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RSS FeedJustice Initiatives: Pretrial Detention
2008-05-01
The Open Society Justice Initiative has released a new publication examining pretrial detention—the practice of jailing criminal suspects, sometimes for years, before trial—and efforts to reform its use. "The excessive use of pretrial detention viola...
Aimé Césaire: poetry as weapon
Nira Wickramasinghe (2008-04-23)
"Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge" (Aimé Césaire) Aimé Césaire died on 17 April 2008 in Fort-de-France on the French Caribbean island of Martinique at the ripe age of 94. His life and political choices are trul...
Kenya: Exhibition: Kenya Burning
2008-04-24
During the Kenya Elections 2007 and after, amateur and professional photographers alike captured powerful scenes of the campaigning, voting and ensuing violence and destruction. The exhibition tells this story through over 150 compelling images, pres...
The International Mobility of Talent
2008-04-24
Globalization has many faces but it essentially refers to the movements of goods, capital (real or financial), and people (skilled or unskilled).To an increasing extent, it refers to growing contacts among people. These movements and contacts bring w...
Book Review: Nuruddin Farah's Links
Mildred Barya (2008-04-16)
Publisher: Riverhead books, 2004. Hardback 334 pages. This is why there is hope for Somalia The novel Links, by Nuruddin Farah, opens with a very arresting line: “Guns lack the body of human truths!” Right away we are introduced to a st...
South Africa: Exhibition: Skin-to-Skin: Challenging Textile Art
2008-04-18
Skin-to-Skin: Challenging Textile Art opens at the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg on 16 April 2008, running until 10 May. Curated by Fiona Kirkwood, the exhibition reflects South Africa's multi-cultural identity and unique history through dive...
Review: Biopiracy of Biodiversity
Sifelani Tsiko (2008-04-01)
Andrew Mushita and Carol Thompson Africa World Press, 2008 A new book co-written by veteran Zimbabwe agronomist Andrew Mushita and United States-based political economist Carol Thompson, titled Biopiracy of Biodiversity -- Global Exchange As Encl...
"Dambudzo Marechera: A Celebration"
2008-04-10
"Dambudzo Marechera: A Celebration" is intended as a multi-media festival to celebrate the avant-garde work of Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987), to be staged in Oxford in the spring of 2009. Its additional aims are to promote world literatures in Engli...
The Betrayal of Africa
By Gerald Caplan (2008-04-09)
There is a widespread assumption among rich countries that Africa is the problem and that we in the rich world are the solution. This book turns this complacent, conventional wisdom on its head. It argues that the policies of rich countries, though c...
Clouds Move
Derrick Fine (2008-04-09)
Heart-warming, controversial and practical. Derrick Fine’s first book, Clouds Move, a memoir, published in 2007, intimately reveals his journey of living with HIV, detailing his experiences from his first coming out as a gay man to disclosing to clos...
Development As Freedom
Amartya Sen (2008-04-09)
Compelling and thought-provoking, Amartya Sen’s latest offering, Development as Freedom, is Nobel Prize winner for Economic Science in 1998. Sen provides a comprehensive summary of his thoughts on a key issue that has in recent decades, become a glob...
Book Review: Souls Forgotten by Francis B. Nyamnjoh.
Alice Macdonald (2008-03-11)
Langaa Publishers. Bamenda, Cameroon. 2008. [ISBN: 9789956558124, 360 pages, Price: £14.95] The prolific Cameroonian writer and academic Francis Nyamnjoh continues to delight his readers with the publication of his latest novel Souls Forgotten. So...
Just another Emperor?
The Myths and Realities of Philanthrocapitalism (2008-03-26)
Business involvement in philanthropy is increasing day by day, but is it a blessing, a curse, or somewhere in between? Just Another Emperor? is the first book to take a comprehensive and critical look at this vital new phenomenon. Whatever position y...
Black intellectual genocide
An essay review of "IQ and the Wealth of Nations" (2008-03-11)
Girma Berhanu reviews the book IQ and the Wealth of Nations, written by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen. He critiques the authors’ major assertion that a significant part of the gap between rich and poor countries is due to differences in national int...
New Literary Magazine:Call For Submissions
Cebound Projects and Ditiro Productions (2008-03-11)
Cebound Projects and Ditiro Productions are calling for submissions of poems, essays, reviews, stories and artworks for a new literary journal called Mo(v)ements. ...
Reclaiming the Resources for Health - Equinet
Review by Gregg Gonsalves (Arasa) (2008-03-12)
Reclaiming the Resources for Health, a new book by the Regional Network for Equity in Health in Eastern and Southern Africa is a godsend and could not come at a better time. It offers analyses of many key issues in an easily-accessible format, digest...
UK: "Son of Man" releases in the UK
2008-02-27
A bold new film from Golden Bear winning director, Mark Dornford May (“U-Carmen eKhayelitsha” – Golden Bear Berlin, 2005) is being released countrywide from the 7th of March. “Son of Man” is a revolutionary film that explores an interpretation of the...
Review of Shimmer Chinodya's Strife
Mildred Kiconco Barya (2008-02-27)
Strife is a novel laden with, yes, strife! It is at once a family story, a national one and eventually a borderless one. The author, Shimmer Chinodya, through the Gwanangara family takes on the task of interpreting and explaining happening events first by revisiting the past to deal with the upturning, unresolved business. The spirits start talking through Kelvin Gwanangara: ...
China’s New Role in Africa and the South
Fahamu Books (2008-02-20)
China’s global expansion is much talked about, but usually from the viewpoint of the West. This unique collection of essays, written by scholars and activists from China and the global South, provides diverse views on the challenges faced by Africa, Latin America and Asia as a result of China’s rise as a significant global economic power. Chinese aid, trade and investments – driven by the needs of its own economy – present both threats and opportunities for the South, requiring a nuanced analysis that goes beyond simplistic caricatures of ‘good’ and ‘evil’. ...
Black August: Bringing George Jackson's life to the screen
2008-02-15
If it's true that the less costly straight-to-DVD journey of any historically rooted drama is potentially bolder and more truthful, by more effectively bypassing the profit-driven political censorship of Hollywood, then Black August is certainly a st...
Mozambique: Video Art Workshop - Imaginary Lines
2008-02-15
Multiple ideas would well articulate a constantly changing world’s vision and open Imaginary Lines to individual experiences in which the validation of the individual emotional and creative spaces can be reclaimed and legitimised within a collective ...
GenerationKenya 45
2008-02-15
An innovative project to celebrate Kenyan success has taken on a new relevance and urgency in the light of continuing troubles caused by the 2007 disputed elections. GenerationKenya 45, which will document outstanding contributions by a nominated sel...
The Disillusioned African, by Francis Nyamnjoh
Reviewed br R. E Ekosso (2008-02-05)
I would not call this book a narrative in the conventional sense, but it tells a story nonetheless. It is a story of time, the times we live in. It is also (and this is where then non-narrative part comes in) a story of a man's mind. Charles is this ...
Africa: Zamdela Spoken Word festival
2008-02-05
The Zamdela Arts and Culture Center in conjunction with Ditiro Productions and Icebound Projects host the Zamdela Spoken Word Fest from 29 February to 2 March 2008. The festival is aimed at promoting the culture of reading and writing by improving th...
The Ballad of Sugar Moon and Coffin Deadly
Mphutlane wa Bofelo (2008-02-05)
Aryan Kaganof is a writer who possesses the rare capability to capture grotesque and bleak scenes and moments in words of a lyrical and poetic beauty that lands deep into the heart and mind of a reader like the melody of a serenading love song. In Th...
In the zone of waiting, by Goretti Kyomuhendo
Reviewed by Mildred K Barya (2008-02-01)
Goretti Kyomuhendo’s novella, Waiting, as the title suggests, is about waiting. A strange kind of waiting where, as the narrative unfolds, one does not experience the feeling that the characters or the community that are the novella’s focus are trapp...
Review of 'From slave trade to 'free' trade'
2008-01-26
FOREIGN POLICY (www.foreignpolicy.com) describes itself as "the premier, award-winning magazine of global politics, economics, and ideas." This influential right-wing magazine produced in Washington DC, devoted a two page tirade as a review of Fahamu's book "From Slave Trade to 'free' trade". The review, written by Jeffrey Herbst, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Miami University concludes: "... 'From the Slave Trade' speaks to more Africans than the speeches and databases of the world’s international financial institutions." With a recommendation like that, how could you resist getting your own copy (it's available free as a download)! Details at: http://www.fahamu.org/pzbook.php
"Souls Forgotten"; Francis Nyamnjoh's latest novel
2008-01-25
This novel is about coming of age and coming to terms in Mimboland. It is also about the fragility of life and the strength of the human spirit. The filth and screaming splendor of the city and the perplexed tranquility of the village are juxtaposed,...
Kenya: Call for submissions: the Museum debate
2008-01-23
On 12 December 2007 – Kenya’s independence day – the Kenya national museums of Kenya decided to paint all its buildings in its corporate colours. That included painting over a landmark mural, that for a year had become one of the main attractions of ...
Fanon, by John Edgar Wideman
2008-01-24
Wideman’s first novel in a decade conjures the author of The Wretched of the Earth and his urgent relevance today Wideman’s fascinating new novel weaves together fiction, biography, and memoir to evoke the life and message of Frantz Fanon, the influe...
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