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Intro -- The Engineering of Racism -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Copyright Information © -- Acknowledgement -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Meaning of Racism and the Concept of Racial Engineering -- Meaning of Racism -- The Concept of Racial Engineering -- Chapter 3: Engineered Beams of Racism: Superiority Complex and Religion -- The Pre-Atlantic Slavery Period in Europe -- European Exploration and Trade with Africa Before the Atlantic Slave Trade -- European Exploration and Trade with Other Parts of the World Before the Atlantic Slave Trade -- The New World and the Need for Slaves: Culmination of White Supremacy -- The Self-Adorned Superiority Complex of the Europeans -- The So-Called Religious Basis of White Supremacy -- The Reverend Buckner H. "Aeriel" Payne and God-Sanctioned White Supremacy -- Dr. Bob Jones and Bob Jones College -- Pastor, Dr. Wallie Amos Criswell on Race and Segregation -- Is God Really a White Supremacist and a Racist? -- Chapter 4: The "Scientific" Pillar of White Supremacy and Racism -- The Scientific Method -- Dubious Justification of Scientific Racism -- Black Resistance to Slavery -- Running Away -- Slave Rebellion/Insurrection -- The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 -- Stono Rebellion of 1739 -- New York City Conspiracy of 1741 -- Gabriel's Conspiracy of 1800 -- German Coast Uprising of 1811 -- Denmark Vesey's Conspiracy of 1822 -- Nat Turner Rebellion of 1831 -- Other Acts of Resistance -- Chapter 5: Brutality As Part of the Engineering Design of Racism -- Rounding Up Slaves in Africa -- Brutality during the Middle Passage -- Brutality in the Americas -- Abuse in the Plantations -- Chapter 6: The Government's engineering of Racism and White Supremacy -- Legalization of Slavery -- Massachusetts Slave Laws -- The New England Confederation Law of 1643 -- Connecticut Slave Laws -- Virginia Slave Laws.

In 2007, a South Korean geologist discovered large deposits of diamonds in Cameroon. To Cameroon, this discovery is particularly significant because it has the potential to engineer sustainable development. Cameroon suffers from acute levels of poverty, high unemployment, devastating levels of corruption, and bad governance. The spoils of diamonds could provide an undeniable avenue to engender sustainable development. However, if history is a guide, the examples of Angola, Sierra Leone, and Democratic Republic of Congo offer instructive lessons of destructive effects of diamond exploration in countries that are contemptuous of good governance and are experiencing lawlessness, economic deprivation, social unrest, and political instability. This essay provides a timely reminder to Cameroon on the consequences of mismanaged natural resources. It explores Cameroon's socioeconomic condition, examines the history of diamond exploration and mining in Cameroon, and analyzes the implications for sustainable development.

The authors contend that the pervasiveness of piracy on the African coasts is threatening global security. Within Somalia, it is causing a disruption of food supplies, fostering internal conflict, and increasing the prices of basic commodities. Globally, it is orchestrating a dramatic rise in maritime insurance premiums and maritime insecurity, disrupting international commerce, increasing the possibility of an environmental disaster, and encouraging a nervous, emerging relationship with terrorism. Piracy must be stopped. To achieve this objective, the authors recommend revamping the international law on piracy, maintaining adequate coastal security along the hot spots on the African coasts, using military force, establishing safe maritime lanes, training crews on security measures, stationing armed guards on ships, and most importantly, reestablishing political stability in Somalia.

Social media have been welcomed as important tools that contribute to satisfying the daily information needs of citizens in today's global society. To many, they serve as an open and alternative source of information especially where the conventional media fail to play their role of serving the public's interest first. Notwithstanding, there have been serious and legitimate concerns about the spread of fake news over social media especially during the 2016 US presidential elections (Allcott & Gentzkow, 2017). This coincided with the Cameroon Anglophone Crisis (CAC) in which the Cameroon government blamed social media users for spreading false information about the crisis to the extent that government shut down the Internet in the two affected Anglophone regions of the country for 93 days in 2017. This article therefore, examines the content of information (graphics, audios, videos, texts) posted on two widely used social media platforms (WhatsApp and Facebook) during the Anglophone Crisis, in order to understand how falsehood is propagated especially during crisis situations. A qualitative approach to analyse data of falsehood during the crisis was used and three major ways were identified through which falsehood was propagated. Principally, social media activists used computer software to distort pictures and superimpose content that depict the messages they wanted to pass across. They also spread rumours using texts, audio clips and distorted videos. The conclusion is that social media have been awash with falsehood in the Cameroon Anglophone Crisis. The major recommendation therefore, is that users of social media should make efforts to verify the authenticity of information obtained from such media before consuming and disseminating to others. The December 2014 Law on Terrorism in Cameroon treats such offences seriously and defaulters are severely punished with heavy jail sentences and fines.