cup is, the event is dreaded by many European clubs, the reason? It drains their clubs of the best talents. In Anxious Moment for European League as Nations Cup Drains Players Emmanuel Zelifac takes a look at what European Clubs go through in the absence assesses the tournament thus far.
