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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: edi...@pambazuka.org or pambazu...@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: edi...@pambazuka.org or pambazu...@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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