Athletes of African descent once again excelled at the Sydney Olympics. Just imagine what a dream team they would make, and where the Olympics would be, if they all competed under one African Union flag. Dammy Oluwasanmi and Baffour Ankomah review Africa’s performance in Sydney.

The poison designed to produce an African disease
A new book published in London recently tells how the famous poison dispatched by Washington to kill Lumumba in 1960, was in fact ?designed to produce...an African disease?. Even the CIA station chief in Kinshasa at the time was so shocked that he shouted: ?Jesus Christ, isn’t this unusual?? Osei Boateng reports.

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