AP sources: Daimler to pay $185M settlement – Yahoo! News

Dennis Brutus: Activist whose efforts helped bring about the end of apartheid – Obituaries, News – The Independent

Poet who battled apartheid dies at 85 – Africa, World – The Independent

OBITUARY: Rajat Neogy – People, News – The Independent

Another good obit of Dennis. This time, it’s the London Times Dennis Brutus: South African poet and anti-apartheid campaigner | Times Online Obituary

This is a very good and detailed Obituary of Dennis Brutus — remarkable because The Daily Telegraph is not normally the place to find sympathy for radical African intellectuals. The link may take some time to load, but keep clicking: it’s worth the wait! Dennis Brutus – Telegraph

50th anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre | World news | guardian.co.uk

By CAMERON DUODU The statement by the Libyan leader, Col Muammar Gaddafi, thatNigeria should be divided into two nations to avoid further bloodshed between Muslims and Christians, has caused immense anger in Nigeria.For in order to stay as one country, Nigeria fought a blood-soaked civil war between 1967 and 1970 — the Biafran War — …

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By CAMERON DUODU The Acting President of Nigeria, Mr Goodluck Jonathan, must act fast to replace the Ministers he has sacked with men of proven ability and visibility, who can bring confidence back quickly into the body-politic. If he merely fills the new Exectuive Council with the usual time-servers, sycophants and opportunists, the Nigerian people …

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Here is a short video showing some of the exhibits and discussing the background to Ife artefacts http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturevideo/cultureminute/7378407/Kingdom-of-Ife-Culture-Minute.html