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Features
Struggles for the promised land: Letters from West African sisters
2012-05-10
cc W BThese simple exchanges between two citizens of Africa show their dreams, pain, hope and civic action to ensure that the continent becomes the promised land where everyone can live in peace and justice, solidarity and prosperity.
Luttes pour la terre promise: Lettres entre soeurs d’Afrique de l'Ouest
2012-05-10
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Les lettres qui suivent font partie d'un échange émouvant et d’une rare perspicacité entre deux femmes qui ont été, pendant des décennies, des leaders respectés de mouvements citoyens en Afrique de l'Ouest. Deux femmes connues pour leur sagesse, leur courage, leur créativité et leur engagement sans faille pour la justice, la paix et le bien-être de leurs pays respectifs, la Guinée-Bissau et le Mali. Cette semaine, Pambazuka est heureux de partager une partie de ces correspondances personnelles, échangées à la suite des coups d'Etat survenus d’abord au Mali en mars, puis en Guinée-Bissau en avril. Les lettres ont été traduites du français et sont signés avec des noms d’emprunt pour la sécurité de ces femmes, de leurs camarades et de leurs familles en ces moments difficiles qu’ils sont en train de vivre. (La version en anglais des lettres peuvent être lues à [url=http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82019]
Global and national resistance to GMOs
Nnimmo Bassey (2012-05-09)
cc G FTo push genetically engineered crops into Africa, the promoters work hard to ensure lax biosafety laws, ignore the Africa Model Law on Biosafety and ensure lack of transparency while truncating participation.
South Africa: Respect our rights
Pumla Gqola (2012-05-09)
cc W HThe proposed law results from consultations between the state and traditional leadership structures. It ignores the voices of millions of rural women disenfranchised by those structures.
Rising tribalism in South Africa
William Gumede (2012-05-09)
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A solidarity for the vulnerable that cuts across the ethnic, regional and political divide is the final counter-balance against tribalism in South Africa.
Courts in charge of (re)writing history?
Vincent Larochelle (2012-05-10)
cc G E PAre international criminal courts serving political agendas rather than upholding legal principles of justice? The recent ruling on the Charles Taylor case raises troubling questions.
The cabalization of the Republic of Malawi
Uche Igwe (2012-05-08)
cc T LAlthough the Malawian constitution is clear about succession in the event of the death or incapacitation of the president, a cabal close to the late President Mutharika wanted to install their own man in power instead of Vice President Joyce Banda.
Bingu’s legacy and the political future of Malawi
Steve Sharra (2012-05-10)
cc W E FThe late President Mutharika was hailed at home and abroad. But after the 2009 landslide re-election victory, his quest to engineer the election of his brother to succeed him in 2014 and increased autocracy astounded many.
Reclaiming Malawi: Solidarity in times of peril
Steve Sharra (2012-05-08)
cc T LVarious forms of solidarity have been seen in Malawi recently. But effective solidarity can only be achieved when the elites shed their tendency to alienate those groups they see as ‘illiterate’, ‘uneducated’ and ‘ignorant’.
The collapse of the Euro; the Fall of the CFA
Chika Ezeanya (2012-05-10)
cc M M PAfrican countries operating under the exploitative CFA Franc must free themselves from its shackles.
The failure of the Arab “State” and its opposition
Hisham Bustani (2012-05-08)
cc A TThe post-colonial Arab state was everything else but a state. Concepts like the rule of law, governing institutions and citizenship rights did not apply. With a few exceptions, the organised Arab opposition seldom challenged this system.
Senegalo – Gambian relations: Continuities in the past and future
Jeggan C Senghor (2012-05-08)
cc WikimediaClose ties between Senegal and The Gambia go back many decades. But the collapse of the Senegambia Confederation underscores one lesson among many: Every effort must be made to ensure popular support for cooperation endeavours.
Draft Constitution challenges Somalia’s will for nationhood
Mohamud M Uluso (2012-05-09)
cc B-KThe proposed constitution serves the interests of the Transitional Federal Government and its international backers, not the people of Somalia.
The Zimbabwe constitution-making process and outcome
Maxwell V Madzikanga (2012-05-09)
cc A BA lot of money and time have been invested in writing a new constitution. There are several drafts lying around. Why not immediately hire reputable drafters to finish off the job and put the resulting document to a referendum?
A call to people of colour: Build towards liberation
Sharon Cromwell (2012-05-10)
cc E VFor people of colour the time has come to seek true liberation: not by struggling to be heard by the powers that be but by hearing one another’s voice and building solidarity.
What exactly is the value of ethnic accounting in Kenya?
Samuel Abonyo (2012-05-10)
cc K TKenya's National Cohesion And Integration Commission (NCIC) has claimed that ‘the five largest communities’ have a disproportionate share of total workforce in public universities and constituent colleges in Kenya. But how does this make a contribution to national cohesion and integration?
The latter day slave merchants in Kenya
Julius Okoth (2012-05-10)
cc I C IMass unemployment is forcing thousands of Kenyans into the hands of private employment bureaus who export them to the Middle East where they often become trapped in abusive and exploitative work.
Justice for the Congolese attainable in 2012
Kambale Musavuli (2012-05-10)
cc W MWith the perpetrators of a war that has killed an estimated six million people in the Congo still roaming free, justice needs to be delivered to create the conditions for peace and reconciliation.