TRANSCEND Africa
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PART 6. African’s Peaceful Means: Transcending Culturology as a science of a Culture of Peace
It is essential to analyze civilizations (rather than states), or economic or political systems, as units, in the spirit of seeking solutions rather than making condemnations. Even if the deep roots of violence and war are part of the cosmology which in turn is collective and subconscious, there may be ways of breaking the collective into sub-collectives and individuals … Read the rest
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Part.5 African’s Peacefull Means: Macro-cultural aspects
Four forces have been major cause of the development of violence in the African macro-cultural level: religion, technology, economy, and empires. These have not always acted separately and often have supported each other. For example, the expansion of Christianity started with the conversion of Emperor Constantine I of Rome in the year 313. The religious conversion of an emperor started … Read the rest
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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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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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Lyrics: We’ve Had Enough By Michael Jackson
Love was taken from a young lifeAnd no one told her whyHer direction has a dimlightFrom one more violent crime She innocently questioned why Why her father had to die She asked the men in blue How is it that you get to chooseWho will live and who will dieDid god say that … Read the rest