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Rights, 7. Social movements, 8. Refugees and forced migration, 9.
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1 Highlights from this issue
THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS
WOMEN AND GENDER: Egypt bans female circumcision
CONFLICT AND EMERGENCIES: Consolidating the peace in Congo
HUMAN RIGHTS: Ethiopian crackdown punishes civilians
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: South African slum dwellers oppose bill
REFUGEES AND FORCED MIGRATION: Funding sought for hungry refugee
children
ELECTIONS AND GOVERNANCE: Nigerian party rejects coalition
AFRICA AND CHINA: China to search for oil in Sudan
DEVELOPMENT: Africa in the new millennium
HEALTH AND HIV/Aids: Algerian imams join in fight against Aids
EDUCATION: Higher education drives Uganda's development
LGBTI: Radio show back on South African airwaves
ENVIRONMENT: Why Uganda hates the plastic bag
LAND & LAND RIGHTS: Reducing poverty in rural Uganda
MEDIA AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: Gabonese publisher jailed
NEWS FROM THE DIASPORA: African Americans celebrate Lumumba's birthday
INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY: Rwanda leads Africa in ICT revolution
PLUS: e-newsletters and mailings lists; courses, seminars and
workshops and jobs
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2 African Union Monitor
AFRICAN CITIZENSHIP FOR ALL
Hakima Abbas
http://www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/AUMONITOR/C12
During the opening of the African Union Executive Council on June 28,
President Alpha Oumar Konare, Chairperson of the Commission of the
African Union (AU), referred to the issuance of the first diplomatic
African Union passports in May 2007 as a symbolic gesture toward
African citizenship. Civil society organisations (CSOs) attending the
summit called for the AU to move beyond symbolism to action.
Launching a campaign to demand full freedom of movement across the
Continent for every African, CSOs created African Citizens' passports
"valid until the member-states of the African Union issues an African
Passport as required to fulfill the vision of a people driven African
Union and a United Africa". The passports were personally issued to
the Hon Nana Akufo-Ado, Foreign Minister of Ghana, Hon Cheikh Tidiane
Gadio, Foreign Minister of Senegal, Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo and
South African artist Hugh Masekela as well as being distributed to 53
national delegations attending the Executive Council of Ministers of
Foreign Affairs of the AU.
The African Citizens' passport is a response to a growing demand for
an end to the humiliations and violations of rights suffered by
Africans at borders throughout the Continent. Millions of African
refugees, travelers and undocumented workers currently living outside
of their countries of birth are exposed to discrimination and the
denial of the rights to an identity, to freely work and access
essential services. Women are disproportionately affected by
arbitrary arrest, harassment, extortion and intimidation at border
crossing as they represent the majority of cross-border and informal
traders.
"We make all the noise about African unity yet Africans live within
their Continent as refugees", stated a young Ghanaian poet, DK Oseir
Yaw on the need for African citizenship.
Mrs. Julia Dolly Joiner, Commissioner for Political Affairs of the AU
Commission stated the benefits of freedom of movement across Africa
at the Launching of the African Union Diplomatic and Service
Passports. She noted that "free movement in the Continent will
ultimately have a positive impact on the political, social, economic,
cultural and developmental fronts, and contribute to greater
integration, increased trade, investment, tourism, technological
advancement, labour mobility and employment opportunities, student
exchange through diverse educational opportunities, peace and
security, larger markets for African goods and services, reduced
brain drain, greater unity and prosperity, amongst others."
The pan-Africanist vision of a unified Africa with one identity and
one citizenship was espoused by leaders from Nkrumah to Nyerere but
has yet to find concrete undertaking other than in national laws.
Renewed momentum was given to the call for African citizenship and
the establishment of the African passport during the First Conference
of Intellectuals of Africa and the Diaspora, organized by the AU
Commission in October 2004 in Senegal. Indeed, the right to freedom
of movement is enshrined in several international and African
instruments including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Treaty
Establishing the African Economic Community.
The launching of the African Union Diplomatic and Service Passports
in May was part of the AU's Priority Programme on Free Movement of
Persons detailed in the 2004 - 2007 Plan of Action to Speed Up
Integration of the Continent. The objective of the Plan of Action is
said to be the promotion of rapprochement between the people of
Africa and their interests and the building of collective awareness
through free movement of people, goods and services across the
Continent. As the Grand Debate on a Union Government concluded this
week with the Accra Declaration, Heads of States recognized "that
opening up narrow domestic markets to greater trade and investment
through freer movement of persons, goods, services and capital would
accelerate growth thus, reducing excessive weaknesses of many of our
Member States" but failed to take concrete action to enable this
freedom of movement. In order to move the debate into action, Heads
of States of the AU could begin by abolishing the need for visas for
African citizens traveling within Africa. Currently, an African from
Kenya requires a visa to travel to Senegal and is forced to submit to
the colonial paradigm by having to apply for such a visa from the
French embassy. Conversely, a Senegalese citizen traveling to Kenya
is forced to apply for the visa from the British embassy in Dakar.
Yet, the abolition of visas is not unprecedented in Africa. In the
ECOWAS region, citizens of West African States can travel without
visas throughout the 15 countries. It is only this type of action
that would directly and concretely affect the lives of millions of
Africans and capture the imagination of the people which would revive
a faith in the pan-African sentiment of State leaders. As Emmanuel
Akwetey of the Ghana AU Civil Society Coalition argues, "We cannot
have a union of African states or even a continental government
without continental citizenship. If citizenship is the fundamental
basis of any democratic national state, why shouldn't it be so at the
level of the Africa Union?"
ACCRA DECLARATION CONCLUDES GRAND DEBATE
http://www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/comments/272/
The Accra Declaration was ( www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/images/uploads/
ACCRAJuly2007AUSummitDECLARATION.pdf) adopted by Heads of States at
the conclusion of the African Union Summit. The Declaration reflects
some of the demands of civil society, particularly in regards to "the
importance of involving the African peoples in order to ensure that
the African Union is a Union of peoples and not just a "Union of
states and governments", as well as the African Diaspora in the
processes of economic and political integration of our continent" and
the need for "freer movement of persons, goods, services and capital"
as were elaborated in the final CSO Communique on the Grand Debate
(www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/images/uploads/
Final_Accra_CSO_communique.pdf).
ADOPT IT WITHOUT DELAY
http://www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/comments/276/
Daily Graphic - The President of Liberia, Mrs Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf,
has urged African leaders to endorse without delay the concept of a
United States of Africa. She has also prodded them to instruct, in no
uncertain terms, all regional economic commissions and community
institutions to formulate and adopt the road map and the time table
for the achievement that goal.
"This will allow institutions to move forward in peace with
progress." she added.
REPATRIATION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE GRAND DEBATE
http://www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/comments/271/
A statement from the Rastafari People at the African Union Grand
Debate was issued on July 2, 2007. It states: "The World Conference
Against Racism declared the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade as a crime
against humanity. This year, Britain and America have celebrated the
200th Anniversary of the end of that wickedness. The Republic of
Ghana, for its part, has also seen fit to do something to atone for
this crime against humanity and the complicity of some chiefs in the
deportation of their own people into what became the MAAFA - an
African Holocaust.
If it is morally and spiritually correct to talk about the wrongness
of forcibly transporting African people from Africa to the Americas,
then it is absolutely correct at this time to talk about the
rightness of transporting African people from the land of their
captivity to their ancestral homeland which is this continent known
today as Africa."
GENDER MAINSTREAMING IN THE AFRICAN UNION GOVERNMENT
http://www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/comments/273/
As part of the ongoing 'Gender is My Agenda Campaign,' aiming to
mainstream gender in the African Union (AU), the women's civil
society networks have organized the 10th AU Pre-Summit Consultative
meeting which was held in Accra, Ghana, on the 23rd and 24th June.
This meeting precedes the 9th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the
African Union and will be the 10th in a series of consultative
meetings of civil society networks concerned with gender issues and
the promotion of women's human rights in Africa.
DIASPORA NEEDS VOICE IN AFRICA GOVERNMENT
http://www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/comments/275/
The African diaspora needs a voice in the African Union and any
future African unity government to reflect the influence it exercises
across the world on the continent's behalf, civil rights leader Rev.
Jesse Jackson said.
But while he supported a push for greater African integration,
Jackson said issues like the conflict in Sudan"s western Darfur
region and the crisis in Zimbabwe must be tackled if unity was to
carry moral authority.
AU ADOPTS ACCRA DECLARATION TO PLAN INTEGRATION
Lavinia Mahlangu - BuaNews (Tshwane)
http://www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/comments/270/
Timelines and the method for Africa's integration are to be set out
according to the Accra Declaration, adopted late on Tuesday night by
the 9th Ordinary Session of the African Union Heads of Summit.
"We emerged from the Grand Debate with a common vision," AU Chair
John Kuofor and President of Ghana said on Tuesday, minutes before
midnight.
WORLD BANK PROVIDES US$5.7B GRANTS, LOANS TO AFRICA
PANA press
http://www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/comments/266/
The World Bank announced Monday that it provided a record US$5.7
billion in credits and grants to Sub-Saharan Africa in the fiscal
year ending 30 June 2007, up from US$4.7 billion in fiscal 2006.
A statement from the bank in Accra, venue of the ongoing 9th AU
Summit, said the development arm of the bank – International
Development Association (IDA) - provided the funding.
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3 Podcasts
MOBILE PHONE ACTIVISM IN SOUTH AFRICA
Sindy Mkhize
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/broadcasts/podcasts.php
Sindy Mkhize of the Abahlali baseMjondolo Shackdwellers Movement of
Durban speaks to Sokari Ekine of Pambazuka at the Pan African Mobile
Activists workshops held in Nairobi in June. Sindy who is a member of
the Abahlali Women's League discusses the pressure of living under
constant attack from local government and local police and also the
recent detention of members of the Kennedy Road location on charges
of murder. Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement is the largest organisation
of the militant poor in post-apartheid South Africa and is presently
engaged in fighting the proposed "KwaZulu-Natal Elimination &
Prevention of Re-emergence of Slums Bill" ( http://www.abahlali.org/
node/1629 ) .
For more see the Abahlali website ( http://www.abahlali.org ) .
Music in this podcast is brought to you by Busi Ncube from Zimbabwe,
kindly provided by Thulani Promotions ( http://www.thulani.net/ ) .
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4 Women and Gender
EGYPT: EGYPT BANS FEMALE CIRCUMCISION
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6251426.stm
Egypt has announced that it is imposing a complete ban on female
circumcision, also known as genital mutilation. The announcement
follows a public outcry after a young girl died during the operation.
A ban was introduced nearly 10 years ago but the practice continued
to be allowed in exceptional circumstances.
GLOBAL: GLOBAL FORUM FOR WOMEN WITH HIV
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73092
IDS does not only travel with truckers along African highways; it
flies business class with men in dark suits, crawls into marriages
and lurks in playgrounds. It smiles at you every day at work and,
disproportionately, affects African women and girls because of gender
inequalities.These were the words of activist Deborah Williams, from
Tobago, at the one-day Forum for Women Living with HIV and AIDS in
Nairobi, Kenya.
MAURITANIA: FEMALE JOURNALIST CHALLENGES STATUS QUO
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/3227
Hindou Mint Ainina presses for women's rights and political reform
editing a weekly paper that regularly makes enemies. With her Quill,
though, she has found ways to prod for change amid censorship and a
culture where women have little power.
SIRERRA LEONE: NEW LAWS GIVE WOMEN UNPRECEDENTED RIGHTS, PROTECTIONS
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73072
Women in Sierra Leone stand to enjoy unprecedented rights under new
laws making wife-beating a criminal offence, allowing women to
inherit property, and protecting young women against forced marriage.
One human rights coalition said the three laws, enacted by Sierra
Leone's parliament 14 June, will "help to radically improve the legal
position of women in Sierra Leone."
SWAZILAND: EMPOWERING WOMEN TO BEAT ABUSE
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73057
Most Swazi women who face domestic violence do not take their
children and walk out of the house. "They say, 'who is going to feed
me?'" Nonhlanhla Dlamini, Director of the Swaziland Action Group
Against Abuse (SWAGAA), told IRIN. But this is changing. An
innovative SWAGAA programme to empower women economically in
Swaziland's patriarchal society is helping many out of a cycle of
abuse and dependency.
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5 Conflict and emergencies
DRC: NEW REPORT ON CONGO BY INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=4933
Congo: Consolidating the Peace, the latest report from the
International Crisis Group, examines President Joseph Kabila's new
government and warns that the real gains that have been made are at
serious risk. While the transition helped unify the divided country
and improved security in much of it, governing institutions remain
weak, abusive or non-existent, and the national army is still the
country's worst human rights abuser while another crisis is looming
in the East.
SOMALIA: GOVERNMENT EXECUTES TWO AS BLASTS STRIKE
http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN546693.html
The Somali government on Thursday carried out its first formal
executions, killing two suspected Islamist insurgents convicted of
murdering a government official just three days earlier. But even as
the administration meted out capital punishment for the first time
since its formation in late 2004, rebels kept up a campaign targeting
government officials with a trio of blasts.
SOMALIA: MINE KILLS 5 CHILDREN
http://www.afrol.com/articles/26021
Five Somali children were killed by a land mine in the capital
Mogadishu. The children were reportedly playing with the device when
it suddenly exploded. The children came across the land mine when
they were asked to attend the Friday prayers at the mosque. Instead,
they decided to play football and in the process, they came across
the device. One of the children caused the explosion by throwing it
against a wall.
SOMALIA: NGO SUSPENDS RELIEF WORK DUE TO SECURITY CONCERNS
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73093
International Medical Corps (IMC) has announced a temporary
suspension of all its activities in and around the Somali town of El-
Berde, 420km northwest of the capital Mogadishu, citing security
concerns. "All IMC staff members employed in El-Berde have been urged
to relocate immediately and have been offered help in evacuating to
safer areas," the medical charity stated.
SUDAN: UN ENVOY SET FOR FRESH TALKS
http://www.afrol.com/articles/26018
A special envoy of the United Nations Secretary General, Jan
Eliasson, today arrives in Sudan to open fresh talks which aims to
foster political negotiations among parties to the Darfur conflict.
Mr Eliasson met the African Union-UN Joint Mediation Support Team in
Khartoum, the Sudanese capital. His discussion with the team had
centred on preparations for the proposed joint international meeting
on the Darfur political process in Libya.
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6 Human Rights
AFRICA: WHO POLICES THE UN?
http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/39839/2007/06/5-161516-1.htm
The United Nations is supposed to play global policeman, but what
happens when its own peacekeepers break the law? That's a question
raised by a string of incidents allegedly involving Pakistani and
Bangladeshi peacekeeping troops in war-ravaged Democratic Republic of
Congo in 2005.
DRC: MILITARY TRIAL ACQUITTALS RAISE CONCERN
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=23139
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has voiced
concern at the recent decision by a military court in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo to acquit all defendants of killings, torture
and other abuses that occurred during an operation by the country's
armed forces.
ETHIOPIA: CRACKDOWN IN EAST PUNISHES CIVILIANS
http://www.hrea.org/lists2/display.php?language_id=1&id=5168
The Ethiopian military has forcibly displaced thousands of civilians
in the country's eastern Somali region in recent weeks while
escalating its campaign against a separatist insurgency movement,
Human Rights Watch has reported. Both the government and rebel Ogaden
National Liberation Front (ONLF) must protect civilians and ensure
their access to humanitarian relief.
GLOBAL: NEW REPORT ON RIGHTS PERFORMANCE ON COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES
http://www.humanrightsinitiative.org/publications/hradvocacy/
easier_said_than_done.pdf
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) has released a new
report: "Easier Said than Done: A report on the commitments and
performances of the Commonwealth members of the UN Human Rights
Council". CHRI has been monitoring the performances of the 13
Commonwealth members of the Council (Bangladesh, Canada, Cameroon,
Ghana, India, Malaysia, Mauritius, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa,
Sri Lanka, UK and Zambia) and compared them with the pledges the
Commonwealth countries made prior to their election in the Council.
KENYA: HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED DEVELOPMENT AT THE GRASSROOTS LEVEL
http://www.equalinrights.org/content/HRBD_Kenya.html
In April 2007, equalinrights facilitated and supported a five day
workshop for 21 representatives of grassroots organisations in
Vihiga, Kenya. The main theme was: 'Empowering rural grassroots
stakeholders to confront poverty through human rights-based approaches'
RWANDA: FORMER ARMY MAJOR GETS 20 YEARS IN GENOCIDE TRIAL
http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN547002.html
A Belgian court sentenced a former Rwandan army major to 20 years in
prison on Thursday for the murder of 10 Belgian peacekeepers and an
undetermined number of Rwandan civilians at the start of the 1994
genocide. Bernard Ntuyahaga was earlier acquitted on two other
charges of involvement in the murder of then Prime Minister Agathe
Uwilingiyimana and killing civilians in the Butare district.
UGANDA: REBEL DEAL LEAVES QUESTIONS OVER JUSTICE
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L05631257.htm
It is not often that families of murder victims petition the courts
to forgive their killers. But in Uganda, almost an entire tribe whose
relatives were slaughtered and children kidnapped by Lord's
Resistance Army rebels are lobbying for them not to be tried before
an international tribunal. Fugitive LRA leader Joseph Kony and three
deputies are wanted by The Hague-based International Criminal Court
on charges including mass killing, mutilation and using child
soldiers. But in northern Uganda, few want them jailed.
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7 Social movements
SOUTH AFRICA: SLUMS ACT
Abahlali Shackdwellers
Richard Pithouse
http://www.abahlali.org/node/1629
Elimination and Prevention of Re-emergence of Slum Act - Abahlali
baseMjondolo is committed to opposing the Slums Bill via legal and
political strategies
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/socialmovements/42382
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8 Refugees and forced migration
COTE D'IVOIRE: DISPLACED PERSONS NEED MORE HELP - UN RIGHTS EXPERT
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=23111
An independent United Nations human rights expert has called on Côte
d'Ivoire's Government to ensure that the thousands of internally
displaced persons (IDPs) in the divided West African country have the
necessary means to make a safe and sustainable return to their home
towns and villages.
ETHIOPIA: REFUGEES LEAVE FOR THE US
http://www.unhcr.org/news/NEWS/468d0f88c.html
The UN refugee agency has begun the resettlement in the United States
of some 700 ethnic Kunama refugees from Eritrea, flying out a first
group of 29 from Addis Ababa after years of exile in northern
Ethiopia. The refugees left Shimelba camp earlier this week and flew
out from the Ethiopian capital on Wednesday evening after a pre-
departure briefing by staff of the International Organization for
Migration (IOM), which is handling the logistics of the resettlement
operation.
HORN OF AFRICA: ORGANIZATIONS URGE ACTION TO PREVENT RISING DEATH
TOLL AT SEA
http://www.unhcr.org/news/NEWS/468a7bd82.html
Amid a rising number of deaths among boatpeople making dangerous
voyages across the Mediterranean Sea, the Gulf of Aden and other
stretches of water, the UN refugee agency and the International
Maritime Organization (IMO) are calling for more action to prevent
this humanitarian tragedy.
KENYA: FUNDING SOUGHT FOR HUNGRY REFUGEE CHILDREN
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=23122
Three United Nations agencies are seeking $32 million from donors to
help cut malnutrition rates which they warned have reached "crisis
levels" among children under five living in refugee camps in Kenya.
SOMALIA: PUNTLAND STRUGGLES TO AID REFUGEES
http://tinyurl.com/34otc2
Hundreds of thousands of people have been driven from their homes by
almost daily fighting in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. The UN says
more than 400,000 Somalis fled the city in the last five months, many
of those have headed north towards Puntland, a semi-autonomous region
in the north east of the country. Al Jazeera's Mohammed Adow reports
that Bosaso, the region's largest city, is now struggling to provide
for its growing refugee population.
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9 Elections and Governance
NIGERIA: GOVERNMENT LIST SEEN AS MODEST BREAK WITH PAST
http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN523866.html
Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua's list of 35 proposed ministers was
announced on Thursday and political insiders said it was a tentative
break with the era of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The
portfolios were not specified, prolonging the suspense over who would
get the key oil and finance jobs.
NIGERIA: PARTY REJECTS COALITION
http://tinyurl.com/2sqok6
One of Nigeria's main opposition parties rejected an offer to join a
coalition government on Friday because it considers the ruling
party's victory in a recent election was illegitimate, reports Al
Jazeera. Umaru Yar'Adua, the new president, has invited the three
main oppostion parties to join the government to give him greater
legitimacy.
WESTERN SAHARA: UN AMENDS REPORT
http://tinyurl.com/2nwvrn
The UN has admitted that a report on the disputed Western Sahara
region, a long-standing row between Morocco and the Polisario Front,
was biased in favour of Morocco, Al Jazeera reports. A new report was
issued on Monday, after Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general,
acknowledged the bias.
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10 Africa and China
SOUTH AFRICA: THE PROBLEM WITH 'MADE IN CHINA' TEXTILES
http://132.203.59.36/NEW-PEP/Group/papers/papers/MPIA-2007-01.pdf
An important debate is underway in South Africa, on whether it should
protect its deteriorating textile industry. A paper published by
South Africa's Poverty and Economic Policy Network examines whether
implementing trade barriers will result in better domestic policy
objectives. It provides a dynamic analysis on the link between
textile protection and poverty.
SUDAN: CHINA TO SEARCH FOR OIL IN SUDAN
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6261418.stm
China's biggest oil company CNPC has reached a deal with Sudan to
search for oil and gas in the north of the country on the coast of
the Red Sea. The exploration will be carried out jointly with the
Indonesian state oil and gas company PT Pertamina.
ZAMBIA: MINERS 'SEE LITTLE REWARD'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6267754.stm
African nations are used to being plundered - the West perfected the
art. Now the new scramble for Africa's resources is coming from the
east. With a voracious economy to feed, China is devouring raw
materials - oil, copper, cobalt and zinc. And it is wooing
governments, including those who trample on human rights, with soft
loans, aid and arms sales.
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11 Development
AFRICA: AFRICA IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM
Francis Nyamnjoh
http://tinyurl.com/2wv2pe
In neo-liberal circles, The Market is packaged and presented as
omnipotent, omniscient and infallible. It is said to guarantee
success for those disciplined by its orthodoxies. It chastises
resistance, dissidence and creative difference by a ruthless and
reckless extravagance of force, propaganda and self-proliferation,
writes Francis Nyamnjoh in his paper, "Africa in the New Millennium:
Interrogating Barbie Democracy, Seeking Alternatives".
AFRICA: NEW EU HEAD PORTUGAL TO FOCUS ON AFRICA
http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=38428
Portugal, the new holder of the European Union's rotating presidency,
has promised that Africa will be one of its key priorities for the
next six months. Prime Minister José Socrates, whose government took
over the Union's helm Jul 1, is hoping to fulfil a long-standing
Portuguese ambition of hosting a summit between the EU and African
heads of state in Lisbon this December.
COST OF LIVING IN NAIROBI SLUMS
Humphrey Sipalla
Cost of living in Nairobi slums higher than minimum taxable income
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/development/42360
SUDAN: "1,000 WELLS FOR DARFUR"
http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?
fuseaction=readNews&itemid=3711&language=1
The president of Sudan, Omar Al Bashir, has agreed to an initiative
to tackle the problem of water shortage in northwestern Sudan. The
"1,000 Wells For Darfur" initiative was agreed on during a meeting
(20 June) in Khartoum between Al Bashir and the Egyptian scientist
Farouk El-Baz, director of the Center for Remote Sensing at the US-
based Boston University, who proposed the initiative.
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12 Health and HIV/AIDS
AFRICA: NO EVIDENCE WAR FUELS HIV CRISIS - STUDY
http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73045
Experts have long assumed that the violence, wide-scale rape and
refugee crises are the inevitable by-products of war that fuel HIV/
AIDS epidemics, but an analysis of HIV prevalence surveys from seven
sub-Saharan African countries with similar recent histories found no
evidence that higher HIV infection rates accompany conflict.
AFRICA: VIGILANCE PREVENTS COSTLY PREVENTION WORK
http://www.aidsmap.com/en/news/ADF9157F-71CC-4646-9802-827437C6A570.asp
HIV prevention campaigns in Africa and Asia are often tilting at the
wrong target and wasting money because of a basic lack of information
about who is becoming infected in a country, David Wilson of the
World Bank told the 2007 HIV Implementers' meeting in Kigali, Rwanda,
last month.
ALGERIA: IMAMS JOIN IN FIGHT AGAINST AIDS
http://tinyurl.com/ypq7xf
In a departure from tradition, religious communities in Algeria have
become increasingly involved in AIDS education in the country. To
this end, the Ministry of Religious Affairs organised a seminar on
Monday (July 2nd) in Algiers, in collaboration with the United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on the role of religious leaders
in the fight against AIDS.
SOUTH AFRICA: 'IRRATIONAL FEAR' AND 'STIGMA' FEED CALLS FOR CRIMINAL
HIV TRANSMISSION LAWS
http://www.aidsmap.com/en/news/094CF705-32F1-460F-9F58-406968FFC4E9.asp
Laws criminalising behaviour that may transmit HIV are "the product,
not of rational public health choices, but of irrational fears, which
provide an inveterately poor basis for rational law-making,"
according to South Africa's Justice Edwin Cameron. Speaking last
night at Birkbeck College in central London, at an event co-hosted by
NAM and the National AIDS Trust, Mr Justice Cameron argued that the
law's current place in the AIDS epidemic is primarily to create
"legislation specially protecting the rights of those with HIV."
SOUTH AFRICA: INFANT ARV TREATMENT STUDY SHOWS ADVANTAGE FOR
IMMEDIATE TREATMENT
http://www.aidsmap.com/en/news/89CA2C4D-D598-45C1-91C8-28CFA08ACD32.asp
A large study of immediate versus deferred antiretroviral treatment
in South African infants has found a significant advantage to
immediate treatment after just eight months of follow-up, and
researchers monitoring the trial have decided that the `deferred
treatment` arm of the study should be closed and all children not yet
receiving treatment should be evaluated to determine whether they
should start antiretroviral therapy.
SWAZILAND: NEW HIV FIGURES REVEAL EXTENT OF EPIDEMIC
http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72999
Swaziland's first Demographic Health Survey has found that 26 percent
of sexually active Swazis are infected with HIV. The last prevalence
survey, based on tests of pregnant women at antenatal clinics, had
found a 38.6 percent HIV infection rate. The new figure was derived
from a house-to-house survey by the Central Statistics Office for the
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.
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13 Education
UGANDA: HIGHER EDUCATION DRIVES DEVELOPMENT
http://www.eprc.or.ug/pdf_files/researchseries/series48.pdf
Recent evidence suggests higher education is both a result and
determinant of income. A report by Uganda's Economic Policy Research
Center examines the impact of higher education in Uganda's
development process and identifies ways to enhance its impact.
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14 LGBTI
SOUTH AFRICA: LGBTI RADIO SHOW RETURNS TO THE AIRWAVES
http://www.mask.org.za/article.php?cat=southafrica&id=1615
A national gay radio show, Tuesday Night, which was elbowed by the
South Africa Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) in 2005 returns to the
airwaves in July. The show was off-air for almost two years after
"the SABC placed unreasonable terms" that lead to closure broadcast,
according to producers. The show promises a variety of educational,
informative and entertaining programmes such as current affairs,
community events, arts and talk.
UGANDA: UGANDAN GAYS IN EMAIL ROW WITH MINISTER
http://www.mask.org.za/article.php?cat=uganda&id=1616
Gays in Uganda call upon Minister of Ethics and Integrity James Nsaba
Buturo to disclose emails expressing animosity that he claims to have
received. The allegation is being condemned by a couple of gay
organisations in Uganda. Victor Juliet Mukasa, chair of Sexual
Minorities Uganda (SMUG), has denied knowledge of such hate mail but
advised that if Buturo "is really receiving the mail, let him expose
it so that it can be addressed."
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15 Environment
GLOBAL: POLICYMAKERS MUST RETHINK DESERTIFICATION - UN
http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?
fuseaction=readNews&itemid=3717&language=1
A new policy report from the United Nations University (UNU) urges
governments to adopt a more coordinated approach to desertification.
The report, 'Rethinking Policies to Cope with Desertification', was
presented on 28 June at the United Nations headquarters in New York,
United States and is based on the input of 200 experts from 25
countries.
LIBERIA: UNCONTROLLED TRASH GREATEST PUBLIC HEALTH THREAT
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73065
As mountains of garbage expand in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, the
UN Environment Programme has called on the government and private
sector to repair the country's broken system for collecting trash.
"Solid waste management is arguably the greatest public health threat
in Monrovia," UNEP's Michael Cowing told IRIN. "There is virtually no
waste management secto
UGANDA: WHY UGANDA HATES THE PLASTIC BAG
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/
6253564.stm
This weekend Uganda joins the growing number of East African
countries which have banned the plastic bag in an attempt to clean up
cities and prevent environmental damage including blocked drains.
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16 Land and land rights
UGANDA: PROMISED LAND: A KEY TO REDUCING POVERTY IN RURAL UGANDA
http://www.eprc.or.ug/pdf_files/researchseries/series49.pdf
Rising poverty in rural Uganda is linked to increasing landlessness,
as the latter drives land degradation and reduces agricultural
productivity. A paper published by Uganda's Economic Policy Research
Centre examines the complex relationship between owning land and
poverty. It identifies effective strategies and land policy guidance
to address this concern.
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17 Media and freedom of expression
DRC: JOURNALIST DETAINED
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/84672/
Esther Wakilongo, a journalist with privately-owned Vision Shala
Television (VSTV), was detained by Lieutenant-Colonel Anicet
Muhimuzi, head of intelligence for the national police, while she was
covering the parade organised for the anniversary of the country's
independence in Bukavu (the largest city in South Kivu province, in
the country's east). Although she presented her press card, the
lieutenant-colonel seized her camera on the grounds that she did not
possess "the badge granting authorisation to take pictures."
ETHIOPIA: JOURNALIST DIES IN ATTEMPT TO FLEE TO SUDAN
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/84679/
Ethiopian journalistPaulos Kidane, a journalist with the Amharic-
language service of state-owned Eri-TV and radio Dimtsi Hafash (Voice
of the Broad Masses), died in June 2007 in an attempt to flee on foot
across the border into Sudan.
GABON: EDITORIAL CRITICAL OF PRESIDENT LANDS PUBLISHER IN PRISON
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/84671/
An editorial critical of Gabonese President Omar Bongo, Africa's
longest-serving head of state, has led authorities in the capital,
Libreville, to arrest a publisher and suspend his newspaper,
according to news reports and local journalists. Guy-Christian
Mavioga, director of the private periodical L'Espoir, has been in
police custody since Thursday on accusations of offending the head of
state in connection with a June 14 editorial headlined "The last days
of Bongo," local journalists told CPJ.
SIERRA LEONE: EDITOR OUT ON BAIL
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/84604/
Philip Neville, the editor of the privately-owned "Standard Times"
daily newspaper, was released from Pademba Road prison late on 3 July
2007 after paying bail. No date has yet been set for his trial. On 2
July, a Freetown court charged Neville with "libel", "malicious
propaganda" and "publishing false news", and set very tough
conditions for his provisional release.
TUNISIA: BLOGGING FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND AGAINST BAD JOURNALISM
http://tinyurl.com/2andk6
Tunisian bloggers were angered recently by police intimidation of
independent magazine Kalima starting May 17th, raising questions once
again about the lack of press freedom in the country. In his post,
"Kalima Tunisie: libérez la parole," Tunisian blogger Cos-Maux-Polis
joined the World Association of Newspapers in its condemnation of
"the intimidation and repression of the independent press in Tunisia".
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18 News from the Diaspora
GLOBAL: AFRICAN AMERICANS CELEBRATE LUMUMBA'S BIRTHDAY
Patrice Emery Lumumba (July 2, 1925 - January 17, 1961) was the first
freely elected Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Beloved by his people, he was assassinated by western interests for
advocating that the Congo's vast mineral wealth be used first and
foremost, to benefit the people of the Congo. A monument by Nijel PBG
will pay tribute to the vision and legacy of Patrice Emery Lumumba.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/diaspora/42447
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19 Internet and technology
AFRICA: AFRICA NEEDS 3ES NOT 3GS
The Chief Executive of the Commonwealth Telecommunications
Organisation (CTO), Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, says what Africa needs at
the moment is 3Es rather than 3Gs. Speaking at the recently concluded
18th annual session of the Crans Montana Forum in Monte Carlo, at the
ministerial panel on Information and Communication Technology (ICT),
that took place in Monaco, Dr. Spio-Garbrah said that the 3Es needed
urgently by the continent is "education, empowerment and employment"
of the citizenry.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/internet/42451
GAMBIA: RURAL WIRELESS EXPANSION IN CRISIS
The Gambia's efforts to provide wireless telephones to 350 villages
have been hampered by insufficient funds, the country's
Communications and Information Technology Minister, Nenneh Macdouall-
Gaye, told parliament.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/internet/42452
GLOBAL: AFRICANS TOP INTERNET GOVERNANCE PARTICIPANTS IN 3 YEARS
The Maltese-based international non-profit organisation, the
DiploFoundation has trained a total of 265 persons on its Internet
Governance Capacity Building Programme (IGCBP) from developing
countries since 2003 with 45.5 per cent coming from Africa.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/internet/42454
KENYA: 1,000 MANAGERS TO BE TRAINED FOR DIGITAL VILLAGES
http://www.balancingact-africa.com/news/current1.html#computing
The Kenya government is launching a Digital Village Project to
establish information and communications technology centres
throughout the country. To jump-start the process, the programme is
designed to train 1,000 digital village managers to manage the
centres in the 210 constituencies in the country.
RWANDA: RWANDA LEADS AFRICA IN ICT REVOLUTION
http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=38423
Less than fifteen years after the genocide that destroyed much of
Rwanda's human capital, infrastructure, and socio-economic fabric,
the country is set to become sub-Saharan Africa's hub for information
and communications technology (ICT).
WEST AFRICA: BENIN TO HOST FIRST WEST AFRICAN E-CONTENT SUMMIT
A summit to discuss e-content strategies for the West African region
under the theme:"Improving Digital Lifestyles in Sub-Saharan Africa"
is due in Benin. The e-content summit is expected to be opened by the
President of the Republic of Benin, H.E. Dr. Thomas Boni Yayi.
Meanwhile the Benin-based World Summit Award (WSA) partner, Afrique
Emergence and the Government of the Republic of Benin will be the co-
hosts.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/internet/42453
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20 Fundraising and useful resources
AFRICA: CALL FOR AUTHORS - AFRICA HISTORY AND CULTURE
http://sociolingo.wordpress.com/tag/academic/african-jobs/
ABC-CLIO is in the process of developing a comprehensive 21-volume
Encyclopedia of World History. We are looking for interested scholars
to prepare 500-1500 word articles with a global perspective in the
area of African History and Culture. contributors will have their
names associated with the entries they contribute, and will receive
access to the e-book version of the entire encyclopedia (list price
$1,800) for personal use. Contributors assigned 3,000 words or more
will also receive a credit of $300 towards purchase of ABC-CLIO books.
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21 Courses, seminars, and workshops
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - AGENDA
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - RAPE JOURNAL Call for Abstracts. Abstracts and
contributions must be written in English language and a style
accessible to a wide audience. Please submit abstracts to
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All abstract submissions must:
* Specify the specific key area you would like to write on;
* Count 200-300 words;
* Include contact details: your name, institution/organisation,
telephone, email and the country in which you reside/country of origin.
Deadline: Please submit no later than 11 July 2007.
GLOBAL: CODESRIA SOUTH-SOUTH COMPARATIVE RESEARCH SEMINARS
The Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA),
the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and the
Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
(CODESRIA) are pleased to call for applications for participation in
the South-South comparative research seminar series they are
organising within the framework of the initiative. The seminar will
take place in Accra, Ghana, from 21 to 23 September, 2007.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/courses/42441
GLOBAL: INTERNATIONAL COURSE TRAINING THE TRAINERS (RADIO, TELEVISION
& INTERNET)
http://www.rnw.nl/rntc/studyatrntc/rntc_ttt_2008.php
The course runs from 19th May to 28th June 2008, and aims to
strengthen the capacity of trainers, training organisers and
educators working in or for the broadcast sector to assess training
needs and design, develop and deliver effective and efficient
training solutions. These training solutions will enable broadcast
organisations to meet the challenges of increased competition,
technological change and professional mobility and to improve the
quality and appropriateness of their output.
GLOBAL: MIGRANTS AND MAKING OF INDIAN OCEAN CULTURES - CONFERENCE
School of Oriental & African Studies at the University of London will
be hosting a conference on Migrants and making of Indian Ocean
cultures on Wednesday 11 July 2007. Cross-cultural Outcomes from the
dispersal and movement of peoples and cultures within the Indian
Ocean will be the main theme of this Conference.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/courses/42446
KENYA: DIGITAL STORYTELLING!
APC-Africa-Women, in partnership with Women'sNet, invite you to
submit an application to participate in a digital storytelling
workshop. This workshop is aimed at women who document (as content
developers, librarians, archivists, journalists, mediators,
translators, information activists etc.) the lives of women affected
by violence in Africa.
Deadline 19th July
For more information see the APC website at: http://www.apcwomen.org
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22 Jobs
AFRICA: EXECUTIVE SECRETARY - AAWORD
The Association of African Women for Research & Development (AAWORD)
invites applications from suitably qualified African Women scholars/
administrators for the post of Executive Secretary (ES). This
position is the highest management post in the Secretariat and the
successful candidate shall be responsible for the overall day-to-day
management of the Secretariat and the affairs of the association. The
deadline for applications is July 20th, 2007.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/jobs/42449
GLOBAL: ARMED VIOLENCE AND PEACE PROCESS CONSULTANTS - CENTRE FOR
HUMANITARIAN DIALOGUE
http://tinyurl.com/yt8ck4
The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue's Arms Programme is seeking
expressions of interest from consultants to take on assignments
varying in length from one to three/four months. Application deadline
is 27 July 2007
GLOBAL: LITIGATION DIRECTOR - OPEN SOCIETY JUSTICE INITIATIVE
http://www.justiceinitiative.org/about/positions
The Justice Initiative is seeking a Litigation Director to develop,
oversee, and refine as needed the strategic direction and
implementation of all litigation activity by the Justice Initiative.
In carrying out this cross-cutting activity, the Litigation Director
collaborates closely with staff in each of the thematic and
geographic programs of the Justice Initiative. Start Date: October 2007.
KENYA: PROGRAM OFFICER - RESEARCH MATTERS
http://www.idrc.ca/ev_en.php?ID=113410_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC
Research Matters is recruiting a Program Officer to join the team,
based out of IDRC's Nairobi office. S/he will develop and implement
projects and activities approved under the Research Matters project
description and Governance, Equity and Health (GEH) prospectus, with
particular emphasis on liaison with research users and close
collaboration with SDC staff and partners in the field and in Berne.
Closing Date is July 19, 2007.
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23 Publications
SILENCES IN NGO DISCOURSE: THE ROLE AND FUTURE OF NGOS IN AFRICA
Issa G Shivji
Issa Shivji has long been one of the most articulate critics of the
destructive effects of neoliberal policies in Africa, and in
particular of the ways in which they have eroded the gains of
independence.
In two extensive essays in this book, he shows that the role of NGOs
in Africa cannot be understood without placing them in their
political and historical context. Aid, in which NGOs play a
significant role, is frequently portrayed as a form of altruism, a
charitable act that enables the wealthy to help the poor. As
structural adjustment programmes were imposed across Africa in the
1980s and 1990s, the international financial institutions and
development agencies began giving money to NGOs for programmes to
minimise the more glaring inequalities perpetuated by their policies.
As a result, NGOs have flourished – and played an unwitting role in
consolidating the neoliberal hegemony in Africa.
If social policy is to be determined by citizens rather than the
donors, argues Shivji, African NGOs must become catalysts for change
rather than the catechists of aid that they are today.
Issa Shivji is one of Africa's most radical and original thinkers and
has written frequently for Pambazuka News. He is the author of
several books, including the seminal Concept of Human Rights in
Africa (1989) and, more recently, Let the People Speak: Tanzania down
the road to neoliberalism (2006).
ISBN: 978-0-9545637-5-2. 84pp, July 2007, Oxford: Fahamu
Price £7.95
For further information and details of how to order, please see
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FROM THE SLAVE TRADE TO 'FREE' TRADE: HOW TRADE UNDERMINES DEMOCRACY
AND JUSTICE IN AFRICA
Edited by Patrick Burnett and Firoze Manji
Leading up to the 200th commemoration of the abolition of the slave
trade and the 50th anniversary of Ghana's independence, Pambazuka
News carried a series of four special issues during 2006 and 2007
that included articles designed to raise awareness and debate on
issues of trade and justice. These and other articles from Pambazuka
News have been gathered in this book.
We have chosen a deliberately provocative subtitle for this book:
'How trade undermines democracy and justice'. Two years ago saw large
mobilisations around the world, calling for 'trade justice'. The
campaigners were lobbying for the introduction and implementation of
new world trade rules, ones that would work for all people, instead
of benefiting those who already have the most. They argued that the
global trading system should be rebalanced, taking into account the
needs of the poor, human rights and the environment.
But, can trade in the era of globalisation be 'fair' or 'just'?
Drawing on lessons from the slave trade, studies of the international
finance institutions and the struggles of many African people to make
a living, these essays provide insights into how free trade policies
have a profoundly negative impact on democracy and justice in Africa.
Whether it is the effects of trade policies on informal street
traders, who in Africa are often women, the decimation of a country's
health system as a result of the World Bank's obsession with low
inflation, or the sacrificing of community rights in the interests of
multinational corporations, it is clear that 'free' trade policies
impose a profit first and people last regime in Africa.
Many of the book's contributors will be familiar to the readers of
Pambazuka News. They include Charles Abugre, Tope Akinwande, Soren
Ambrose, Nnimmo Bassey, Patrick Bond, Jennifer Chiriga, Cheikh
Tidiane Dièye, M.P. Giyose, Manu Herbstein, Mouhamadou Tidiane Kasse,
Salma Maoulidi, Stephen Marks, Mariam Mayet, Henning Melber, Winnie
Mitullah, Patrick Ochieng, Oduor Ongwen, Robtel Neajai Pailey,
Liepollo Lebohang Pheko and Jagjit Plahe.
The publication of this book was made possible with the support of
HIVOS, http://www.hivos.nl
ISBN: 978-0-9545637-1-4. 180pp, July 2007, Oxford and Nairobi: Fahamu
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PAULIN HOUTONDJI (ED): LA RATIONALITE, UNE OU PLURIELLE
New titles from CODESRIA
http://www.codesria.org/Links/Publications/new_publ/Hountondji.htm
Edited by one of Africa's foremost intellectuals, former deputy chair
of CODESRIA and deputy chair of the International Council of
Philosophy and Humanistic Studies (ICPHS), this work investigates how
reason, an attribute of all of humanity, expresses itself in
different cultures, in diverse, plural and unified forms.
The extensive and comprehenive work is divided into three parts, on
explorations of 'rationality', rationalities and cultures, and
theoretical and social practices. Essays in both French and English
are included.
The work stems from a conferences organised by Unesco and the Centre
africain des hautes etudes in Porto-Novo, Benin to coincide with the
26th general assembly of the ICPHS.
The contributors of over 36 chapters include Richard Rorty,
Bonaventure Mve-Ondo, Honorat Aguessy, Abdoulaye Elimane Kane and
Ariane Djossou-Segla.
ISBN: 978-2-86978-181-8, 476pp., 2007 CODESRIA
Orders - Africa, http://www.codesria.org
N.America - Michigan State Univ. Press, http://www.msupress.msu.edu
Elsewhere - African Books Collective, http://
www.africanbookscollective.com
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