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		<title>New Year&#8230; New Focus</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year and All Many Blessings for 2009! I am not one to make new year resolutions, but at least twice a year I take time to assess where I&#8217;m at in my life spiritually, emotionally, intellectually and physically, then make whatever adjustments I feel I need to make in my ongoing progression as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asabagna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=523060&amp;post=152&amp;subd=asabagna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brotherpeacemaker dropped an interesting post on President-elect Obama&#8217;s overtures to his former political foes entitled: &#8220;Forgiveness In The New Age Of Political Bipartisanship&#8221;. His thought-provoking article inspired this comment from me: Interesting post. There is no surprise on my part on the current policy positions and appointments of President-elect Obama. “There is none so blind as he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asabagna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=523060&amp;post=148&amp;subd=asabagna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Soldier&#8217;s Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the day, in my former life I was a working actor. Looking back at my life to that time so long ago, it does seem like it was a former life. I am certainly a much different person than back then. Anywayzzz&#8230; when I was making my living as an actor in Toronto [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asabagna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=523060&amp;post=140&amp;subd=asabagna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PBS Frontline: On Our Watch</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched another heart-wrenching documentary on the genocide in Darfur. Titled &#8220;On Our Watch&#8221;, it was featured on PBS Frontline. It&#8217;s unbelievable that this atrocity is still occurring in 2008 and the leaders of our world community cannot muster the &#8220;will&#8221; to impress upon Sudan that it must stop this genocide. The documentary touched on some of the reasons why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asabagna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=523060&amp;post=139&amp;subd=asabagna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;New Media&#8221; and the potential of the AfroSphere</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched a fascinating discussion on Sunday afternoon on a program on BBC World called &#8220;The World Debate&#8221;. The panel, which was made up of Carl Bernstein, the award winning journalist who helped uncover the Watergate scandal; Sergey Brin, one of the co-founders of the internet giant Google; Dan Gilbert, a Harvard Psychologist; Queen Noor of Jordan and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asabagna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=523060&amp;post=138&amp;subd=asabagna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Modern Day Slavery in West Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  In 1998 when I was planning my pilgrimage to West Africa, I was warned against visiting Mauritania. It was explained to me that slavery against the &#8220;Black&#8221; African population was still practised there by the &#8220;White&#8221; Arabs and I could therefore put my self at risk. The fear was not so much my abduction and enslavement, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asabagna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=523060&amp;post=137&amp;subd=asabagna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The influence of religion vs science on public opinion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ VS  Recently I have been contemplating if the church has any real significant and positive influence on the world today, especially in the beliefs and actions of western society in particular. There was a time when Christian ideology, through the church was very influential (good and bad) in shaping political, social, cultural and even personal beliefs and viewpoints. I would argued [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asabagna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=523060&amp;post=136&amp;subd=asabagna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Poverty is the worst form of violence.&#8221; Mahatma Gandhi</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t ask: &#8220;Why does God allow this to happen?&#8221; Pray: &#8220;God&#8230; give me the wisdom and strength to do what I must to stop this from happening?&#8221;  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asabagna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=523060&amp;post=134&amp;subd=asabagna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Gentleman&#8217;s Agreement to Do The Right Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  I recently watched 2 classic movie&#8217;s&#8230; one that I had never seen before, A Gentleman&#8217;s Agreement and one of my all time favourites, Do The Right Thing. Both deal with the subject of racism, but in certainly different ways. They were both ground breaking and hard hitting films which deals with issues surrounding the practice and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asabagna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=523060&amp;post=133&amp;subd=asabagna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Black History Month Carnival: My Jewels from Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Here are some of the jewels from Africa that has enriched my life: My favourite online African magazine, The African Executive. Here are 2 of this month&#8217;s articles that may be of interest:    Tribalism in Africa: A Western Creation?  Is Democracy Working in Africa?  Blogs: Africa Beat: political and economic development by an Afro-optimist; Blog Africa: wide [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asabagna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=523060&amp;post=129&amp;subd=asabagna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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