Blouin and Kennedy have written about the current controversy regarding Cleopatra as a Black Pharaoh.1 It will be argued that they have engaged in massive misdirection and are false friends. 1  Misrepresenting Afrocentrism: Afro-centrism: there is a great tendency to ascribe to ‘Afrocentrism’ any silly idea the commentator may have. Dr Amro Ali states: ‘ spare a thought for the previous six unfortunate Cleopatras who ruled Egypt and yet no Egyptian, Greek, Macedonian or Afrocentricist ever mentions them or…

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Paul Craig Roberts has performed an amazing tour de force. He has modernised the defence of apartheid and anti-semitism.1 Why should his defence of apartheid be important? The reason is because it has taken root among young academic members of the far right, who camouflage their true identity with its unusual arguments. It is used to justify racial oppression with new arguments. His key argument starts: ‘Why is racial separation worse than class separation? Why does one get legal…

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Contemporary African intellectuals are playing a large role in the underdevelopment of Africa. Put more clearly, the failure of contemporary African intellectuals  has played a major role in the underdevelopment of contemporary Africa. In the pre-Independnece period, there were many African intellectuals whose instinct was to be entirely sceptical about any aspects of the Western narrative. This scepticism can be seen in how Eric Williams made the effort to look at the pattern of the British slave trade, how…

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There is much astonishment about the behaviour of the neo-con establishment and the different stories being told about Nordstream. There is also astonishment at the scale of lies and deceit about Covid and mRNA vaccines. How can they think we are all so stupid? Let us stop and think. Consider the imperial expansion of Europe which is mostly portrayed as a macho, a superior expression of white personality. When the Portuguese first set sail for the Americas using Chinese…

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Angela Merkel has stated that she negotiated in bad faith with Russia, and that the Minsk accords were only a time-saving device to allow Ukraine to build itself up1.  Many commentators appeared shocked by these admissions. However, any close reading of US policy in Southern Africa would have shown that this sort of behaviour was the standard operating procedure for the US. For reasons which we will reveal later, Western commentators ignore the evidence trail from Africa, as if…

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Josep Borrell has a famous role as an advertiser for the EU’s elite’s view of Africa. Russia would have found it hard to develop a believable media campaign that portrayed EU leaders as boneheaded racists who think Africans are gloriously ignorant and stupid. Borrell notoriously said the EU was  a garden and the rest of the world was a jungle. (Note 1) Now Borrell has put the other foot in his mouth. He is now reported as saying that…

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Scott Ritter – US strategic dysfunction Scott Ritter has suggested a wise and reasonable analysis.  (note 1) But he has a serious weakness in that he underestimates the devil. Appian warns against such a dilemma. He describes the position of Russia as seeking a ‘soft landing for Europe’. What he does not consider is the risk of dealing with the neo-cons if the motive of some neo-cons was to exit with as much damage as possible to all remaining…

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Luana Maroja has published a piece in Common Sense. (Note 1) Her concern is apparently with freedom of speech, but she opens with: ‘If you had asked me about academic freedom five years ago, I would have complained about the obsession with race, gender and ethnicity ..’ This is a strange. How is concern with race, gender and ethnicity related to academic freedom, or is this coded speech? How does concern about race and gender become an ‘obsession’? Is…

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