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A 'Euro-debate' Needs a Eurogeneration
(Opinions)
29-04-2004
by Yasmary Mora
Every five years, the European elections timidly tap Europe’s citizens on the shoulder and receive a no less reserved response in return. So let’s give this election a debate which goes beyond national borders.
Only one in three voters...
Amar
(Poetry)
16-04-2004
by Felipe Oliveira de Sousa
Amar é a desventura do sofrer
É a razão do ser
É o motivo do viver
Amar é algo inexprimível
Mal se sente
Quando se sente, porém
Arde a alma
Irradia os pensamentos
Ilumina o coração
Amar é um sorriso sincero
É a paz interior
É um...
Born For Love
(Poetry)
28-03-2004
by Tina T. H. Lee
A leaf amidst the forest, a boat amidst the ocean, a person amidst society...
With Love we were born, with Fear we were fed;
Survival, solitude, search... Fear accumulates, Love is forgotten.
Then, with every step, we go further; with every...
Can Europe Speak With One Voice?
(Opinions)
29-04-2004
by Yasmary Mora
Should the EU leave world diplomacy to the United States or concentrate on developing its multilateralist possibilities? The foreign policy debate.
Foreign Policy has been somewhat of a headache for the EU. The last decade has seen, amongst...
Child Abuse
(Opinions)
31-03-2004
by Uzair Sultan
Child abuse is a global phenomenon. It occurs in all countries and in all societies. It involves the physical, sexual, emotional abuse and neglect of children. It is nearly always preventable. The abuse of children is an abuse of their rights as...
Exodus from the Rural
(Opinions)
12-12-2002
by Rashid Zuberu
People have waged numerous wars and campaigns around the globe in aid of women children and the human race in general. Success has been achieved on various occasions and on the other hand failure. Nevertheless, our part of the world has gone under...
Forgiving our role models
(Opinions)
30-03-2004
by Samson Nduleme Onwusonye
I read with great interest and concern what Onyinye, the National Project coordinator, TakingITGlobal Nigeria, wrote about my dear country Nigeria recently in an article she called “I fear Nigeria’.
I must confess she did capture the near...
He was there
(Poetry)
27-03-2004
by Linda Adzanku
He was there.
When they came from nowhere,
He was there.
My gold and my day they took
All they left was that old book
Mighty men robbed me and deprived me
Of my liberty to be.
They snatched my babe from my womb
And sold him to hungry...
I am what I am
(Poetry)
23-04-2004
by neema mbeyu
Oh they call me crazy,
Is crazy my name,
No, its because of what I do.
I could chose to be what I want to be,
Despite my age, height, education, background
I have to stop making excuses and face one on one.
Does it apply to you?
I know...
Inner Courts of our Hope
(Poetry)
23-04-2004
by Andrew Lauman
There is a beauty that is so sweet,
A love that moves beyond words,
Happiness moving towards an unseen depth,
Embracing the inner courts of our hope.
Dancing in a silhouette pose,
Gracing even the darkness of dark,
Hatred having no hold,...
Innocence Lost
(Poetry)
20-03-2004
by Uzair Sultan
So clearly do the crystal eyes speak,
Such depth in their mute words,
How can one but not feel touched,
By the way they see the world?
I saw the eyes of the naked child,
The truth in them, so clear and bright,
The desperation,...
International Year of Rice
(Interviews)
30-03-2004
by Yasmary Mora
“ The global community must work together to increase rice production in a sustainable way that will benefit farmers, women, children and especially the poor.”
FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf thus equipped at the inauguration of the...
It's Never Our Fault
(Opinions)
21-04-2004
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
“Oh you cannot blame me for that. I only did what my mother told me to do. If she were here, she would tell you so herself”. “But that is idiotic. You have to take the responsibility and you alone”.
There are few people who are ready to take...
It's No Addiction
(Poetry)
29-04-2004
by Shawn Stoddard
I see your orange eyes,
Scream like the midnight skies.
The clock is ticking
& somebody needs to fall into my
Sights and the scapegoat plan,
Strategies marked in the sand.
They want the credit
But it was me,
No one else just me....
Let's End Terror: New Standards of Global Terrorism Require New Models of Prevention
(Opinions)
12-03-2004
by Zorica Vukovic
Thinking how to find a source of “all that evil” of modern terrorism, the first thing that everyone needs to realize is that it has grown into serious global problem. It has nothing more to do with “killing people as a warning, threat, revenge or...
Marital Violence
(Opinions)
31-03-2004
by Chii Torti
Whenever marital violence is mentioned, people's minds just race off to physical violence, but that is not the only issue. It also includes psychological battering of the wife by the husband. Marital violence is worse in our society were women's...
Moments
(Poetry)
30-03-2004
by Enyinna Onwusonye
I wonder why a moment of darkness exists in human life.
A moment of desperation and confusion,
A moment of frustration and when you feel like you weren’t born,
A moment when everything seems bleak and difficult,
A moment that breeds anguish...
My Part of the Sin
(Poetry)
25-03-2004
by Madan G. Gandhi
The sight
Of broken limbs;
The maimed and dead
Brought home
Amidst beating of drums.
The shrieks
Of babes and women,
Of wailing bangles----
The sobs of vermillioned earth.
With every sip of wine,
Drink blood
And suffer for my part of...
Nature's Gift To Man
(Short Story)
29-04-2004
by Yasmary Mora
Among the snow capped mountain
Between the wooded valley
I am uplifted highly
To see the silver specs of the rising sun
The golden rays intermixed with diamond linings
Falling like the droplets of rain
And coming to bless the day.
It...
Plus de misère...
(Opinions)
31-03-2004
by Tina T. H. Lee
Lundi matin. Période libre. Je trotte tranquillement vers mon petit salon – Second Cup. Sur mon chemin, un homme me tend un "Metro", je le prends, haussant les épaules - il m’arrive de lire ce journal gratuit de temps à autre. Enfin, je...
Poverty and Corruption
(Opinions)
24-03-2004
by Chii Torti
Poverty is a concept that has slowly but surely developed ugly roots in all parts of the world; from the deserts of Sudan to the tropics of Liberia, from the war-ravished Afghanistan through the Asian lands of Cambodia. It is a shame that with so...
Proud to be a Nigerian
(Poetry)
26-03-2004
by Oluyemisi Joel-Osebor (Nee Agboola)
The Giant of Africa you are;
With lots of forests, vegetation and swamps in the south, dry land in the North – a unique blend
You stand out amongst equals
Some people say you are a corrupt nation but I chose to see your good sides
It takes a...
Rank Betrayal
(Poetry)
25-03-2004
by Madan G. Gandhi
Whom may the helpless babe complain?
When slain by none else
Than on whose knees
He trustfully sleeps?
When his trustee, his ruler, his priest
Gives him away in betrayal
To wolves in sheep's clothing
Whom should he call for succour?...
Returning Back to Europe
(Opinions)
30-04-2004
by Sandrella
I myself come from Latvia, one of the Baltic States, historically Eastern Europe but geographically – Northern Europe. It’s only a couple of days left until the official day of entry - the 1st of May.
There is quite an amount of people who are...
Room 101
(Poetry)
29-04-2004
by Shawn Stoddard
As if to drink a holy wine
And let it trickle down my face
Only to hope your incarnation will appear
And conquer fear.
My thirst of bodily fluids & fornications,
Misty twilight engulfs
The spirit of religious origin.
I have corrupted...
Rural Broadcasting and Good Governance
(Opinions)
8-03-2004
by AHM Bazlur Rahman
Good Governance is the most conversant among the development issues that are being discussed in Bangladesh now. Not only the in government departments, but all the non-government lobbies are also preparing to face out the challenges of development...
Symptom 6
(Poetry)
29-04-2004
by Shawn Stoddard
A final message:
We reinvent the words.
Why won't they change their minds?
Their satellites came crashing to the sea.
The dolls lost their dresses and
We reinvented the world.
But with the hull collapse,
I feel the rushing water...
The Good Life
(Short Story)
8-04-2006
by Kelsey Page
Part of being an undisciplined man, meant that he had been an undisciplined boy. As a child, he had wandered aimlessly around the empty church hallways, while the masses of sinning, good Christians would confess their souls to the wooden sticks...
The Last Call
(Poetry)
1-05-2004
by Simon
With passing tears
And sorrows tear
Like lighten light
In distant night
And thunderstorm
In fire form
Spreading shield
With bitter sheet
Life is lost
And time is loose
Times of thought
With deeper touch
And life was left
In...
The wedding project
(Opinions)
24-03-2004
by Samson Nduleme Onwusonye
The wedding day for an average Nigerian lady is the happiest day of her life. It is that day set aside for her to dance and swivel, first to the alter in a glittering white apparel that depicts purity; where she is given out by a proud and smiling...
Unconventional Revolution
(Opinions)
29-04-2004
by Yasmary Mora
FACED WITH A YAWNING DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT, THE POLITICIANS OF EUROPE HAVE OFFERED CITIZENS THE RIGHT TO PETITION
“I have reached the peak of desperation!” In March 2000, 300 unemployed Romanian miners, passed through the mining valley of Lupeni...
We All Fall
(Poetry)
30-04-2004
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
We all fall.
Only pride pipes otherwise,
But it takes a fall to know,
That we aren’t that perfect.
Time changes it all.
The wrong isn’t in the fall,
It is in our disposition.
In feeling we should never...
Witch Hunts
(Opinions)
26-03-2004
by Nandita Saikia
Britain passed a Witchcraft Act in 1735. The last person to be tried under it was Helen Duncan, a Spiritualist from Edinburgh, Scotland who claimed to be able to summon the dead. Despite her frequently challenged authenticity, she was tried for...
Young Griot
(Opinions)
10-03-2004
by Kalimah Priforce
I remember my first Black History Month. As a group home kid who avoided fights by staying away from the popular television set, I found my entertainment through books. Many of them were about Black inventors, Black scientists, Civil Rights...
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