USA Africa Dialogue Series - Pambazuka News 632: Profiting from poverty: African struggles for dignity and freedom

Subject: Pambazuka News 632: Profiting from poverty: African struggles for dignity and freedom

PAMBAZUKA NEWS 632: PROFITING FROM POVERTY: AFRICAN STRUGGLES FOR DIGNITY AND FREEDOM

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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, 6. Letters & Opinions, 7. African Writers' Corner


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1 Features

AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY 2013
Reflecting on the past and planning to accelerate full unification of the peoples
Horace G. Campbell

While the heads of state busied themselves with neo-liberal discourses about 'poverty reduction and governance' at last week's AU Summit, the intellectuals, activists, artists and writers focused on acceleration of the full unification of the peoples of Africa and the need for concrete steps towards a government that can defend Africans at home and abroad
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87608
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AFRICA TODAY: REFLECTIONS ON RESILIENCE
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

The African humanity currently generates, overwhelmingly, the capital resource that at once sustains it and is exported to the Western world. The notion that Africans are in any way dependent on a European/Western world or any other overseas 'handout' is at best a myth, at worst an all-out lie
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87595
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CONTEXTUALIZING GENDER BASED VIOLENCE WITHIN PATRIARCHY IN NIGERIA
Nkiru Igbelina-Igbokwe

Gender based violence is entrenched in the strong patriarchal ideologies of control, subversion and subordination of women and girls. Efforts to resists this has mostly been undertaken at individual level. As a result, patriarchy continues to thrive
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87597
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WHAT IS IN A NAME?
Ethnology museum of Vienna becomes 'world museum'
Kwame Opoku

This latest development is consistent with a trend in the West to justify continued detention in Western museums of artefacts from Africa, Asia and Latin America. The artefacts, mostly acquired through violence, should have been returned to former colonies at independence
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87596
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2 Announcements

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTION OF ARTICLES TO PAMBAZUKA NEWS

Pambazuka News is planning a special issue on 'YOUTH IN AFRICA AND THE DIASPORA'

We would particularly like to receive articles from young people on this topic whether they are in organisations or not

As we reach an audience of approximately 26,000 subscribers weekly, we are calling on our readers and writers to submit articles for this special issue to cover any of the following themes (or a theme or issue of your choice):

• The problems and issues young people are facing in Africa and the Diaspora
• The role of youth in society
• Positive contributions of young people in society
• The future of youth in society and the world
• Youth organizations in Africa and the Diaspora – tell us what your organization is doing
• Any other topic/subject of your choice

ARTICLE LENGHT: Texts must be between 1000-3000 words

DEADLINE: is 13h June 2013 for submission

Your name and a two line bio must be submitted at the end of the article

Texts must be submitted to: editor@pambazuka.org<mailto:editor@pambazuka.org> or pambazukaeditor@gmail.com<mailto:pambazukaeditor@gmail.com>

THE EDITORS
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SPECIAL ISSUE ON BRAZIL IN AFRICA: CALL FOR ARTICLES

Pambazuka News is planning a special issue on 'BRAZIL IN AFRICA'

As we reach an audience of approximately 26,000 subscribers weekly, we are calling on our readers and writers to submit articles for this special issue to cover any of the following themes (or a theme or issue of your choice):
• The historical links between Brazil and Africa
• South-South geopolitical links between Africa and Brazil via BRICS
• Issues relating to gender, youth, multinationals, social justice, environmental issues, the media, cultural links (i.e. music, literature, the arts) between Brazil and Africa
• Ideas on how to advance greater links and understanding between Brazil and Africa

Texts must be submitted to: editor@pambazuka.org<mailto:editor@pambazuka.org> or pambazukaeditor@gmail.com<mailto:pambazukaeditor@gmail.com>

WORD LENGTH: Texts must be between 1000-3000 words

DEADLINE: is 30th June 2013 for submission

Your name and a two line bio must be submitted at the end of the article

THE EDITORS
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3 Comment & analysis

EXPOSING THE INVISIBLE: AFRICAN WOMEN AND THE OAU
Amira Ali

Though little acknowledged, one year prior to the founding of the OAU, Pan African Women's Organization was formed in 1962 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It could be said that PAWO was the building block, the impetus, for the establishment of the OAU
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87606
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DEFENDING MY WIFE
The other story of sexual violence in Somalia
Hala Alkarib

Muhildeen Shikh Mohamed is one of the few Somali men who stood up to defend his wife, Lul Ali Isman when she was gang raped by government security men. His story is among many of the hidden acts of sexual violence in Somalia in which more men need to stand up against this abuse against women
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87605
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IN AFRICA, WALTER RODNEY LIVES!
David Johnson

Many progressive people in Africa were genuinely outraged on learning that the late President Burnham of Guyana, who is believed to have killed the great black intellectual Walter Rodney, was set to be recognized by South Africa as a champion of African liberation. Thankfully the plan aborted
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87598
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WHY THE DA CAN NEVER HAVE STRUGGLE CREDENTIALS
Veli Mbele

The Democratic Alliance desperately needs struggle credentials because they realise that, in order to advance the agenda of white capital in South Africa, they need to legitimatise themselves in the eyes of backs by dressing in the regalia of the liberation struggle
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87601
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REJECT BARACK OBAMA'S PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY SNAKE-OIL!
Ajamu Nangwaya

United States President Barack Obama appears to never pass up an opportunity when addressing Afrikan Americans to shift the responsibility for their success to personal effort and not the removal of structural barriers that are connected to white supremacy, sexism and capitalist exploitation
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87602
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MADE IN BANGLADESH: PROFITING FROM POVERTY
Vikas Nath

The disastrous garment industry in Bangladesh is a perfect example of capitalist expansion to the Global South where labour is cheap and abundant. But such foreign investments, now highly sought by governments of poor countries, often mean deplorable conditions of work and high profits for the companies
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87607
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CIVIL SOCIETY PROTEST: NOTHING CRUDE ABOUT THE MODE
Haron M. Ndubi

The recent 'Occupy Parliament' protests in Kenya elicited negative comments from certain quarters on the use of pigs to equate the rapacity of pigs with that of parliamentarians seeking rapacious salary increases. A defense of the protesters and their means to protest and make their message heard is made
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87604
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BEING 'FREE'
L. Muthoni Wanyeki

Kenyans must defend the right to protest in all legitimate forms and those who used pigs in the recent Occupy Parliament demonstrations are free to do so, just as those who choose other means have the right to express their views
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87612
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THE ROLL-WITH-THE-WHOLE-DESIGN
Amira Ali

In all my years in the United States and there are a few cultural tendencies I still have not been able to get used to: bagels, children talking back or 'sassing' their parents, and public acts of defaming a parent or sibling
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87599
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CARROTS AND STICKS: FROM APPEASEMENT TO COERCIVE DIPLOMACY
Ending violent conflict in the Great Lakes Region of Africa
Theogene Rudasingwa

Genuine all inclusive, society-wide, regional, Africa-led strategies are necessary to resolve the crisis in the Great Lakes region rather than billions of dollars in aid as promised by the World Bank and UN leaders
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87611
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NIGERIA: GARLANDS FOR THE PRESIDENT
Abdulrazaq Magaji

The upsurge of support in the wake of declaring a state of emergency to combat insurgency opens a much-needed window for Nigeria's president, Goodluck Jonathan, to change tactics in administering the country
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87613
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THE SOUND OF FIRST CLASS
Amira Ali

No matter how vibrant the so-called modern world is and how much technological development exists, it is still be over-shadowed by the impoverished and neglected world within it
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87600
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GERMAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION AND AFRICA
Osita Ebiem

For the cultural initiative to accomplish its good intentions in Africa, it needs to take into cognizance in its plans the cultural and ethnic diversities as well as the size of Africa. The continent is too big and diverse to be treated as a mono-cultural entity
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87603
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4 Advocacy & campaigns
FREEDOM HOUSE CONDEMNS ARREST OF PEACEFUL PROTESTORS IN KENYA

The Kenyan government's decision to prosecute 17 peaceful protestors on the spurious charges of breach of peace and disturbance after a demonstration to oppose parliamentary salary increases is in direct violation of the constitutional right of all Kenyans to peacefully assemble and is a serious abuse of the court process
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/87615
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TAX JUSTICE IN KENYA
Help us reach our goal of 20,000 signatures

Kenya's poorest are about to be hit with a staggering 16% tax increase on basic goods, while large corporations enjoy huge tax breaks that only benefit the richest
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/87614
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THE CONTINUED STRUGGLE FOR EDUCATIONAL ACCESS BY THE AFRIKAN COMMUNITY
In solidarity with the Transitional Year Programme!
Network for Pan-Afrikan Solidarity (Toronto)

The University of Toronto's impositions on the TYP entail a blatant disregard for the struggles of the Afrikan community that founded TYP and all oppressed people who struggle(d) for TYP and continue to fight for access and equity in higher education
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/87616
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WOMEN RISING: POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN AFRICA COCUMENTARY LAUNCHED
FEMNET/UNDP

Addis Ababa, May 2013. FEMNET (African Women's Development and Communication Network) and UNDP (United Nations Development Program) launched Women Rising – a documentary on Political Leadership in Africa in Addis in the margins of the AU Summit and during the celebrations of Pan-Africanism and African Renaissance.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/87617
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5 Books & arts
'TODAY NA TODAY'
Biko Agozino sings from abroad in Naija creole
Emmanuel Boyinta

With the release of his latest poetry book, entitled 'Today na Today', an anthology of poems written in Naija langwej (pidgin English), a waning subsector of Nigerian literature gains a vent
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/87618
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'THE POST-COLONIAL STATE IN AFRICA'
Okello Oculi

Crawford Young succeeds brilliantly and seductively in inciting a yearning for "another history" of governance in Africa in the last 50 years
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/87619
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6 Letters & Opinions
THE SOMALI ARE NOT BORN PIRATES
K Vijayakumaran

The greed of the rich to propagate their interest at the cost of fellowmen in other countries is the root cause of piracy in the Indian Ocean. In a sense, piracy is good for conservation of tuna and other African resources
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/letters/87620
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7 African Writers' Corner
ACHEBE BURIED LIKE A HERO
Abdulrazaq Magaji

He survived many battles in his long and eventful life and, when he answered the final call, Chinua Achebe immensely earned the hero's burial accorded him by an appreciative citizenry
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/African_Writers/87621
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