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The Young Foundation is inviting people to share their first political memory. The First Political Memory Project aims to:
reconnect people’s everyday lives with politics through collecting and sharing stories of when people first became aware of the bigger world around them.
I grew up in a very political household so trying to identify my first [...]

We need to be consistent in our condemnation of the BNP and its supporters. If the party is racist then so are its followers and maybe its time to revoke its political party status

In celebration of International BlogDay2006, here are five blogs that are different from my own culture, point of view and attitude.

In an article entitled Honour Amongst Thieves Guardian columnist Philip Hensher offers an interesting argument in favour of Western nations keeping hold of historical artifacts and national treasures that rightfully belong to African nations. Using Sudan as an example he states that;
In many instances, national treasures are better off outside their countries of origin [...]

Jipox -(verb) Kiswahili Slang: to boldly assert one’s belonging/membership to a group of people or an event despite irrefutable evidence to the contrary.
Jipoxer -(noun) Kiswahili Slang: one who jipoxes.
Last year, my blog twin wrote a fantastic response to Angelina Jolie’s adoption of an Ethiopian baby. In the same blog piece she mentioned that Oprah [...]