Fahamu (Oxford)
Website: http://www.pambazuka.org/en/
May 30
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Africa: Contextualizing Gender Based Violence Within Patriarchy in Nigeria [opinion]
Gender based violence is entrenched in the strong patriarchal ideologies of control, subversion and subordination of women and girls. Efforts to resists this has mostly been... Read more »
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Africa: Why the DA Can Never Have Struggle Credentials [opinion]
The Democratic Alliance desperately needs struggle credentials because they realise that, in order to advance the agenda of white capital in South Africa, they need to legitimatise... Read more »
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Kenya: Freedom House Condemns Arrest of Peaceful Protestors in Kenya [opinion]
The Kenyan government's decision to prosecute 17 peaceful protestors on the spurious charges of breach of peace and disturbance after a demonstration to oppose parliamentary salary... Read more »
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Africa: Women Rising - Political Leadership in Africa Cocumentary Launched [opinion]
FEMNET (African Women's Development and Communication Network) and UNDP (United Nations Development Program) launched Women Rising - a documentary on Political Leadership in Africa... Read more »
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Nigeria: Nigeria - Garlands for the President [opinion]
The upsurge of support in the wake of declaring a state of emergency to combat insurgency opens a much-needed window for Nigeria's president, Goodluck Jonathan, to change tactics... Read more »
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Africa: The Roll-With-the-Whole-Design [opinion]
In all my years in the United States and there are a few cultural tendencies I still have not been able to get used to: bagels, children talking back or 'sassing' their parents,... Read more »
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Africa: German Cultural Foundation and Africa [opinion]
For the cultural initiative to accomplish its good intentions in Africa, it needs to take into cognizance in its plans the cultural and ethnic diversities as well as the size of... Read more »
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Africa: 'Today Na Today' - Biko Agozino Sings from Abroad in Naija Creole [book review]
With the release of his latest poetry book, entitled 'Today na Today', an anthology of poems written in Naija langwej (pidgin English), a waning subsector of Nigerian literature... Read more »
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Kenya: Civil Society Protest - Nothing Crude About the Mode [opinion]
The recent 'Occupy Parliament' protests in Kenya elicited negative comments from certain quarters on the use of pigs to equate the rapacity of pigs with that of parliamentarians... Read more »
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Africa: Reject Barack Obama's Personal Responsibility Snake-Oil! [opinion]
United States President Barack Obama appears to never pass up an opportunity when addressing Afrikan Americans to shift the responsibility for their success to personal effort and... Read more »
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Africa: Ending violent conflict in the Great Lakes Region of Africa [opinion]
Genuine all inclusive, society-wide, regional, Africa-led strategies are necessary to resolve the crisis in the Great Lakes region rather than billions of dollars in aid as... Read more »
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Africa: Exposing the Invisible - African Women and the OAU [opinion]
Though little acknowledged, one year prior to the founding of the OAU, Pan African Women's Organization was formed in 1962 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It could be said that PAWO... Read more »
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Africa: African Liberation Day 2013 - Reflecting on the Past and Planning to Accelerate Full Unification of the Peoples [opinion]
While the heads of state busied themselves with neo-liberal discourses about 'poverty reduction and governance' at last week's AU Summit, the intellectuals, activists, artists and... Read more »
May 29
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Africa: Africa Today - Reflections On Resilience [opinion]
The African humanity currently generates, overwhelmingly, the capital resource that at once sustains it and is exported to the Western world. The notion that Africans are in any... Read more »
May 23
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Africa: Africa and U.S. Imperialism - Post-Colonial Crises and the Imperatives of the African Revolution [opinion]
A reflection on five decades since the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), while the Pentagon and NATO escalate their war drive on the continent Read more »
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Africa: The African Union At 50 - Missed Opportunities and Lessons for the Future [opinion]
A Post-independent African leaders have failed to realise the aspirations and hopes of self-determination and unity of the African people. There are five basic steps that AU member... Read more »
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Africa: African Civil Society Calls for AU Action On Eritrea [opinion]
In a petition, the organisations say the ongoing widespread and systematic nature of human rights violations in Eritrea underlines the need for continued and urgent action by the... Read more »
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Africa: State of the Union [document]
Address by the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Dr. Dlamini Zuma to the Third Pan African Parliament Read more »
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Africa: The Organization of African Unity (OAU)/African Union at 50 [opinion]
The Quest for New Foundations of African Solidarity in the 21st Century Read more »
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Africa: The Birth of the OAU [opinion]
Africans yearn to come and go within the continent without visas; to work where they like; and expect to be treated as if they were 'home' - despite being far away from the... Read more »
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Africa: Celebrating Tajudeen, the OAU and AU - Which Way Africa? [opinion]
This special issue celebrates not only 50 years of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and its successor, the African Union (AU), but also the life of the late Tajudeen... Read more »
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Africa: Our Future Grown in Africa - Agriculture in the African Union [opinion]
Food security has been a major concern for Africans over the decades but, surpringly, the OAU/AU did little to support agriculture and other forms of food production. This needs to... Read more »
May 22
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Africa: AU Coming of Age a Cause for Celebration? [opinion]
The focus of the next 50 years for the African Union should be to move from being a rigid bureaucracy to an agile organisation, which is able to flex and move at speed in a global... Read more »
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Africa: Four Years On the Spirit of the African Soldier the Indefatigable Dr Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem Lives On [opinion]
In a personal reflection of the late Dr.Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, a foremost champion of Pan-Africanism in recent years, he is remembered as one who spoke truth to the powerful and... Read more »
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Africa: Pan-Africanism and African Renaissance [opinion]
More questions than answers as the African Union celebrates 50 years Read more »
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