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South African political artist Senzeni Marasela uses art to examine her personal and collective memory. In this interview with the director of Deveron Arts, Claudia Zeiske, Marasela discusses her work on women’s self-perception and insecurities about their bodies and how these differ between women of colour and white women.
Women have insecurities about their [...]
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Haitian community activist Rea Dol talks about SOPUDEP the school she started in 2000, the struggles to keep it going and surviving the earthquake… without the help of the “Republic of NGO’s”. This is what happened to Rea and thousands of other Haitians who acted to help themselves. They knew that from [...]
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At 11am TODAY young Nigerians will march to the National Assembly in Abuja to say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH and DEMAND:
1) President Yar’Adua should resume, resign or be removed
2) The promise of 6000megawatts must be fulfilled
3) The 5-month fuel crisis needs to end now.
Nigerians: March, Blog, Tweet, Talk, Print the leaflet and put in [...]
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Via Heal Nigeria
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Senegalese film director and one of the founders of the Pan-African Film festival [FESPACO], Mahaman Johnson Traore, died last Monday.
Mark Coles talks to Keith Shire on the work of Johnson Traore, particularly his films which addressed “the politics of women’s position in their societies”. Listen to the interview below.
Via Bombastic Element
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Nigerian women dressed in Black marched in Abuja to protest the massacres taking place in Plateau State. The women demanded the removal of the military commander in charge of security, Maj-Gen. Saleh Maina. Once again the Nigerian military, who were supposed to be protecting the women and the villages, [...]
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Last week South African Arts & Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana walked out of the Innovative Women exhibition claiming photographs by gender activist Zanele Muholi and Nandipha Mntambo were pornographic. Whilst the Minister is entitled to her own opinion she must be mindful of her status as a minister of government and the [...]
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“White people embarrass me” – A personal reflection on racism and white privilege in Britain amongst the LGBTIQ community by Del LaGrace Volcano. The problem is not just white privilege – its refusing to acknowledge it when challenged.
White people embarrass me. Probably not quite as much as I embarrass myself but [...]
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A resident of Dogo Nahawa described to Human Rights Watch what happened:
Dogo is a farming village several kilometers from Jos. They came at around 3 a.m. to attack our village. When they arrived, they immediately started shooting, so many of us ran outside to see what happened. Then others attacked us with machetes, killing so [...]
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Africans living in Britain since at least 4th Century AD
Remains of a “high status woman” of African origin found in York in 1901. Question is why are we only learning about this now?
Her grave dates back to the second half of the 4th Century. She was buried with items including jet and elephant ivory bracelets, [...]
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Last Monday was International Women of Colour Day. Today is International Women’s Day. A month and a day ago was African Feminist Homophobia Day. Friday will mark Beijing +15 Day where hundreds of women will manage to spend 10 days talking about women but render Lesbians, [...]
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Ife Franklin is an African American artist and sculptor, who designs and dyes her own fabrics using the Nigerian Adire method. Below is a collage created for Black Pride New England in 2007 to reflect the beauty of a community that is “lovely, healthy and strong”. The second photo is [...]
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On Monday 01 March 2010 a delegation of activists AIDS service providers, Spiritual mentors and counsellors took centre stage in Kampala when they met the Speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of Uganda Rt. Hon. Edward Ssekandi Kiwanuka over the Anti-Homosexuality Bill and later held a press conference at the National Theatre. The group [...]
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Last weeks return to Nigeria of President Yar’Adua in the dead of night has created even more intrigue and political back stabbing than when he was away in Saudi Arabia. He is back but no one has seen him or at least if they have they are not telling the nation what they saw. I [...]
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On Monday, 1st March, a group of activists and civil society organisations in Uganda presented a petition signed by 450,000 people from across the world opposing the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. The Petition was presented to Edward Sekandi, the Ugandan Speaker of Parliament and called for Parliament to “enact laws that will protect people and not [...]
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As part of the Proudly African & Transgender exhibition by Gabrielle Le Roux, each person has written a short self-portrait on being transgender and on the exhibition itself. Below are their stories of their lives to go with the portraits drawn by artist and activist for social justice Gabrielle Le Roux.
The importance [...]
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On International Women of Colour Day I celebrate all the women of colour who consistently work towards social justice across the world. In particular I would like to honour the work of Haitian community activist and founder of SOPUDEP School, Réa Dol and ALL the Haitian women and girls who have self-organised in [...]
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Music from Camp Guatemala, Haiti
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Human Rights lawyer, Walter Riley speaks of about his experience of the earthquake and Haitian activist Pierre Labossiere explains that the emergency relief system put in place by President Aristide was destroyed after the 2004 US/France back coup and the trained volunteers jailed or kicked out of Haiti.
Haiti from New America Media on Vimeo.
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Frank Mugisha of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) explains how homophobia and the denial that MSM exist, plus criminalisation is preventing access to HIV/AIDs treatment.
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Portraits and narratives of ten transgendered Africans from seven countries in East and Southern Africa by Gabrielle Le Roux in partnership with IGLHRC exhibited for the first time by Amnesty International – Amsterdam.
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Portraits and narratives of ten transgendered Africans from seven countries in East and Southern Africa by Gabrielle Le Roux in partnership with IGLHRC exhibited for the first time by Amnesty International – Amsterdam.
Zimbabwe: Amanda
Uganda: Julius
South Africa: Bongi
Burundi: Flavia
Uganda: Victor Mukasa
Namibia: Madam Jholerina
Kenya: Marsha
Uganda: Salongo
Namibia: Silva
Botswana: Skipper Mogapi
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Excellent video spelling out the life and Death details of the Ugandan Bill presently under discussion. Please circulate.
Via Waking Up Now
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Shell, Chevron in the Niger Delta, Texaco/ Chevron in the Ecuadoran Amazon – both examples of militarisation of commerce and corporate theft and violence against communities. In 1993 the communities of Lago Agrio in Ecuador sued Chevron / Texaco for $27 billion [Aguinda v. Texaco] for environmental damage. Judgment on the case [...]
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Blacklondoners Appeal, a London based group are calling on all writers for contribution of short stories, poems and lyrics to a collection of works to be published in May 2010. The book, A Word for Haiti, will be part of BlackLondoners year long appeal to raise funds for Haiti.
BlackLondoners Appeal is about grassroots organizations and [...]
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Rainbow Uganda activist Andrew Waiswa just published this report by followers of “Evil Postor Ssempa” in Kampala – I think it is from this morning. Video of march on Facebook
“As i write now, there is a big demonstrating taking place in the main of Jinja town. I followed them from Kampala to cover every detail. [...]
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A month after the Haitian earthquake and still thousands are without water, food, medical care and shelter. The white washing by the media around the distribution of humanitarian aid continues the latest was a visit by Brangelina Jolie with an insipid interview and some whitewashed photo shots in tented hospitals – No she has not [...]
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700 members of Women and Men of Zimbabwe Arise – WOZA and MOZA marched through Harare with Valentine cards, roses and copies of the WOZA report on the state of democracy in Zimbabwe
In typical WOZA fashion, six protests started separately and converged on the offices of the Herald. The peaceful groups sang as they [...]
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Nigerian actress Hilda Dokubo has been nominated for best actress in this year’s Oscars for her portrayal of Queen Amina of Zaria. Ms Dokubo [pictured below with her close friends and sistas, the mischievious peace activists Sokari Ekine and Emem Okon] is the first Nigerian to be nominated for the Oscars.
On Tuesday, thousands of Nigerian [...]
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Rea Dol is grassroots community organiser and founder of SOPUDEP school in Port-au-Prince. Shortly after the earthquake they had to abandon the school which was being used as a shelter due to the stench of dead bodies and sturtural damage which made the building unsafe.
For the school to continue it will [...]
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I never heard of Henrietta Lacks until a few days ago. But I have heard of the Tuskeegee Experiment in which 399 Black men were used as clinical samples for studying the late stages of syphilis. The men who were poor sharecroppers from Alabama, where never told they had syphilis and [...]
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After intensive pressure from members of the National Assembly, the media, trade unions, political activists and the Nigerian people, President Yar’Adua has agreed to hand over the Presidency to his deputy, Goodluck Jonathan.
I think Fela would have loved this – the beginnings of “people power” in Nigeria – here Seun talks [...]
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Boa Sr, the last speaker of Bo’, “one of the ten Great Andamanese languages has died”. The death of Boa Sr and the language she spoke is the end of 65,000 years of linguistic heritage and culture.
It is estimated that a language dies every two weeks and by 2100 90% of languages of the [...]
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From Uganda, Gay Uganda reports on continuing police harassment and roundups of LGBT people – “knock on the door”
Desperate. Distraught.
Now, the knock early morning on the door.
We say we shall run. But, what if we cannot run? We have family, jobs, businesses. We are normal human beings. Common Ugandans. What of when we [...]
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From Uganda, Gay Uganda reports on continuing police harassment and roundups of LGBT people – “knock on the door”
Desperate. Distraught.
Now, the knock early morning on the door.
We say we shall run. But, what if we cannot run? We have family, jobs, businesses. We are normal human beings. Common Ugandans. What of when we [...]
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Nigeria soldiers shooting defenseless civilians Jos, Plateau State one year ago. Viewer Discretion is Advised – Sahara Reporters.
By late tomorrow dozens of Nigerian asylum seekers will be deported from the UK
Why do people flee Nigeria?
In its 2009 World Report, Human Rights Watch maintained that Nigerian state security forces “continued to commit extrajudicial [...]
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Nigeria soldiers shooting defenseless civilians Jos, Plateau State one year ago. Viewer Discretion is Advised – Sahara Reporters.
By late tomorrow dozens of Nigerian asylum seekers will be deported from the UK
Why do people flee Nigeria?
In its 2009 World Report, Human Rights Watch maintained that Nigerian state security forces “continued to commit extrajudicial [...]
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Victor Mukasa’s presentation to the UN on “Grave Human Rights Violations Against LGBT People in Africa”
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Governor General Michaëlle Jean, Canada
Via, Women and Beyond
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Governor General Michaëlle Jean, Canada
Via, Women and Beyond
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Governor General Michaëlle Jean, Canada
Via, Women and Beyond
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Interview with Pierre Labossiere of Haiti Action speaking on Haiti two weeks after the earthquake.
Pierre raises a number of very important points in relation to the relief itself, the many NGOs, organisations, groups and individuals that have descended on Haiti – aptly described as “social vampires”. He also speaks on the role of [...]
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Preview from PUMZI a Short film directed by Wanuri Kahui and showing at the Sundance Film Festival
The film started as a joke. A friend and I pondered the possibility of living in a place where we paid for air. We invented the city, the virtual natural museums, the people. That was over 2 years, [...]
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The process of delivering humanitarian aid and the behaviour of aid agencies are often as harmful as they are helpful as the last two weeks in Haiti has clearly shown. The militarisation of the whole process; the disorganised and incompetent delivery of food, water and medical supplies; the instant response [...]
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A beautiful and moving poem by Jamaican writer and poet, Geoffrey Philp.
Nothing makes sense anymore, my sister.
Nothing makes sense anymore, my sister.
The dead words in my mouth can’t say how I feel
And forgive me, Lord, but it hurts when I kneel.
For they say the age of miracles is over,
But when will the horrors end so [...]
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Via Africa is a Country
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I’m writing this post in response to number of articles on the prevalence of homophobia in Africa and to try and give some perspective and historical context. In the last six months we have seen the expression of homophobia with the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill; the arrest of gay Malawian couple, Tiwonge Chimbalanga [...]
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An important and thoughtful post from Haitian blogger, Ezili Danto who raises a number of serious questions around why the earthquake happened at this time – the first in 239 years.
In the Mining Haiti’s Riches interview, I recount how there were areas in Haiti hidden behind UN guns, fenced off where Haitians knew nothing about [...]
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The Palestine Think Tank [Haitham Sabbah, Yousef Abudayyeh, Mohamed Khodr, Mary Rizzo,] have published this excellent list of common errors made by activists / movements and how to rectify them. The errors and solution are applicable to movements and activists worldwide.
Activism and activists for Palestine have been getting some media attention recently. [...]
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Rebecca Zausmer presents a comprehensive roundup of commentary on Haiti in this weeks Pambazuka News.
Yet criticism of the US extends beyond their immediate control of the crisis. Commentators are asking why Haiti has been so badly affected. The devastation is being seen as partly natural disaster, but also manmade. The finger of blame [...]