Henry Makori

THE TYRANNY OF NUMBERS

Abahlali baseMjondolo is the largest shack dwellers social movement in South Africa, fighting for the rights to land, housing and a decent human life in the so-called ‘Rainbow Nation’.

Last weekend, Wole Soyinka, the doyen of African literature and an indefatigable soldier for freedom, thundered against “a culture of civic callousness, a coarsening of sensibilities and a general hum

‘We must say these things before we die!’ – Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe, revolutionary founding president of the Pan African Congress, apartheid prisoner and noted pan-Africanist

For weeks now, an interesting controversy has been raging in Kenya about a popular seasoning product made by the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant Unilever.

I have many memories of Rwanda from my visit in 2010. But three stand out.

President Yoweri Museveni has done it.

In May, Malawian President Joyce Banda had a nasty spat with the media in her country. The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Malawi Chapter had requested the president to sign the Declaration of Table Mountain.

One of the lasting images of media coverage of the last election is arguably that of NTV reporter/presenter Larry Madowo. On Election Day, March 4, Madowo started off with a live report at a polling station in Nairobi. After a short while, he was back up on TV reporting from Garissa Town.

This issue of Pambazuka News focuses on Hugo Chavez, the fallen socialist revolutionary leader of Venezuela whom, no doubt, the capitalist West and their toadies in the rest of the world would like to forget in a hurry.