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Namibian president orders foreign programs off television, saying they corrupt youth WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) _ Namibian President Sam Nujoma has ordered the state broadcaster to immediately stop playing all foreign television programs, saying they are corrupting the nation’s youth, a local newspaper reported Tuesday. Nujoma, who has claimed foreigners were spreading homosexuality in his southern African country, told officials at the Namibian Broadcasting Corp. on Monday afternoon to drop Western programs and instead broadcast locally made shows that portray Namibia in a positive light, The Namibian newspaper reported. The television station immediately began revising its schedule and confused staff members started pulling old tapes off the shelves almost at random to fill airtime, The Namibian reported. The U.S. soap opera ``The Bold and the Beautiful’’ was dropped and the
science fiction miniseries ``Dune’’ was replaced by a program on the recent
ruling party congress. Africa’s Great Loss By Cyril Ibe I woke up in Chicago one morning recently to surf the worldwide web, but the greeting on my default Africana.com homepage was anything but uplifting for that time of the day. The obituary of Philippe Wamba greeted me, giving me an immediate sense of loss for Africa. I recognized Philippe Wamba’s as a byline under which I had read some
of the most insightful stories on Africana.com, a site that gets several
hits from me each day. From reading the obituary, I discovered the Philippe
Wamba I didn’t know. The Harvard-educated writer had penned, in what his
colleagues and friends considered quintessential Philippe Wamba-fashion,
a deeply perceptive memoir about growing up straddling both the African
and African-American cultures of his father and mother. Before the author’s
death recently, I had not been aware of the book Kinship, which
I’ve since picked up and started reading. I strongly recommend it. |
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