On December 11, 2008, in the Cameroonian capital, Yaounde, an important event occured without our notice - the 12th General Assembly of CODESRIA. During this important gathering, a Gambian scholar named Professor Ebrima Sall was elected Executive
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Mr. Omari Asante, Master of Science, Global Affairs, New York University
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According to Professor Joseph Nye, Soft Power “is the ability to influence others to get them to do what you want.” In other words, Soft Power is the ability to exert influence on others in order to get
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Binneh S. Minteh, Editorial Page Editor
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The conflict in the southern Senegalese province of Casamance has been one of the most complicated conflicts in West Africa over the years. The 300 km tropical strip of land stretching from the Atlantic Ocean between the tiny republic of the Gambia
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Leader assassinated on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 PM
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I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
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United Nations, New York
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"...The two great champions of freedom, the USSR and the United States, had joined hands-prompted, they said, by humanitarian motives-to support the monstrous perversion of the principle of self-determination in Palestine. They had disagreed on everything constructive in the United Nations and had agreed on only one thing-the partition of Palestine. They had prepared for that destructive policy for divergent motives, the one to please Jewish voters in the United States, the other to permit tens of thousands of immigrants to inundate Palestine in order to propagate its theories and political...", said Mr. HUSSEINI (Arab Higher Committee) at the 31st meeting of the Ad Hoc COMMITTEE ON THE PALESTINIAN QUESTION at the United Nation on November 24, 1947 at 2.30 p.m. in New York. Please read the entire SUMMARY RECORD OF THE THIRTY-FIRST MEETING to understand the Mid-east crisis.
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MaNyima Sarr guides a class of Manlius Pebble Hill students through an African Dance class earlier this month at the school's auditorium. Sarr and her family are working to build an academy for girls in her native Gambia. Photo: Frank Ordonez / The Post-Standard
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MaNyima Sarr, left her parents' home in Gambia, West Africa, at age 12 to attend school in the United States, a move her family felt was
