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"FEAR NOT DEATH BUT DEFEAT". These are the words that make up the mantra of Zambia Army Special Forces and embody both the warrior spirit and the fighting ethos of Zambia's elite fighting force only known by many as, 'Commandos'. As common men with an uncommon desire to 'fight and win', Special Forces have been called upon...

IN THE NORTHEAST end of the Aix Island, at its highest point (13 m altitude), lies Fort Liédot, a semi-buried fortification constructed between 1811 and 1835 by order of the Emperor of France, Napoleon I. Taking nearly 24 years to construct, Napoleon I decided to build the Fort to have an overview of the road stead of Aix...

SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL, it has been the unabated desire of African leaders operating within a variety of exigencies in their own countries to find an ideology that can stress the shared identity of African peoples while seeking to mobilize and unify the entire continent. Indeed, in the ferment of nationalist struggles of the 1950's, African leaders...