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A baby boy had both legs broken by supporters of President Robert Mugabe to punish his father for being an opposition councillor in Zimbabwe. Blessing Mabhena, aged 11 months, was seized from a bed and flung down with force as his mother, Agnes, hid from the thugs, convinced that they were about to murder her.
[timesonline.co.uk]
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Changeseeker, of Why Am I Not Surprised, says, “Yesterday, surfing the web for the first time since I moved last week, I decided to stalk my favorite website builder’s work and came across a call for applications for the Focus Features Africa First Short Film Program. The application period opened May 12th and closes July [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Speaking of Africa", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/speaking_of_africa.html" });
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Unable to move, she watch them drag him
from the house into a donga
and beat him, one goon opening his body
to pour blood into the off-colour ditch,
like wine seeking the whiteness of cloth
that cover the brains of boys
and redden their eyes with joy.
Everyone try not to look
but go their way into the dim June dusk
to their [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "For Charity and Francis Matyaka", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/for_matyaka_by_rethabile.html" });
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Excitement gripped me when I was able to go back across the border to visit my family in Zimbabwe. Pleased as I was, I tried to ignore all the media reports on the country’s disregard of acceptable and proper treatment of human beings. Before going home, I braced myself for whatever the hell was to [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Country That Never Was......Zimbabwe, ……………..wait before you……………….!", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/the_country_that_never_waszimbabwe_wait_before_you.html" });
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news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe (Obama speaks out):
US presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Wednesday the international community must do more to try to help resolve Zimbabwe’s political crisis, and to put pressure on Robert Mugabe, who is clinging to power. He singled out South Africa as one country that needs to apply more pressure on Mugabe, 84, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "End-of-June Zimbabwe links", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/end-of-june_zimbabwe_links.html" });
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Photos from “Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta
The lure of oil is its cheapness. What we mean is that oil is a cheap source of energy. It is cheap partly because oil’s costs of extraction—in the Niger Delta and much of the tropical world—are not reflected in the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Niger Delta: 50 years of oil", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/niger_delta_50_years_of_oil.html" });
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100 years of Namibian diamonds -
Although Namibia accounts for just over 1% of the annual world diamond output - about 160-million carats — the high percentage of high-quality gems has made Namibian diamonds among the world’s most sought after.
(tags: leviev blooddiamonds namibia)
UNICEF shuns Leviev money
(tags: leviev blooddiamonds angola namibia palestine)
Jews sans frontieres: UNICEF to [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2008-06-25", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/links_for_2008-06-25.html" });
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The breakaway Anglican Church, Global Anglican Future Conference (Gafcon) has banned eight Anglican Church activists including Nigerian gay activist, Davis MacIyalla of Changing Attitude Nigeria. Gafcon which includes a large number of preachers of intolerance and un Jesus like individuals such as Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria, Archbishop Henry Orombi of Uganda and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Jesus loves me, the bible tells me so............ but the bishops tell me no", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/jesus_loves_me_the_bible_tells_me_so_but_the_bishops_tell_me_no.html" });
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Kenya: Citizen Media in a time of crisis
(tags: kenya citizen media elections web2.0 blogging)
History Matters
Promoting citizenship and democracy in South Africa
(tags: blogging citizenship democracy southafrica)
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In an outrageous statement against LGBTs and asylum seekers, UK’s Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith claims gay and lesbian asylum seekers can be deported to Iran (and other countries such as Nigeria, Uganda and Cameroon) safely as long as they are “discreet”.
In a letter to a Liberal Democrat peer, seen by The Independent, Ms Smith [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Forget about being executed just be descreet!", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/forget_about_being_executed_just_be_descreet.html" });
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Neocosmos: The Politics of Fear and the Fear of Politics (Essay on the pogroms) | Abahlali baseMjondolo
(tags: southafrica apartheid xenophobia)
Leviev :Striking workers suspended in Namibia
Leviev has a diamond polishing plant in Namibia, which recently has been making news over labor strife:
(tags: Leviev blooddiamonds diamonds namibia)
UK tops world table of weapons sales
Britain won a dubious new [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2008-06-23", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/links_for_2008-06-23.html" });
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The awful reality of the violence against opposition leaders and supporters in Zimbabwe is made visual and very real by Sokwanele’s June map of terror.
Via White African
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SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mapping terror in Zimbabwe", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/mapping_terror_in_zimbabwe.html" });
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An Angolan gay couple get married in the midst of hypocrisy walking in the night……….
Angolan couple, Bruna and Chano paid a high price for making their homosexual relationship public.
The two young men met when they were both living in the Luanda neighbourhood of Bês. After seeing each other for three and a half years, they [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "An Angolan wedding - ", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/an_angolan_wedding_-_.html" });
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This essay was written by a friend of mine, Richard Pithouse, in response to the xenophobic violence in South Africa. The essay is particularly interesting as Richard identifies links between the role of the state in the violence, post apartheid oppression, land rights and the state’s disdain and attacks on [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "On the Pogroms in South Africa", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/on_the_pogroms_in_south_africa.html" });
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مرداد
[ to اردیبهشت ]
The face of your father comes
through flung windows into the bedroom
of this sweltering August. In a bid
to keep us from needing the dead,
he floats toward the bed where the four of us
are golliwogs sprawled in heat.
I indulge in the visionmy father-in-law
holding my hand the night of his visit.
Overcome by decayed [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/1979.html" });
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The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement - Two Sean Bell Video Tributes
(tags: murder usa racism newyork)
Autonomous London
portal to various radical social centres and autonomous spaces in London. New spaces come and go in a seemingly constant cycle of occupations and eviction.
(tags: london radical socialchange activist)
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Pote Mak Sonje (Whoever Bears the Scar Remembers) : The Raboteau Trial explores how a community mobilized against formidable obstacles-a long history of impunity, corruption, lack of infrastructure, extreme poverty, and illiteracy-to bring about the best criminal prosecution ever in Haiti, and one of the most significant human rights trials in the Western hemisphere in [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Half hour for Haiti", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/half_hour_for_haiti-4.html" });
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An exceptionally long rant about Nigerian 419ers and Ghanaian politicians - not sure of the connection except they sound very much like Nigerian politicians…
We can never move forward as a people, if we don’t end the culture of indiscipline and impunity that pervades our nation from the very top to the lowest rungs of the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Collective indiscipline in Ghana", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/collective_indiscipline_in_ghana.html" });
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Rethabile introduced me to Geoffrey Philp a couple of months ago - now I visit his blog all the time. This poem he wrote reminds me of the conversation a few weeks ago here on Black Looks on xenophobia, belonging and the words not to call people
Red by Geoffrey Philp
It burst from those lips [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Learning to love "Red"", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/learning_to_love_red.html" });
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The Chinese in South Africa have won their case to be designated “Black” showing us how arbitrary racial categories are. Lucky them, under apartheid they were able to take advantage of not being “Black” (they were coloured” - slightly up in the racial chain) and now they can take advantage of being “Black” and go [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "switching race and other pessimisms", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/switching_race_and_other_pessimisms.html" });
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Digital Humanities: Timbuktu Project
A project to electronically digitize ancient manuscripts and books from Timbuktu
(tags: africa history digital)
Forgotten Kenyan conflict exposed
(tags: kenya conflict)
What is the Bulungula Incubator? « The Bulungula Incubator
(tags: ngo poverty projects southafrica tourism development)
Afrigadget.com - 50 Best Websites 2008 - TIME
(tags: web2.0 africa technology)
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Danny Glover speaking at LA vigil calling for the safe return of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine
Please sign the petition
Weekly Vigil in London every Wednesday 5-6pm outside the Brazilian Embassy
Links: Lovinsky Pierre Antoine (blog under construction)
Global Women’s Strike - Lovinsky
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Lovinsky Pierre Antoine
Brazil
UN + MINUSTAH
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On June 17th & 18th the EU will vote on the proposed anti-immigration legislation”Returns Directive” which will enable member states to:
Detain and deport migrants including vulnerable people, unaccompanied minors (under 18 years of age) and pregnant women.
Expel unaccompanied minors and other migrants to a country where they have neither family nor legal support.
Ban an expelled [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: ""Returns Directive" immigration policy with the lowest common denominator ", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/returns_directive_immigration_policy_with_the_lowest_common_denominator_.html" });
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15 year old Eritrean Arsema Dawit was murdered in London on June 2nd 2008.
Via Africa Rise
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THE STONES OF MOHOKARE
We picked flint for its flatness
and curled thumb and forefinger round it,
then bent at the waist to almost touch
the yellow carpet of shoeshoe blossom
covering most of the moist turf with colouring,
and flicked from the wrist. The trick was
to send the stone flying on the water’s surface
at some angle from nought to forty-five,
like [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Two Poems ", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/two_poems_.html" });
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I am sure my title will incite a lot of reactions/comments..But I thought this is something good to share with the group. I came across this quotation while reading Creating GI Jane: Sexuality and Power in the Women’s Army Corp during WWII, where the author, Leisa D. Meyer cites two male soldiers’ perceived behavior of [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "On 'indecent women sexual behavior'", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/on_indecent_women_sexual_behavior.html" });
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It seems it is so easy to move from name calling to drawing a gun and shooting someone simply because they are different, different sexualities, different nationalities, different races. The murder of Daisy Dube is under investigation but like so many previous murders, rapes and acts of violence, the perpetrators remain free sometimes even [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: ""Shoot lezitabane" Drag Queen, Daisy Dube", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/shoot_lezitabane_drag_queen_daisy_dube.html" });
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The sms’s came fast and furious. As furious as the fiery images we were subjected to by our television and our daily newspapers. The front pages are a festival of beastly pictures of the victims of the negrophobic bloodletting which has gripped South Africa in the past weeks. I dreaded opening a newspaper for days [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "We are not all like that: the monster bares its fangs ", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/we_are_not_all_like_that_the_monster_bares_its_fangs_.html" });
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This is my second and sadly the final edition of what has been an excellent series of posts and debates on HIV/AIDS. Ron Hudson who started the ICP has decided to end the Carnivals….
It is with relief and sadness that I have decided to allow the International Carnival of Pozitivities to come to an [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "International Carnival of Positives - Final Edition", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/international_carnival_of_positives_-_final_edition.html" });
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El Oso Words Without Borders
Review of Words Without Borders book publication
(tags: literature online)
Paradigm Initiative Nigeria :Youth-led Social Technopreneurship and ICT Capacity Building.
PIN provides five key services: Consulting, ICT Capacity Building, Research, Telecentre Support and Youth-led Social Technopreneurship. Through these services, PIN connects individuals, people-groups, institutions and communities with the socio-economic o
(tags: nigeria icts development)
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:: The HSRC (The Human Sciences Research Council) of South Africa is a South African based research agency and open access publisher. With the stated purpose of “support[ing] the social science research community through a strong commitment to ‘opening access to quality social science in Africa” has free PDF downloads of some of their [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Freebies", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/freebies.html" });
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One of the three Ugandan LGBTI activists who was arrested at the
HIV/AIDS Implementers’ Meeting in Kampala on the 4th of June 2008, was
re-arrested and held for an additional four and a half hours today.
In response to demands for his release from his lawyer, the
Chairperson of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), and UNAIDS, Usaam
Mukwaaya was released this [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "LGBT activist released and re-arrrested", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/lgbt_activist_released_and_re-arrrested.html" });
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cross posted @ kameelahwrites.
The 21-st century pencil test
As attacks on foreigners intensified and spread across Johannesburg, mobs began pulling people out of shopping queues and forcing them to take “tests” to establish their nationality.
In a practice that recalls the humiliating “tests” used by apartheid officials to classify coloureds as white or black, reports came in [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2008-06-08", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/links_for_2008-06-08.html" });
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A micro view of xenophobic violence from a township in durban
To convey the reasons and effects of xenophobia in South Africa and its effect on the working class,
(tags: xenophobia southafrica violence)
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Three Ugandan LGBT activists have been arrested in Uganda whilst attending the HIV/AIDS Implementers Conference in Kampala. The LGBT and HIV / AIDS activists were protesting against comments made by the head of the Ugandan AIDS Commission that no funds would be given to AIDS programmes working with men who have sex with [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ugandan LGBT activists arrested", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/1959.html" });
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Risking it All to Find Safety by Kai Wright
On the margines of Queer America - being young Black and gay on the wrong side of town
(tags: LGBT usa africanamerican)
Rights Groups Fear for Gays in West Africa
(tags: LGBT africa humanrights)
Roundtable on g8 Resistance:
Perspectives for the Next Phase of Global Anti-Capitalist Uprisings
(tags: capitalism globalisation g8)
Naomi Klein [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2008-06-05", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/links_for_2008-06-05.html" });
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This article “The Great Immigration Panic” is set in the US but in many ways speaks to the whole issue of immigration across the world including Europe and South Africa………..
Immigrants in detention languish without lawyers and decent medical care even when they are mortally ill. Lawmakers are struggling to impose standards and oversight on a [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: ""illegality is not an identity; it is a status that can be mended"", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/illegality_is_not_an_identity_it_is_a_status_that_can_be_mended.html" });
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“Lesotho cannot wait for the UN food summit in Rome to come up with ideas, so it has developed some of its own. Mahaha Mphou does not know much about global economics, but she does know how to grow vegetables. She and the rest of her family of 10 have become some of the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "What's a keyhole garden?", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/whats_a_keyhole_garden.html" });
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Perils of lies will await you on the roadside, watch your front and back, turn sideways and round in a circle. Look to the sky, this is the home of ancestors with their eyes of ten thousand splendid suns watching over you.
Beware of “enemies” in the shape of “friends”, you [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The road to happiness is long - could be thousands of miles, if you persevere you may get there, BUT", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/the_road_to_happiness_is_long_-_could_be_thousands_of_miles_if_you_persevere_you_may_get_there_but.html" });
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This Monday, 2nd June, 2008 the Director General of Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC), was widely quoted by international media saying “Gays are one of the drivers of HIV in Uganda, but because of meagre resources we cannot direct our programmes at them at this time,”
We would like to point out:
* 26 years since the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: " Ugandan homosexuals respond to inflammatory remarks by Ugandan Aids Commission", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/_ugandan_homosexuals_respond_to_inflammatory_remarks_by_the_director_general_of_the_ugandan_aids_commission.html" });
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This statement from the Western Cape Anti-Eviction campaign links the regular evictions of it’s members with those of refugees who have been “evicted by violence” form their homes over the past few weeks. The link is important in understanding the role of the government in fueling the flames of xenophobia by police attacks against [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Anti-Afrophobia", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/anti-afrophobia.html" });