USA Africa Dialogue Series - FW: Pambazuka News 586: Africa Liberation Day and the new scramble for our lands

PAMBAZUKA NEWS 586: AFRICA LIBERATION DAY AND THE NEW SCRAMBLE FOR OUR LANDS

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Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839

CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Announcements, 3. Comment & analysis, 4.
Advocacy & campaigns, 5. Books & arts


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1 Features

AFRICAN UNITY: REVISITING THE POPULAR UPRISINGS OF THE NORTH
Awino Okech

The most important question post-uprising is how to entrench a
Pan-African agenda led by citizens that addresses the fundamental
challenges hampering African unity.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82400
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TIME TO RECALL THE LAND GRABBERS
An extract from 'The Great Food Robbery': Right Livelihood Award 2011
GRAIN's acceptance speech, 5 December 2011

People who just want to grow food and make a living from the land are
being expelled, criminalised, and sometimes killed, to make way for
land grabbers. It is nothing less than an assault on peasants.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82378
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THE GREAT FOOD ROBBERY TARGETS AFRICA
Interview with Devlin Kuyek by Molly Kane
Devlin Kuyek

'Who gets to eat and who doesn't is decided in a few rooms by boards
of directors composed mainly of rich men. A handful of people in
Northern countries deciding whether Africa is going to eat or not is
insane.'
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82375
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GROUPS REJECT FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN AFRICAN FARMING

This letter from African civil society critical of foreign investment
in African Agriculture at G8 Summit was presented by Mamadou
Cissokho,

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