Donda West is not a household name in Africa. But in the U.S. especially Chicago, the late mother of top U.S. Hip-Hop Star, Kanye West, was known as an advocate for African causes. Donda, 58, died tragically Nov. 10th in a Los Angeles hospital of complications resulting from plastic surgery, leaving thousands of fans of Kanye and Black activists saddened. She will be buried on Tuesday in her hometown, Oklahoma City. - In 2005, when Kanye West attacked the U.S. President Bush as being insensitive to Blacks in the wake of Katrina Hurricane that hit the predominantly black U.S. city of New Orleans, it was not merely an outburst from an artist. Although Kanye is an articulate observer of Ameri…

China's massive economic drive into Africa and the recent creation of the African military command by the United States may trigger a cold war on the continent. In such an event, Africa may pay a price for its independence because of its leaders' failure to establish a United States of Africa equipped with strong military, economic, political and diplomatic apparatus. It is imperative that Africa has not heeded its own prophet. - When Ghana became the first Black country south of the Sahara to gain freedom from colonial rule on March 6, 1957, its founder, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, set Africa on a course toward continental liberation and unification. Assisted later by the defunct Organizat…