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This Blog is more than entertainment,
It's a collection of some of the big Human Rights Actions to make the World a better place.
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African Success: Ben Okri

African Success: Ben OkriBen Okri OBE FRSL (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Having spent his early childhood in London, he and his family returned to Nigeria in 1968. He later came back to England, embarking on studies at the University of Essex. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Westminster (1997) and the University of Essex (2002), and was awarded an OBE in 2001.
Since he published his first novel, Flowers and Shadows (1980), Okri has risen to an international acclaim, and he is often described as one of Africa's greatest writers.[citation needed] His best known work, The Famished Road, was awarded the 1991 Booker Prize. He has also won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, and was given a Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Awards

1987 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa Region, Best Book) - Incidents at the Shrine
1987 Paris Review/Aga Khan Prize for Fiction - Incidents at the Shrine
1988 The Guardian Fiction Prize - Stars of the New Curfew (shortlisted)
1991 Booker Prize for Fiction - The Famished Road
1993 Chianti Ruffino-Antico Fattore International Literary Prize - The Famished Road
1994 Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy) -The Famished Road
1995 Crystal Award (World Economic Forum)
2000 Premio Palmi (Italy) - Dangerous Love
2008 International Literary Award Novi Sad (International Novi Sad Literature Festival, Serbia).
2010 D Lit awarded by School of Oriental and African Studies

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Okri
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African Success:Hauwa Ibrahim

African Success:Hauwa IbrahimHauwa Ibrahim born in 1967, is a Nigerian Human Rights lawyer.She received the Sakharov Prize in 2005. ,The Prize was established in December 1988 by the European Parliament as a means to honour individuals or organisations who have dedicated their lives to the defence of human rights and freedom of thought. As of 2010, the prize is accompanied by a monetary award of ¤50,000.

Source:http://www.africansuccess.org/visuFiche.php?id=1004&lang=en
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#Posted on Wednesday, 25 May 2011 at 4:46 AM

Greatest African:Archibishop Luwum

Greatest African:Archibishop LuwumLuwum was born in the village of Mucwini in the Kitgum District to Acholi parents. He attended Gulu High School and Boroboro Teacher Training College, after which he taught at a primary school. Luwum converted to Christianity in 1948, and in 1949 he went to Buwalasi Theological College. In 1950 he was attached to St. Philip's Church in Gulu. He was ordained a deacon in 1953, and the following year he was ordained a priest. He served in the upper Nile Diocese of Uganda and later in the Diocese of Mbale. In 1961 he was consecrated bishop of the Anglican Church Province of northern Uganda at Gulu. After five years he was appointed archbishop of the Metropolitan Province of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Boga-Zaire, becoming the second African to hold this position

Archbishop Luwum was a leading voice in criticizing the excesses of the Idi Amin regime that assumed power in 1971. In 1977, Archbishop Luwum delivered a note of protest to dictator Idi Amin against the policies of arbitrary killings and unexplained disappearances. Shortly afterwards the archbishop and other leading churchmen were accused of treason.
On 16 February 1977, Luwum was arrested together with two cabinet ministers, Erinayo Wilson Oryema and Charles Oboth Ofumbi. The same day Idi Amin convened a rally in Kampala with the three accused present. A few other "suspects" were paraded forth to read out "confessions" implicating the three men. The archbishop was accused of being an agent of the exiled former president Milton Obote, and for planning to stage a coup. The next day, Radio Uganda announced that the three had been killed when the car transporting them to an interrogation center had collided with another vehicle

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janani_Luwum
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#Posted on Tuesday, 24 May 2011 at 6:00 PM

Greatest African:António Agostinho Neto

Greatest African:António Agostinho NetoAntónio Agostinho Neto (September 17, 1922 – September 10, 1979) served as the first President of Angola (1975–1979), leading the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the war for independence and the civil war. His birthday is celebrated as National Heroes Day, a public holiday in Angola.

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agostinho_Neto
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#Posted on Tuesday, 24 May 2011 at 5:40 PM

Greatst African:Steve Biko

Greatst African:Steve BikoKing William's Town's hero:
Steve Biko 1946 - 1977
Bantu Steven Biko was born on 18 December 1946 in Ginsberg, a township outside King William's Town. Thirty years later, he was dead after being severely beaten while in police custody. Biko, best known of the leaders of the Black Consciousness Movement, is regarded as one of the greatest martyrs of the anti-apartheid struggle.
Biko's philosophy was that political freedom would only be achieved if blacks stopped feeling inferior to whites. This formed the heart of the Black Consciousness Movement. He believed that black people should lead the fight against apartheid.

Source:http://www.buffalocity.gov.za/visitors/biko.stm
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#Posted on Tuesday, 24 May 2011 at 5:33 PM

Greatest African:Boubacar Boris Diop

Greatest African:Boubacar Boris Diop 
Boubacar Boris Diop (born 1946 in Dakar) is a Senegalese novelist, journalist and screenwriter. His best known work, Murambi, le livre des ossements (Murambi: The Book of Bones), is the fictional account of a notorious massacre during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. He is also the founder of Sol, an independent newspaper in Senegal, and the author of many books, political works, plays and screenplays. Doomi Golo (2006) is one of the only novels ever written in Wolof,[citation needed] it deals with the life of a Senegalese Wolof family. The book was published by Papyrus Afrique, Dakar.

Source:http://www.culturebase.net/artist.php?3560
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#Posted on Tuesday, 24 May 2011 at 5:22 PM

Greatest African:Emile Derlin Zinsou

Greatest African:Emile Derlin ZinsouEmile Derlin Zinsou (born 23 March 1918) is a Beninese political figure who was the President of Dahomey (now Benin) from 17 July 1968 until 10 December 1969, supported by the military regime that took power in 1967. Zinsou also served in the French senate from 1955 to 1958. He was previously Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1962 to 1963 and again from 1965 to 1967. He is said to have opposed the one-party Marxist policies of Mathieu Kérékou, who ruled Benin from 1972 to 1990. Zinsou was present at the signing of the treaty that formed the African Union on 12 July 2000 in Togo. He was born in Ouidah.

Source:http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/657443/Emile-Derlin-Zinsou
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#Posted on Tuesday, 24 May 2011 at 5:16 PM

Greatest African:Jean-Luc Raharimanana

Greatest African:Jean-Luc RaharimananaJean-Luc Raharimanana (born June 26, 1967, Antananarivo, Madagascar) is a Malagasy writer in French.
He wrote his first book in his birth countryside, but he couldn't publish it because of the political situation . He went to France to study ethnolinguistic. He has been a teacher, a journalist and the writer of several books, which have been translated to German, English, Italian and Spanish. He describes the situation of poverty and corruption and the history of his homeland with a violent and lyrical style.

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Raharimanana
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#Posted on Tuesday, 24 May 2011 at 5:06 PM

Greatest African:Nuruddin Farah

Greatest African:Nuruddin FarahNuruddin Farah (born 1945, Baidoa, Italian Somaliland) Somali writer, Somalia's first novelist and first English-language author. His first published novel, From a Crooked Rib (1970), describes a woman's determination to maintain her dignity in a sexist society. His other works include a trilogy — Sweet and Sour Milk (1979), Sardines (1981), and Close Sesame (1983) — about life under an African dictatorship. Maps (1986) examines identity and boundaries. The political nature of his fiction forced him into exile, and he taught in Europe, North America, and elsewhere in Africa.

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#Posted on Tuesday, 24 May 2011 at 4:53 PM

Greatest Africans:Abdou Diouf

Greatest Africans:Abdou DioufAbdou Diouf
(born Sept. 7, 1935, Louga, Sen.) President of Senegal from 1981 to 2000. In 1960 Diouf joined the civil service and was appointed to a succession of posts, eventually serving as Senegal's prime minister (1970 – 81). Upon the retirement of President Léopold Senghor and in accordance with the constitution, Diouf became president in 1981 and was reelected three times. As president, he oversaw the creation of Senegambia, a loose confederation between The Gambia and Senegal that existed between 1982 and 1989. He served two terms as Organization of African Unity (OAU) chairman, and he was also chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Islamic Conference, and the G-15 nations. Diouf was defeated by Abdoulaye Wade in the 2000 presidential election.

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#Posted on Saturday, 21 May 2011 at 12:56 PM

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