What motivated us? Knowledge. We made the same discovery that led Sir Francis Bacon to make his famous quote in 1597, “Knowledge is power.” We were empowered by what we had learned, and it gave us the confidence to take a risk we would never have taken before.
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Miscellaneous
THE UN-COMFORT ZONE -The Examined Life
on December 24th, 2009
Nova Scotian Senator Donald H .Oliver, Q.C. Receives Award
on October 30th, 2009
The Afro News Toronto , October 24, 2009 – Nova Scotian resident and Conservative Senator, the Honourable Senator Donald H. Oliver, Q.C. was honoured at the Planet Africa Awards gala, for making a profound difference in the lives of people of African heritage. Senator Oliver was awarded in the prestigious Leadership Award category. Dr. Alexander
A Blooming Business- toxicity, poverty and poetry.
on October 22nd, 2009
By The Afro News Reporter Ariadne Sawyer. The film A Blooming Business, recently shown at the Vancouver International film paints a picture of poetic imagery while portraying a hard look at the greed of multinational companies who run the vast flower plantations around Lake Naivasha in Kenya. Workers such as Jane who works 16 hours
Multigenerational trauma meets poverty, victimization and hope in Precious.
on October 22nd, 2009
Movie review by The Afro News Reporter, Ariadne Sawyer, MA“Precious “from the novel Push was originally written by African American, poet and writer Sapphire. Skillfully adapted for screen by Damien Paul and directed by the Academy Award Winner Lee Daniels; it is a remarkable film where multigenerational trauma and poverty weave together a hard core
Keeping your Principles AND Principal when Investing
on October 1st, 2009
Keeping your Principles AND Principal when Investing Being socially responsible in life is different for everyone—for some it means speaking publicly at City Hall to hold elected officials accountable; for others it means going to church every week; and for others it means taking responsibility for their own health so as not to be a
The Perils of Life (Phase II)
on September 6th, 2009
The Afro News Burnaby We have cause to be thankful today, as a life has been saved, that life is Ibrahim Essandoh. The transplant operation has been performed successfully by the Canadian doctors at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. By all accounts, so far, Ibrahim is recovering well and there is great hope that his
Tandja and the Big Man syndrome
on August 30th, 2009
By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong The Afro News International Syndrome has become a buzzword in Africa’s emerging progress world. The most popular being the pull him/her down syndrome, where Africans destroy each other as they attempt to progress in the fashion of crabs pulling each other down as they attempt to get out of a trap. Pull
