Michael O. Allen

Tag: Africa

  • Pieces of Me

    This site is, of course, the archive of mostly my newspaper journalism. I have written other places, too. I don’t know if it is wanderlust, nostalgia, whatever, I found myself looking around the web for some of my past writings and came across these pieces scattered around the Internet. Some of these pieces, I posted…

  • VISIT TO SOWETO_INSIDE THE NECKLACE Pointless deaths but real victims

    By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers, Wednesday | April 6, 1994 SOWETO—He was an unidentified man, a weekly newspaper reported, and lucky for him that the police and paramedics came along when they did. He was walking past the Dube Hostel, a decrepit barracks-like encampment where the so-called Zulu royalists…

  • NATION HEADS TO POLLS: South Africans Turn Out in Force in 1st All-Race Vote

    By MICHAEL O. ALLEN and GENE MUSTAIN, Daily News Staff Writers | Thursday, April 28, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—Their freedom finally at hand, millions upon jubilant millions of blacks voted for the first time yesterday and began sending the last colonial outpost on the Africa continent into the history books. On an epic day of stirring images…

  • That tool, Tavis Smiley

    Okay. I  went to the 92nd Street Y two Saturday evenings ago to see Tavis Smiley interview Cornel West. I don’t care for Smiley, but I went because I was entertaining a friend’s guest from London (a sister) who wanted to go — real bad. About halfway through the evening, I noticed she was leaning…

  • Redeem yourself *

    I tried to restrain myself from commenting on Pope Benedict’s visit to the United States. I expected the media would go overboard in its coverage. But, even with his departure, I have to get some things off my chest. I believe religion has its place and uses, the most relevant of which I think is…

  • Millions in Hunger

    Food Crisis Is Depicted As ‘Silent Tsunami’ Sharp Price Hikes Leave Many Millions in Hunger By Kevin Sullivan Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, April 23, 2008; A01 LONDON, April 22 — More than 100 million people are being driven deeper into poverty by a “silent tsunami” of sharply rising food prices, which have sparked riots…

  • ISLAM ON THE RISE; Converts, a Boom in Births Help Swell Rank of Muslims

    Sunday, November 09, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN NADIA BARNES RECITED the shahada, or central principle of Islam. “La ilaha illa Allah, sa Muhammadun rasulu Allah,” Barnes said after Imam Muhammed Salem Agwa: “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammed is the messenger of Allah.” The 23-year-old fashion designer and finance student descended from…

  • TAKE PRIDE, PROFESSOR URGES BLACKS

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Sunday, October 20, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A03 After professor Rosalind Jeffries concluded a speech urging blacks to take pride in their heritage, a waiter went over and thanked her for inspiring him and exhorted her to press on with…