Letters

U.S. President Barack Obama has been preaching to Africans that the reasons behind the continent's underdevelopment are largely self-induced. The United States' President has conveniently forgotten that one of the reasons that he gave for not participating in the Durban II anti-racism conference was that Africans were going to raise the issue of reparations for enslavement, colonialism and neo-colonialism.

Obama and other commentators are unreservedly pushing for the implementation of liberal capitalist democracy in Africa. They view this type of political system as an exemplary model for popular participation in national governance. This proposition is problematic on a number of levels.

Dear Editor:

Dear Editor:

Many thanks to Share for reminding us that learning is a community affair.

I and many sistahs and bruthas are grateful that you provided us such vital background information on the appointment of Thando Hyman-Annan as principal of Toronto's planned Afrikan-centred school.

Thando is indeed the brilliant daughter our village raised up to defeat adversity, and she does the ancestors proud.

  Like Share, we now want the world to know that we will continue the tradition of Afrikan-centred excellence that produced such uncommon competence and commitment in the person of our younger sistah, Thando.

Our mothers thank you, our fathers thank you, our village thanks you!

Dear Mr. Auguste:

I would like to offer my hearty congratulation to you on the occasion of Share Newspaper having achieved this milestone of 31 years of dedicated media service to the Black and Caribbean community in Canada and North America.

Share has always been forthright and supportive of the dreams and aspirations of our community. It places a positive thrust on events and happenings within the Black community on which it continues to report.