Papers
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Therapy Strategy to Remedy African Instability By Rais Neza Boneza
Diagnosis: Negative Leadership In the 60s, most of the African countries snatched precipitately their independences from the colonialists. Most of the time without a broad and unify vision to reconcile the leadership and the popular emancipatory aspirations of the people. In this context, without considering the specificity of the continent history, the victory of emancipation was short-lived and aborted. The … Read the rest
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Part.4. African’s Peacefull Means: Micro-cultural aspects of violence in Africa
From the Book Peace By African’s Peaceful Means By Raïs Neza Boneza With micro-cultural aspects, we shall concentrate our inquiry on local culture and customs. Africans are d… Read the rest
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LUO NYATITI MUSIC FROM KENYA
Nyatiti is an eight-stringed plucked lyre from Kenya. It is a classical instrument used by the Luo people located in the Nyanza western region in Kenya. It is about three feet long. The player of Nyatiti holds it to his chest, seated on a low stool, with the base firmly to the ground. Usually it is played together … Read the rest
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Part.4. African’s Peacefull Means: structural Violence in Africa
The last decades in Africa have been marred by unprecedented levels of political, ethnic, and transnational conflict. This continent is one of the major battlegrounds of global forces; it is the most marginalized areas of the world. More than thirty wars have been fought in Africa since 1970, and most of these have been internal rather than inter-state wars. In … Read the rest
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Part.3. African’s Peacefull Means: Etnic Relations Theory By Rais Neza Boneza
Proposal: A bioceanic confederation from the Indian to the Atlantic oceans, including Uganda and Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi, and the two Congos, maybe more countries, trading East-West with Asia and America, as much as North-South could one of the possible approach as proposed by the Transcend Network (see www.transcend.org) could allow for decentralisation, softer boundaries, and ‘automatic’ land reform … Read the rest
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Is music activism cleansing the soul of Europe?
Reflecting on David Rovics, Kristian Svenson And Elona Planman passage in Trondheim, Norway. By Raïs Neza Boneza With the recent refugee a.ka. migrants and economic crisis shadowing Europe, there is hope after all, few artists are breaking the barrier of the usual “brouhaha of humanitarian concert a la Bono and Geldof”. Recently, it easy to see that the … Read the rest