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INTERVIEW
Posted to the web April 19, 2002
Charles Cobb Jr.
Washington, DC
In a television documentary scheduled for airing on the Discovery Channel this Sunday, humankind is said to share a common genetic link that can be traced to one woman who lived in Africa more than 150,000 years ago. Using a unique part of human DNA called mitochondrial DNA” which is passed from mother to daughter, “The Real Eve”, narrated by actor Danny Glover, tracks the movement of humanity from this common ancestor across geography and millennia. AllAfrica’s Charles Cobb Jr. spoke with the film’s producer, Paul Ashton. Excerpts: read more
Fear of Blackness: Descriptions and Ethnogenesis of the original Afro-Arabian tribes of “Moorish” Spain
PART I
“…a fair-skinned Arab is something inconceivable… “ Ibn Abd Rabbu of Cordoba born 9thc. in El Iqd el Farid (The Precious Necklace), quoting Shuraik el-Qadi a 7th century Arab of the clan of Nakha’l of the Maddhij in the Yemen.read more
Flambouyant Nigerian pastor and apparently Ukraine’s most prominent Pentecostal leader, Sunday Adelaja, has been indicted on fraud charges. Pastor Adelaja is the senior pastor of the largest church in the Ukraine, “The Embassy of the Blessed Kingdom of God for All Nations, Kiev.” read more
For more than three centuries after European settlers arrived in South Africa in 1652, so-white rulers sought to relegate Africans to exist only as objects of economic exploitation and systematically undermined any system of education and schooling extant in the African communities.read more
King Darius of Persia - Black King with Wooly HairThe Black Iraqis, the Black Iranians – Afro-Arabian Mesopotamia
By
Jide Uwechia
For thousands of years they have lived and prospered in Basra as rulers, administrators, musicians, and scholars. They are the black Arabs of Basra.read more
Nigerian scientist, Dr. Louis Obyo Finds That Verona Amygdalina (Bitter Leaf) Cures Diabetes
A Nigerian scientist, Dr. Louis Obyo Obyo Nelson, has finally found a cure for the dreaded diabetes disease which afflicts over 123 million sufferers all over the world.read more
Attorney general signals shift in marijuana policy
Attorney General Eric Holder signalled a change on medical marijuana policy Wednesday, saying federal agents will target marijuana distributors only when they violate both federal and state law. That would be a departure from the policy of the Bush administration, which targeted medical marijuana dispensaries in California even if they complied with that state’s law.read more
The legendarily beautiful Egyptian queen Cleopatra was part African, says a documentary team who believe they have found the tomb of her sister. read more
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