TAN – The Afro News

Women of Zimbabwe Arise!

Mobina Jaffer The Afro News Ottawa ,On June 6th I had the privilege of meeting Jenni Williams who is a strong and courageous woman who has selflessly devoted her life to fighting for the rights of her brothers and sisters in Zimbabwe. During our meeting Jenni spoke to me about her successes as the executive director of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA). Read the full story

Food Security

African people in North America, Africa, and the Caribbean and across the entire African Diaspora must face the challenge with the issue of Human Security. Human Security is a concept of security that deals with the everyday challenges that humans face that do not necessarily deal with military and police issues. Read the full story

Black history In CANADA

Anthony Reznek is a publisher at Edmond Montgomery Publications in Toronto. In collaboration with several well-known authors he has published ‘Black History: Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas,” a four colour, 376-page hardcover book. The textbook will be used to give students a panoramic view of Black Canadian experiences along with an overview of Black History from early civilizations to the 21st century – from Africa to the Diaspora in the Caribbean and the Americas. The authors (Sadlier, Birkett, Grant, James, Van Beinum) “were interested in creating a resource with information that had not been available to them in a textbook when they were in high school” Reznek told School Libraries in Canada, the online journal of the Canadian Association for School Libraries. “They wanted to educate students in particular, and the broader community, in general, about Black History and its deep connections to the histories of Africa and the countries of this hemisphere”, he added.

The book has several features including: Description and brief analysis of specific landmark accomplishments in the visual arts, literature, music and architecture, sketches of Black leaders in politics, economics, philosophy, technology, social reform and the arts and a Teacher’s Resource that includes assessment and evaluations tools and strategies.

Textbook of African/Canadian

Written by Dr. Charles Quist-Adade

In this four-part article, Dr. Charles Quist-Adade traces the historic links between Continental Africans and their cousins in the Diaspora and argues that distance-physical and temporal (time) should unite rather than divide peoples of African descent notwithstanding their cultural differences. He asserts that no man or woman of African descent will be free or will be able to walk chest up anywhere in the world unless African is politically and economically successful.

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