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A ReaderSylvia Tamale
A groundbreaking book, accessible but scholarly, by African activists. It uses research, life stories and artistic expression to examine dominant and deviant sexualities, and investigate the intersections between sex, power, masculinities and femininities
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Horace CampbellIn this elegantly written and incisive account, scholar Horace Campbell investigates the political and economic crises of the early twenty-first century through the prism of NATO’s intervention in Libya.
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QUEER AFRICAN READER
Edited by Sokari Ekine, Hakima Abbas A diverse collection of writing from across the continent exploring African LGBTI liberation: identity, tactics for activism, international solidarity, homophobia and global politics, religion and culture, and intersections with social justice movements. A richness of voices, a multiplicity of discourses, a quiverful of arguments. African queers writing for each other, theorising ourselves, making our …more
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CHINA AND ANGOLA
A Marriage of Convenience?Edited by Marcus Power, Ana Alves
This book focuses on the increased co-operation between Angola and China and shows that although relations with China might have bolstered regime stability and boosted the international standing of the Angolan government, China is not regarded as a long term strategic partner.
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HOW EUROPE UNDERDEVELOPED AFRICA
Walter RodneyRodney shows how the imperial countries of Europe, and subsequently the US, bear major responsibility for impoverishing Africa. They have been joined in this exploitation by agents or unwitting accomplices both in the North and in Africa.
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PERSPECTIVES ON EMERGING POWERS IN AFRICA: DECEMBER 2011 NEWSLETTER
Deborah Brautigam provides an overview and description of China’s development finance to Africa. “Looking at the nature of Chinese development aid – and non-aid – to Africa provides insights into China’s strategic approach to outward investment and economic diplomacy, even if exact figures and strategies are not easily ascertained”, she states as she describes China’s provision of grants, zero-interest loans and concessional loans. Pambazuka Press recently released a publication titled India in Africa: Changing Geographies of Power, and Oliver Stuenkel provides his review of the book.
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The December edition available here.
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Algeria redux in Egypt
David Porter (2013-09-05)
cc J LEgypt appears to be following the bloody path of Algeria in the early 1990s. The leaderless revolution of 2011 has been coopted by the military yet requires the demise of the terrorizing capitalist world system that encourages both military regimes and authoritarian populisms
Samir Amin reflects on Egypt
Samir Amin (2013-09-05)
cc O ROn 15 July 2013 Samir Amin was interviewed by Beifang, China. He expressed his views that the action of the army was not a coup d’etat as well as the tasks facing the popular movement in Egypt
Dr. King was a man, ‘The Dreamer’ is a zombie
Bruce A. Dixon (2013-09-04)
cc L PKing’s ‘I Have A Dream’ speech wasn’t offered as the penultimate moment of his career till after his death. Those who offer it were the same corporate media honchos who first elevated, then slimed and slandered King the last year of his life. ‘The Dreamer’ too is their construct
The dreamer with a kill list
Glen Ford (2013-09-04)
cc U2The most powerful – and violent – man in the world was made the star of the commemoration of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King
King and the Universal Struggle for African Freedom – 50 Years Later
Edward H. Brown, Jr (2013-09-04)
cc S BThe best way for today’s Freedom Marchers to honour the great legacy of our past is to make specific demands and proposals that will remedy the ongoing racial injustices in the second decade of the 21st century
March on Washington 50th anniversary renews call for jobs and freedom
Abayomi Azikiwe (2013-09-04)
cc PTFifty years after the March on Washington, President Barack Obama is in the White House yet African Americans remain in poverty and suffer unemployment rates twice the size of that of the white population
GMOs: The frequently asked questions
Food Safety Ghana (2013-09-04)
cc G ACommercial interests, rather than health and scientific interests, are driving the push for genetically modified organisms. People in Africa need to know the truth about GMOs and resist their introduction
Dishonour among African election thieves
Alemayehu G Mariam (2013-09-05)
cc THEthiopia’s elections in 2015 are likely to be similar to the recent Zimbabwean elections that perpetuated a ‘thugtatorship.’ As long as the US and Europe continue to provide endless handouts, Africa is doomed to remain a thugocracy
Extreme weather and even more extreme greenhouse gas emissions beckon extremely committed climate activists
Patrick Bond (2013-09-04)
cc B WThere is ample evidence from around the world of extreme weather conditions arising from the devastating effects of climate change. But there is still plenty of denial among those who design and implement environmentally sensitive projects
Rwandans now weary of picking up the pieces of Kagame leadership
Antoine Roger Lokongo (2013-09-05)
cc K SThe Congolese army has been flexing its muscles in killing hundreds of Rwandan and Ugandan soldiers in eastern Congo. Demonstrations by the Congolese masses have taken place as well as a new cooperation agreement among some countries in the Great Lakes region
Nigeria’s electricity privatization
Kola Ibrahim (2013-09-04)
cc J GThe power sector should be taken out of the hands of private profiteers and corrupt, pro-big business public officers. The sector must be put under democratic public ownership
Is Africa really rising?
Ama Biney (2013-09-04)
cc A AImitating and catching up with the West lies behind the ‘Africa is rising’ narratives. Such narratives are uncritical of neo-liberal development models and therefore maintain Africa’s subordination to the international capitalist order
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