Kwezi - Africa's Cartoon Superhero

Most comic book superheroes are Europeans or white Americans but one artist in South Africa has been trying to change that.
"Kwezi" (star in Xhosa and Zulu) is the brainchild of Loyiso Mkize, who describes it as a coming-of-age story about finding one's heritage.
He's been speaking to the BBC about his work in visual art and why he feels Africa needs to have its own superheroes.

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Kagame didn't end Genocide; He started it.

Please Stop Saying

“Paul Kagame ended a genocide in which mostly Tutsis (and a few moderate Hutus) were killed”!

1. He did not come riding in to stop killing in 1994.
   
2. His gang invaded Rwanda in 1990 (yes, 1990, 4 years before) to begin the genocide.
   
3. He orchestrated and accomplished much of the killing (including killing of Tutsis by Hutus and by his own men)
   
4. The evidence suggests more Hutus than Tutsis were killed.
   
5. And that was from 1990 until the end of 1994;he continued beyond this, in Rwanda and in Democratic Republic of Congo.

Did the UN and others "fail" to act? Kagame threatened to kill UN officials or others who stood in his way to conquest of Kigali, his long-planned base for stealing Congo's resources.

GOOGLE "Ann Garrison" or "Taylor report"+Philpot or "Gersony report" or Davenport+Stam or "Mapping exercise"+UN or "Peter Erlinder" or "Keith Harmon Snow" etc.

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Frank LeFever

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Rwanda: A vulcano to erupt any moment

“Let’s continue with rebuilding Rwanda together”, states president Kagame during the Umaganda, a national public service every last Saturday of the month. All Rwandans are obliged to help build and repair roads, houses and schools. Even the president himself is participating.

In front of dozens of cameras he throws cement into the groundwork of a new building, which has to become a community center for genocide survivors. Later, when he gives a speech from a small stage, built the same day, a crowd of people obviously convened for the occasion singing just too exuberantly how the Umuganda develops and unites their country.

Critics argue, however, that as long as history can’t be discussed openly and honestly, Rwandans will never fully recover from trauma of the genocide, they won’t be able to fully reconcile with each other and the hilly country will remain a volcano to erupt any moment.

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Barack Obama's Top 10 Rules For Success

He's the 44th and current President of the United States, and the first African American to hold the office.

He's a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review.

He defeated Republican nominee John McCain in the general election, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009.

He's Barack Obama and here are his Top 10 Rules for Success.


Sources:
https://youtu.be/L88H2HWEXrw
https://youtu.be/t6NS9unm-OQ
https://youtu.be/Qbel5MhtDq4
https://youtu.be/qMlLjFPCO4M
https://youtu.be/qVQKTPHBdVg
https://youtu.be/oRPbfrkfCdc
https://youtu.be/AjLLhWHH4Ww

1. Move the ball forward
He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree.

2. Have hope
He worked as a civil rights attorney and taught constitutional law at University of Chicago Law School between 1992 and 2004.

3. Don't get complacent
He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.

4. Stay Focused
He received national attention during his campaign to represent Illinois in the United States Senate with his victory in the March Democratic Party primary

5. You can't do it alone
After a close primary campaign against Hillary Clinton in 2008, he won sufficient delegates in the Democratic Party primaries to receive the presidential nomination.

6. Commit to something bigger
He then defeated Republican nominee John McCain in the general election, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009.

7. Stop making excuses
Nine months after his inauguration, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

8. Don't take yourself too seriously
He was reelected president in November 2012, defeating Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

9. Stick to your plan
He normalized U.S. relations with Cuba.

10. Follow your passion
He spearheaded discussions that led to the 2015 Paris Agreement on global climate change

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