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BOOK: Golden Arrowhead—A Memoir – by Andra Thakur

07/29/2020 – 3:35 pm

ANDRA THAKUR BOOK – GOLDEN ARROWHEAD

My book, GOLDEN ARROWHEAD, (A Memoir) has recently been published (Jaguar Press January, 2020. 360 pp. including 30 pages of maps and photos) but has not fully entered circulation due to the global pandemic.

The book is set in 24 Chapters: 9 in Guyana; 8 in Western Canada–Edmonton and Nanaimo– and 2 each in India, Thailand and West Africa–Ghana and Nigeria.

The selling price for the book is US$20. plus shipping and handling. For further information kindly contact;>>LynParboo@cs.com<< or phone 407-287-4700

BACK COVER – COMMENTS Continue reading →

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Top 10 Countries with the highest Proven Crude Oil Reserves

08/29/2015 – 6:58 am

Top 10 Countries with the highest Proven Crude Oil Reserves

Venezuela – Crude Oil

Business Insider- eholodny@businessinsider.com (Elena Holodny)2015-08-13

The world powers and Iran recently struck a deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program for at least 10 years in exchange for billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions. One of the most talked-about side effects of the deal is the reentry of Iranian crude on the global markets.

Interestingly, although Iran has a huge amount of oil, the Islamic republic doesn’t even make it into the top three when it comes to proven crude oil reserves.

Using the data provided by Barclays commodities analyst Michael Cohen, we put together a list of the 10 countries sitting on the greatest amounts of crude oil. Check the list here:- Continue reading →

By guyaneseonline | Posted in Business, Geography, International News, Oil Exploration, Politics | Also tagged Canada, Iran, Iraq, Islamic republic, Kuwait, Libya, Proven Crude Oil Reserves, Russia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Venezuela | Comments (16)

Nigeria’s precedent for peaceful democracy

04/03/2015 – 1:11 am

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan (L) and his election opponent Muhammadu Buhari pose after signing a peace accord in Abuja just days before the March 28 election.

One key to Nigeria’s historic presidential election, in which an incumbent lost, was a peace committee that worked to mediate disputes and suppress violence. It set a model for the rest of Africa.

By the Christian Science Monitor’s Editorial Board April 1, 2015

A healthy democracy relies heavily on private watchdogs – either civic groups or journalists – to keep a check on voter fraud, campaign lies, or the undue influence of money. In the run-up to a March 28-29 election, Nigeria decided to create a new type of democracy protector: the peace committee.

The panel consisted of esteemed clergy, businesspeople, international statesmen, and a former head of state, all of whom worked as activists for peace to end Nigeria’s history of electoral violence. Continue reading →

By guyaneseonline | Posted in Commentary, International News, Military, Politics, Racial Conflict | Also tagged Africa - politics and democracy, electoral violence, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan, peaceful democracy, the peace committee | Comments (4)

Five Things That Will Kill More Americans Than Ebola – commentary

11/01/2014 – 5:54 pm

Five Things That Will Kill More Americans Than Ebola

Media is blowing Ebola out of proportion. First world countries like the U.S. can handle the virus. More immediate concerns are lack of gun control, smoking, Obamacare, coal, and obesity.

Published: October 30, 2014 | Authors: Juan Cole | Truthdig | Op-Ed. This post originally ran on Juan Cole’s Web page. Source page here

The odd hysteria about ebola is being driven more by a media frenzy than the actual public health risks. Ebola is not the sort of disease that is likely to turn into a pandemic, becoming really wide spread. It is too hard to contract (it doesn’t spread by infected persons just breathing on others) and kills too many of its victims (diseases don’t survive well if neither do their hosts). Moreover, countries that are relatively well-governed, with good public health systems are not at high risk from this sort of disease.

Even Senegal and Nigeria in West Africa have dealt with small outbreaks professionally and right now have no ebola cases, in contrast to countries ravaged by years of civil war like Sierra Leone and Liberia (wars, by the way, in which former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi played a major and cynical role). Continue reading →

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As Caliphates Compete, Radical Islam Will Eventually Weaken – analysis

09/10/2014 – 6:28 pm

As Caliphates Compete, Radical Islam Will Eventually Weaken

Analysis – September 7, 2014 | 0804 Print Text Size

As Caliphates Compete, Radical Islam Will Weaken Eventually

A still from a video released by Nigerian militant group Boko Haram in February shows leader Abubakar Shekau with armed militants. Boko Haram

Summary

The rise of the Islamic State will inspire other jihadist groups to claim their own caliphates and emirates. In the long run, the extremism of these contrived dominions and the competition among them will undermine the jihadist movement. However, before that happens, the world will witness much upheaval.

Analysis

In a 52-minute video that surfaced in late August, Abubakar Shekau, the head of Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram, spoke of an Islamic State in northeastern Nigeria. The statement came two months after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the chief of the transnational jihadist movement in Syria and Iraq, declared the re-establishment of the caliphate, renaming the group the Islamic State. Continue reading →

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To make it big in Africa, a business must succeed in Nigeria, the continent’s largest market.

08/23/2014 – 9:38 am

Africa’s testing ground

To make it big in Africa, a business must succeed in Nigeria, the continent’s largest market. No one said it would be easy

Aug 23rd 2014 | LAGOS |The Economist

IN 2001 MTN, a fledgling telecoms company from South Africa, paid $285m for one of four mobile licences sold at auction by the government of Nigeria. Observers thought its board was bonkers. Nigeria had spent most of the previous four decades under military rule. The country was rich in oil reserves but otherwise desperately poor. Its infrastructure was crumbling. The state phone company had taken a century to amass a few hundred thousand customers from a population of 120m. The business climate was scarcely stable. Continue reading →

By guyaneseonline | Posted in Business, Commentary, International News | Also tagged Africa, Guyanese Online, Middel East | Comments (0)

Twenty-First-Century Energy Wars – commentary

07/10/2014 – 4:41 am

Twenty-First-Century Energy Wars

By Michael Klare

Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, South Sudan, Ukraine, the East and South China Seas: wherever you look, the world is aflame with new or intensifying conflicts.

At first glance, these upheavals appear to be independent events, driven by their own unique and idiosyncratic circumstances. But look more closely and they share several key characteristics — notably, a witch’s brew of ethnic, religious, and national antagonisms that have been stirred to the boiling point by a fixation on energy.

In each of these conflicts, the fighting is driven in large part by the eruption of long-standing historic antagonisms among neighboring (often intermingled) tribes, sects, and peoples. In Iraq and Syria, it is a clash among Sunnis, Shiites, Kurds, Turkmen, and others; in Nigeria, among Muslims, Christians, and assorted tribal groupings; in South Sudan, between the Dinka and Nuer; in Ukraine, between Ukrainian loyalists and Russian-speakers aligned with Moscow; in the East and South China Sea, among the Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Filipinos, and others. Continue reading →

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Africa: Beware of China’s $$$ – NYT commentary

05/23/2014 – 2:58 pm

Beware of China’s $$$ – NYT commentary

MAY 23, 2014 | BY KNEWS | By Howard W. French

Africa: political map

“The problem (though not limited to China) is relying on shady arrangements made at the very top of the political system, often in the president’s office itself. Contracts are greased with monetary bribes and other enticements like expense-paid shopping trips to China and scholarships there for elite children.”

(Taken from the New York Times)

NAIROBI, Kenya — For nearly a decade, as China made a historic push for business opportunities and expanded influence in Africa, most of the continent’s leaders were so thrilled at having a deep-pocketed partner willing to make big investments and start huge new projects that they rarely paused to consider whether they were getting a sound deal. Continue reading →

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The danger of a single story – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

01/29/2014 – 12:54 am

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story

Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding. About Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Tribute to Chinua Achebe by Leonard Dabydeen

03/23/2013 – 8:09 pm

Tribute to Chinua Achebe by Leonard Dabydeen

Chinua Achebe

Nigerian Chinua Achebe was an icon in English Literature, particularly in the post colonial era. I read and studied his 1958 novel “Things Fall Apart” some four decades ago for a Teachers’ examination in Guyana. Much of his thoughts and future writings stirred a new awareness and longing for us to get up and use the pen to picture our world inside out. He will be remembered as much as he will be missed by all…

Tribute to Chinua Achebe
(1931-2013) Continue reading →

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