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In this magical account, Janvier T. Chando brilliantly establishes the threads that made the young Thomas Sankara one of Africa’s iconic leaders in the twentieth century, and the revolutionary changes he brought to Burkina Faso that transformed it into Sub-Saharan Africa’s most self-reliant country. The author leads the reader hand-in-hand to the path of the trail of the young Sankara’s catapult into the limelight of Burkina Faso’s politics, his travails, his rise to power as the head of state, and his lucid notion of his mission. Sankara comes across as one of those rare African ...

No continent has experienced half the political assassinations, coup d’états, internal and external wars, civil unrest, and economic upheaval s since the second half of the twentieth century that Africa suffered. Yet, hardly any serious pundit would say that the hands of foreign forces that are out to secure their “so-called interests” in the continent or that want to gain new ones, were not in most of these setbacks. That these external forces have roughly been succeeding with the help of Africans with the evil disposition or Africans ignorant of their game plan is true. Opposed to ...

Este cuidadoso relato de Patrice Lumumba encuentra que la rápidaeliminación de la leyenda de los desarrollos geopolíticos que involucran a su país sumió al Congo en una agitación de la que aún no se harecuperado. Janvier T. Chando destaca el profundo trauma del Congo como laposesión privada del rey Leopoldo de Bélgica, más tarde como una colonia belga y luego como el llamado estado independiente destruido por un tira y afloja entre los rivales de la guerra fría. Eso resultó en la dictadura inhumana del pro-occidental Mobutu Sese Seko, en guerras durante las cuales murieron ...

This thoughtful account of Patrice Lumumba provides an insight into why the swift elimination of the legend from the geopolitical developments involving his country plunged Congo into turmoil that it is yet to recover from. Janvier T. Chando highlights Congo's deep trauma as the private possession of King Leopold of Belgium, later as a Belgian colony, and afterward, as a so-called independent state that got disarrayed by a tug-of-war between the cold war rivals. That resulted in the inhuman dictatorship of pro-Western Mobutu Sese Seko, in wars during which millions of Congolese died, in the...

Historians look at the period from the birth of Jesus Christ known as the Common Era (C.E) or “In the Year of Our Lord” (Anno Domini — A.D) to the Muslim conquest and consolidation of the Levant as the most tumultuous for the Hebrew peoples (Jews and Samaritans) of the Holy Land during the last two millennium until their plight was rivalled by the pogroms and Holocaust of the last century. How did the introduction of multiple monotheistic religions into the quagmire that was the multi-ethnic southern Levant shatter the idyllic illusions that the Roman Empire and later the Byzantine ...

En este relato innovador, el autor lleva al lector por el pasillo de los acontecimientos y la historia innovadores hasta la realidad de que hoy es Ucrania, el conflicto de Ucrania, la Europa posterior a la Guerra Fría y el controvertido mundo unipolar liderado por Estados Unidos. La complejidad de Ucrania, su historia, su política y la guerra multifacética que el dividido pueblo ucraniano no anticipó hace dos décadas se vuelve fácil de entender, sentando las bases para una solución a lo que muchos expertos piensan que es un conflicto intratable. El autor lo logró con una perspicacia...

In questo breve racconto, l'autore rivela i fili che tessono la controversa eredità del leader militare Egiziano e del capo di stato Anwar Al-Sadat, nelle sue motivazioni che lo hanno portato alla guerra contro Israele e che lo ha visto poco dopo diventare un capo iconico per la pace in Medio Oriente, spingendo il suo paese su un percorso che non solo ha iniziato la trasformazione dell'Egitto in uno stato moderno, ma che ha egualmente alienato l'Egitto dal resto del mondo Arabo.La natura inequivocabile del racconto di Janvier T. Chando getta una luce unica sull'eredità di uno dei leader ...

The independence fervor that gripped African colonies in the 1940s and 1950s was supposed to give birth to a "New Africa" that was expected to play a major role in advancing world civilization. What happened to make Africa fail so abysmally? By the end of the 1980s, a culture of political monolithism, dictatorship, corruption, coup d’état, mismanagement, underdevelopment and violence was dominating the political leadership of most African countries, fuelled by leaders with the evil disposition and their foreign puppeteers keeping them in power. The era of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Glasnost ...

This account of a man who ultimately distinguished himself from the rest of the elites of his country as someone who would not accept the occupation of Nicaragua and play the role of a lap dog or puppet, explains in a very simple manner the nuances in the socio-political evolution of the Central American country that greatly influenced other struggles in Latin America. In Augusto C. Sandino, we see the development of a legend who rose from humble beginnings and whose sense of justice guided him in his epic journey of resistance to the oppressive forces in his country. Even though his ...

Dans COUPS DE FEU ET LAMENTATIONS, Janvier T. Chando offre aux lecteurs des récits succincts de la vie, des idéaux et des décès prématurés des personnalités politiques imposantes dont les assassinats ont choqué la société américaine, déclenché des transformations politiques nationales et fondamentalement modifié la politique étrangère américaine, de sorte que les États-Unis de l'Amérique a perdu son innocence pour toujours.Sur un siècle, la mort par balle de quatre présidents des États-Unis — Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, James A. Garfield et John F. Kennedy —...

SYNOPSIS DE « ICÔNES ET MÉCHANTS » Les pays, les continents et le monde en général connaissent des secousses qui les éloignent de leurs voies évolutives, sinon réformatrices, entraînant des changements sismiques qui les transforment fondamentalement. Les assassinats sont l'un des puissants catalyseurs de ces changements, car ils conduisent à des guerres, des changements politiques et même des transformations économiques. Vous trouverez ci-dessous un aperçu des assassinats politiques de grande envergure qui hantent encore le monde aujourd'hui : François-Ferdinand : Gavrilo ...

Paul Biya, the octogenarian second president of Cameroon has been power for forty-six years (ten years as Prime Minister, which is the second highest office of the land, and thirty-six years as the President ---the highest office of the land), making him Africa's and the world's longest-serving head of state who is a non-royal. He is the caretaker of a six-decade-old system put in place by France before it allowed Cameroon to become a member of the United Nations Organization on January 01, 1960 by granting it its so-called independence, a system made up of a Cameroonian political ...

Cette première partie du récit des hégémons qui ont façonné le monde occidental est une histoire millénaire impliquant la Rome antique et la nature de son monde qui impliquait les empires contre lesquels elle s'est battue, les terres et les peuples qu'elle a conquis, les invasions « barbares » qu'elle a vaincues et n'a pas réussi à arrêter, et l'influence qu'elle a exercée en Europe. L'Afrique et le Moyen-Orient, ce qui en fait la cible de puissants non-Romains déterminés à le contrôler tout en chérissant sa civilisation, les attributs positifs qui constituent le noyau du ...

Dans ce récit magique, Janvier Tchouteu établit avec brio les fils qui ont fait du jeune Thomas Sankara l'un des leaders emblématiques de l'Afrique au XXe siècle, et les changements révolutionnaires qu'il a apportés au Burkina Faso pour le transformer en pays le plus autosuffisant en Afrique subsaharienne. L'auteur conduit le lecteur main dans la main sur la trajectoire de la catapulte du jeune Sankara dans les coulisses de la politique burkinabè, de ses exploits, de son ascension au pouvoir en tant que chef de l'Etat et de sa notion lucide de sa mission. Sankara apparaît comme l'un...

This account of Muammar Gaddafi takes us to his rise to power, to the moments when he was in the spotlight, and then to his travails and his swift elimination from the geopolitical developments in Libya in a procession that plunged the country into a turmoil that it is yet to recover from. With insight, lucidity, impartiality, breadth, and diligence, Janvier T, Chando manages to delineate the intricate threads that weaved the controversial character of Muammar Gaddafi. He not only finds the truth from the disparate accounts about the Libyan strongman, he shed light on him in a unique manner...

El nombre Gandhi destaca sobre todos los demás en el panorama político de la India por muy buenas razones. El “alma” de la India moderna –Mahatma Gandhi– llevaba ese apellido; La primera y única primera ministra o jefa de Estado de la India, Indira Gandhi, se casó con ese nombre; y Rajiv Gandhi entró a regañadientes en la política y se convirtió en Primer Ministro de la India como un Gandhi. Dejaron legados positivos, pero fueron asesinados por extremistas con agendas exclusivas y retorcidas. Y resultó que sus muertes contribuyeron al avance de la humanidad. ¿Qué tenían ...

HEGEMON IN THE MAKING is the first part of the account of the hegemons that shaped the Western World, a thousand-year story per se about ancient Rome and the nature of its world. This involves the empires it fought against, the lands and people it conquered, the “Barbarian” invasions it defeated and failed to stop, and the influence it exerted in Europe, Africa, and East Asia (The Middle East), making it the target of other powerful forces determined to bring it down while cherishing its civilization, the positive attributes that constitute the bedrock of Western civilization today ...

En una Europa dominada por imperios en los primeros años del siglo XX, el nacionalismo étnico está desafiando el statu quo, amenazando con lanzar al continente a una confusión insondable. Para protegerse de esta guerra inminente, los diferentes líderes Europeos se embarcan en el fortalecimiento de las alianzas que habían formado. El más vulnerable a este fenómeno es el Imperio Austro-Húngaro multiétnico, que está situado en el corazón de Europa y cuyos ciudadanos proceden de los tres principales grupos lingüísticos de Europa. Pero, curiosamente, su emperador Francisco José es...

In pursuit of revenge, former French commando Rene Roccard embarks on a cause to assassinate underground leader Ruben Um that takes him from New York to Europe and Africa. Relentless on his heels is veteran American journalist Clement Coulther as they join a motley bunch in a journey of love and betrayal, fear and hope, damnation and salvation, war and death, redemption, and peace. Rene leads the bloody campaign by the Franco-Cameroonian army against the Ruben-inspired rebellion, a dirty war steals the innocence of bright-eyed Gavin by exposing the child to a world of power, glory, money, ...

In this succinct account, the author reveals the threads that weave the controversial legacy of the Egyptian military leader and head of state Anwar Al-Sadat, prying into his motivations that led him to war against Israel and that saw him shortly afterwards become an iconic leader for peace in the Middle East by stirring his country onto a path that not only began the transformation of Egypt into a modern state, but that equally alienated Egypt from the rest of the Arab world. The unequivocal nature of Janvier T. Chando’s account sheds a unique light into the legacy of one of Africa’s ...