Fahamu (Oxford)
Website: http://www.pambazuka.org/en/
June 06
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Africa: China-Africa Relations - Looking Beyond the Critics [opinion]
Africa is lacking a clear and unified policy in terms of how it relates to China. In developing further social, economic and political ties with China, African leaders must develop... Read more »
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Nigeria: Nigeria - Waiting for the Undertaker [opinion]
Election year 2015 is around the corner. But the year may herald the coming of an undertaker if one of dewy-eyed and colourless governors of the north captures the presidency to... Read more »
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Africa: Take Action On Officer Who Assaulted Journalist [opinion]
The Media Institute of Southern Africa's (MISA) Malawi Chapter is calling upon the National Assembly and the Police to act on Parliamentary Chief Security Officer, Youngson... Read more »
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Kenya: Kenya Truth Commission Report Doctored By State House [opinion]
The following statement by three members of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) laments the doctoring of the Land Chapter by the Office of the President. The... Read more »
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Zambia: Hate Campaign Against LGBTI Persons Rises in Zambia [opinion]
Since March a combination of factors, including the fall in popularity of Zambia's ruling party PF, has led to a hate campaign against LGBT people in the country Read more »
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Africa: Message On Climate Change to 21st AU Summit [document]
The biggest challenge for the continent's economic take-off is climate change, which threatens to roll back multiple gains attained over the past years Read more »
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Africa: Africom Go Home! [opinion]
On the 50th anniversary of African Liberation Day a group of progressive Pan-Africanists and internationalist activists from around the world declare that the continued military... Read more »
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Africa: The Power of Organizing the Urban Poor [document]
The state has failed the poor in South Africa. Now they must organize themselves and demand an equal place in society, even when this is very difficult. It means that they must... Read more »
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Africa: Adichie's Americadabra [opinion]
Adichie appears to be trying to demonstrate that all novels are full of lies but that readers prefer delightful lies to inconvenient truths. That is why novels sell millions of... Read more »
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Africa: Can't Cross, Won't Return [opinion]
My two countries are both in crisis: one is a failed state which has become almost permanently a terrorist-invested country; and the other is a recession-hit country with... Read more »
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Algeria: Algeria - More of the Same [opinion]
With Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika facing ill health, speculations are arising as to whether he will participate in the elections scheduled for next year and whether real... Read more »
June 04
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Ethiopia: Ethiopia Has Arisen [opinion]
Last weekend thousands of young people poured out into the streets of Addis Ababa demanding democratic reforms. The security forces did not attack them as in the past. Peaceful... Read more »
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Africa: The Frontier That Drones Can Never Cross [opinion]
The increased use of drones raises not only questions related to efficiency and reliability, but also questions about ethics, human rights, legitimacy, sovereignty, and the... Read more »
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Kenya: Fifty Years Later, We Are Independent but Not Free [opinion]
On June 1, Kenya marked 50 years of the declaration of self-rule ahead of the granting of independence on December 12, 1963. But do the country's people enjoy full freedom? Read more »
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Africa: The Sky Gods of Unintended Consequences [opinion]
The excesses of our planet have reached toxic levels, with environmental destruction, carbon dioxide emissions, wealth and income inequality disparities and many other... Read more »
May 30
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Africa: The Continued Struggle for Educational Access by the Afrikan Community [opinion]
The University of Toronto's impositions on the TYP entail a blatant disregard for the struggles of the Afrikan community that founded TYP and all oppressed people who struggle(d)... Read more »
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Africa: In Africa, Walter Rodney Lives! [opinion]
Many progressive people in Africa were genuinely outraged on learning that the late President Burnham of Guyana, who is believed to have killed the great black intellectual Walter... Read more »
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Africa: What Is in a Name? - Ethnology museum of Vienna becomes 'world museum' [opinion]
This latest development is consistent with a trend in the West to justify continued detention in Western museums of artefacts from Africa, Asia and Latin America. The artefacts,... Read more »
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Africa: 'The Post-Colonial State in Africa' [analysis]
Crawford Young succeeds brilliantly and seductively in inciting a yearning for "another history" of governance in Africa in the last 50 years Read more »
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Africa: The Sound of First Class [opinion]
No matter how vibrant the so-called modern world is and how much technological development exists, it is still be over-shadowed by the impoverished and neglected world within it Read more »
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Somalia: The Somali Are Not Born Pirates [opinion]
The greed of the rich to propagate their interest at the cost of fellowmen in other countries is the root cause of piracy in the Indian Ocean. In a sense, piracy is good for... Read more »
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Africa: Made in Bangladesh - Profiting From Poverty [opinion]
The disastrous garment industry in Bangladesh is a perfect example of capitalist expansion to the Global South where labour is cheap and abundant. But such foreign investments, now... Read more »
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Kenya: Tax Justice in Kenya [opinion]
Kenya's poorest are about to be hit with a staggering 16% tax increase on basic goods, while large corporations enjoy huge tax breaks that only benefit the richest Read more »
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Kenya: Being 'Free' [opinion]
Kenyans must defend the right to protest in all legitimate forms and those who used pigs in the recent Occupy Parliament demonstrations are free to do so, just as those who choose... Read more »
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Somalia: Defending My Wife - The Other Story of Sexual Violence in Somalia [opinion]
Muhildeen Shikh Mohamed is one of the few Somali men who stood up to defend his wife, Lul Ali Isman when she was gang raped by government security men. His story is among many of... Read more »
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