"Britain's dirty war against Mau Mau"

Russia and Korea send dollar plummeting
The reign of the US dollar is obviously coming to its end
The rate of the American currency is sliding on the world markets again. The USD has dropped against the euro, the English pound, the Swiss frank, the Japanese yen and the Russian ruble. Yet another reduction of the US dollar rate occurred because of the decision of the South Korean Central Bank to convert a part of its dollar reserves into euros.

Scholars unearth Britain's dirty war against Mau Mau
Studies by two Western historians show colonial Britain used mass detention without trial, sadistic violence and bent justice far more than previously believed to suppress the revolt.
"Things got a little out of hand.
"By the time I cut his balls off he had no ears and his eyeball, the right one, I think, was hanging out of its socket. Too bad, he died before we got much out of him."

Britain 'shamed' on Mau Mau
BRITAIN used mass detention without trial and sadistic violence far more than previously thought to quell the Mau Mau revolt in 1950s Kenya, according to the latest research.

With Study of Mau Mau, Prof Creates Masterpiece
Over the past decade, Assistant Professor of History Caroline M. Elkins has carefully crafted her maiden work, a 500-page indictment of British authorities’ repression of the Mau Mau uprising in post-World War II Kenya. Imperial Reckoning is a composite of oral interviews and painstaking documentary research that already seems destined to become the authoritative work on an important but under-discussed episode in African history.

The Scalping of Cherokee Indian
A band of White men and Jews have just scalped a Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The victim is the scholar and eminent Cherokee Indian intellectual Ward Churchill. The "scalping party" is the university's Board of Regents, Colorado Governor Bill Owens and the media Jewish mogul Rupert Murdock through his lackey, the accused lecher Bill O'Reilly. Professor Churchill has been forced to resign from the chairmanship of his department and Governor Owens presently wants more of his scalp.

Second Thoughts on the Hotel Rwanda
With war still raging in the Eastern Congo for the fourth time since 1996, serious questions must be asked about the UN's inability to respond effectively. Former UN Secretary General Boutros-Ghali has been raising such questions ever since Washington vetoed his second mandate at the UN in November 1996. For the English version of my book Rwanda 1994, Colonialism Dies Hard, I interviewed Boutros-Ghali about the wars that have wreaked havoc on Central Africa and especially Rwanda and the former Zaire. His observations about the UN and the possible role of the CIA in the April 6, 1994 assassination of two African heads of state are stunning.

Black History Month's lessons lost on some whites
I'm glad Black History Month is just about over. Soon, we can all go back to believing that race only matters to race mongers, and that the average person doesn't care whether someone is black or white or Asian or Hispanic -- except maybe when they are choosing a neighborhood to live in, a school for their children, or a church service to attend.

Africa's leaders united to direct Togo's future
When Togo's military leaders installed the son of the country's longtime strongman as president this month, ignoring Togo's constitution, their actions seemed a throwback to an era in African history when coups and tyrannical governments were the rule and African leaders were reluctant to criticize one another, lest their own foibles come to light.

Dozens taking a bus to '23 massacre site
Tysha Wiggins learned of the thriving black town of Rosewood -- and the horrific massacre in the Central Florida settlement -- from her grandmother. Since then, she has wanted to discover for herself the mysterious grave site believed to hold remains of victims of the 1923 bloodshed in which a white mob destroyed the town.

New book documents first statewide civil rights movement in Florida
Decades before the Montgomery bus boycott, African Americans in Jacksonville, Florida, organized streetcar boycotts that forced the city to abandon efforts to segregate the system.

BOOK: Emancipation Betrayed : The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920 (American Crossroads) by Paul Ortiz

Symposium celebrates 45 years of African history
Top scholars in the field of African history will help celebrate 45 years of African history on campus. UW-Madison's African history program is one of this nation's oldest, founded in the 1960s under the leadership of faculty Jan Vansina and Philip Curtin.