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Features
50 years later: Fanon's legacy
Nigel C Gibson (2011-12-21)
© abahlali.orgThe damnation of the world’s majority that Frantz Fanon spoke about did not end with the withdrawal of formal colonial rule. It continues in the razor wire transit camps, detention zones, rural pauperisation and in shanty towns, writes Nigel C Gibson.
A tribute to Steve Bantu Biko
Roy Trivedy (2011-12-22)
cc M B‘Steve Biko’s words had a profound effect on me. They helped shape my personal outlook and political beliefs,’ writes Roy Trivedy. ‘They also played a key role in helping me decide what I wanted to contribute in life.’
Biko’s legacy lives on in Swaziland’s civil society
Peter Kenworthy (2011-12-20)
© Free MaxwellFather of South Africa’s Black Consciousness Movement Steve Biko would have been 65 on 18 December. Peter Kenworthy looks at the influence of his ideas on Swazi civil society today.
Egypt: Where they have burned books…
Adham Hafez (2011-12-22)
cc A MSet on fire on 17 December, the Egyptian Scientific Institute was another casualty of last week’s clashes between the military and protestors in Cairo. Lillian Boctor speaks to artist Adham Hafez [MP3 – 7.8MB], one of the volunteers working to save books and manuscripts from the damaged building.
On Thomas Sankara's birthday
Aziz Salmone Fall (2011-12-22)
cc Cribb 10 Burkina Faso’s first president was assassinated nearly 25 years ago but the identity of his killers remains unresolved. Marking the anniversary of his birth, campaigners draw attention to the continuing struggle for justice for Sankara.
Africa lies naked to euro-American military offensive
Glen Ford (2011-12-22)
cc N IAmerican military influence has fanned out across Africa during 2011, thanks in large part to assistance from African governments.
Measuring African capital flight
Léonce Ndikumana and James K. Boyce (2011-12-21)
cc F S‘Africa is bleeding money, as capital flows into the private accounts of African elites and their accomplices in Western financial centres,’ write Léonce Ndikumana and James K. Boyce, in an excerpt from their new book.
Foreign aid to mining firms
Gwendolyn Schulman and Roberto Nieto (2011-12-21)
cc R OA new Canadian funding approach raises some serious ethical and political questions about the role of NGOs and constitutes a veritable PR coup for a mining industry discredited for environmental and human rights abuses.
In search of the voice of the South
Vijay Prashad (2011-12-22)
cc WikimediaWith international diplomacy at the UN deadlocked on issues like climate change, new regional formations offer a way forward.
The Durban denouement
Yoke Ling Chee (2011-12-22)
cc UN Climate ChangeForeign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, in her capacity as president of the COP 17, was a key player, writes Yoke Ling Chee. It is hard to not conclude that the EU agenda was at the forefront of the presidency’s preoccupations.
Climate Zombie tripped by dying carbon markets
Patrick Bond (2011-12-21)
cc S A'As the soul-deprived, brain-dead, heartless climate-policy Zombie stumbled off the Durban platform in the direction of Qatar for the COP18 next year, it immediately tripped on the crumpled carbon markets,' writes Patrick Bond.
Trinidad and Tobago: A PR disaster for the US
Norman Girvan (2011-12-22)
cc T-N-EEarly this month, the US repaid Trinidad and Tobago’s hospitality by acutely embarrassing the Caribbean nation in the presence of regional leaders. But, as Norman Girvan reports, it was America’s image that suffered the most.
South Africa: ‘Yes we know it’s Christmas’
hayibo.com (2011-12-22)
cc World BankA group of South African musicians has recorded a response to Bob Geldof’s 1984 song. Proceeds from the new single will go towards teaching discipline, literacy and contraception at British schools.