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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 522: LIBYA: NEITHER US INVASION NOR GADDAFISM! The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Dakar World Social Forum 2011, 3. Comment & analysis, 4. Advocacy & campaigns, 5. Pan-African Postcard, 6. Books & arts, 7. African Writers’ Corner, 8. Highlights French edition, 9. Cartoons /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features OPPOSING GADDAFI’S MASSACRE AND FOREIGN INTERVENTION IN LIBYA Horace Campbell Unless Libyans themselves own the struggle against Gaddafi, opponents to his regime may find that even if he has been removed from power, ‘Gaddafism’ will continue – but this time propped up by the West, Horace Campbell warns. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/72004 ****** AN AFRICAN SOLUTION TO THE LIBYAN CRISIS? Dibussi Tande Bloggers across the continent are dissatisfied, dismayed and disappointed by the Africa Union’s handling of the crises in Libya and in Côte d'Ivoire, writes Dibussi Tande. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/71994 ****** CÔTE D’IVOIRE: FORCES BEHIND THE CRISIS AND WHAT’S AT STAKE Maurice Fahe As Côte d’Ivoire’s political deadlock continues, Maurice Fahe discusses the country’s geostrategic importance for the West, the long-term role of foreign multinationals in the country, the political implications of ‘Ivoirité’ and the differences between the current crisis and that of 2000. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/71954 ****** HAITI AND THE ENDLESS REVOLUTION Sokari Ekine Aristide’s return to Haiti, the West’s war on Gaddafi, AU intervention and protests in Senegal and Morroco are among the stories covered in this week’s round-up of African uprisings, compiled by Sokari Ekine. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/71989 ****** TRANSNATIONAL CAPITALISM OR COLLECTIVE IMPERIALISM? Samir Amin Responding to the work of scholars like William Carroll, Samir Amin considers the evolution and shape of globalised capitalism and the extent to which it might be termed ‘transnational’ or ‘collective imperialism’. He stresses: ‘Globalisation is an inappropriate term. Its popularity is commensurate with the violence of ideological aggression that has prohibited henceforth the utterance of “imperialism”.’ http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/71951 ****** SUCCESSFUL AFRICAN ALTERNATIVES TO CORPORATE ‘GREEN REVOLUTIONS’ Carol Thompson and Andrew Mushita In the face of the Rockefeller and Gates foundations-funded AGRA (Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa) lobby ‘to extend outdated 20th century industrial agriculture’ to the continent, Carol Thompson and Andrew Mushita look at alternative African approaches for improving agriculture that focus instead on farmers' rights and build upon local knowledge. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/71991 ****** SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, SCIENCE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE Audio interview with Pat Mooney Gacheke Gachihi As industrialised nations in the West look for technological fixes to climate change that enable them to carry on with ‘business as usual’, Gacheke Gachihi speaks to ETC Group's Pat Mooney ( http://bit.ly/g2sZ5S ) [mp3] about why it is so important for social movements in the South to participate in debate and decision-making around new technologies, such as geoengineering and synthetic biology. ‘They could be tremendously devastating... we don't know what the implications would be for Africa,’ Mooney notes, ‘This is a struggle that ordinary people need to know about.’ http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/71999 ****** WHO SAID BLACKNESS CANNOT BE SYNONYMOUS WITH EXCELLENCE? Veli Mbele ‘The best legacy that we can bequeath to our children and grandchildren [is a] legacy of pride in ourselves, and of excellence,’ asserts Veli Mbele. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/71949 ****** THE EGYPTIAN YOUTH UPRISING Jalil A. Muntaqim US political prisoner Jalil A. Muntaqim gives a statement of support for Egypt’s youth. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/71947 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Dakar World Social Forum 2011 ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE Anisha Gupta In early February of this year, thousands of people from around the globe gathered in the historic city of Dakar, Senegal for the 2011 World Social Forum. Grassroots activists, community leaders, indigenous people, students and leftist politicians came together to celebrate the peoples' movements that are creating a new world and discuss strategies for moving forward. Particularly in light of the then-emerging social movements in Tunisia and Egypt that have now spread across North Africa and the Middle East, the World Social Forum in Dakar represented the energy, hope and determination of the African continent to challenge the neoliberal paradigm and declare that 'another world is possible'. Captured here ( http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2098030&id=2103157&l=9fc158a362 ) are scenes from the opening March where President Evo Morales of Bolivia delivered a rousing opening statement to the people gathered and leaders from the African Social Forum council welcomed the marchers to Dakar. Dakar is of particular significance as one of the last African ports where slave ships stopped before crossing the Atlantic on their way to the Americas. Goree Island, with its door of no return through which millions of slaves passed during the transatlantic slave trade, is a reminder of that history. The World Social Forum is a symbol of the historic resistance to injustices that once took the form of slavery and today have many different faces. ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 3 Comment & analysis TELLING THE UNTOLD STORY Zimasa Lerumo Zimasa Lerumo tells the story of her experiences growing up in South Africa’s Eastern Cape. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/71944 ****** POVERTY AS ENTERTAINMENT: ENDING KIBERA'S SLUM TOURS Rasna Warah Kibera, Nairobi’s most notorious slum, is now the subject of a reality TV show. Rasna Warah slams the growing fashion of 'slum tourism'. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/71952 ****** THE TERROR OF ‘ISMS’ A primer on causing terror amongst the terrified Walasia Noor EL Shabazz Walasia Noor EL Shabazz catches a train - and gives some tips about how to innocuously frighten the racists. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/71964 ****** AFRICAN UNION: ‘ACCELERATING YOUTH DISEMPOWERMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE DICTATORSHIP’? Eyob Balcha In light of its dubious leadership and disingenuous soundings on the need for ‘youth empowerment’, Eyob Balcha has little patience with the African Union: ‘[F]or me the African Union is the most hypocrite institution that I’ve ever heard and seen.’ http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/71943 ****** CAN WE TRUST IN THE AFRICAN UNION? Phidelia Amey What Africa needs is ‘transformational leaders with vision, commitment and a resolve to make Africa a better place for its younger generation and generations yet unborn,’ writes Phidelia Amey. Can the African Union deliver? http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/71986 ****** IS THERE A MEANING FOR THE AFRICAN UNION? Antumi Toasije Antumi Toasije suggests the AU is preventing Pan-African unity. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/71950 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 4 Advocacy & campaigns HUMAN RIGHTS DAY MARCH ON DURBAN CITY HALL Abahlali baseMjondolo South African shack dwellers’ movement Abahlali baseMjondolo marched to Durban City Hall on 21 March to deliver the message to the local councillors that ‘they have corrupted this city for too long and that their time is up.’ Pictures from the march are available on the Abahlali website ( http://www.abahlali.org/node/7885 ) . Below is the statement Abahlali made. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/71987 ****** ON THE INVASION OF THE AFRICAN STATE OF LIBYA BY THE IMPERIALIST FORCES Afreeka in Unity As the West intervenes in the Libyan crisis, the Afreeka in Unity group demands ‘the immediate end of the imperialist invasion in the African country of Libya’. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/71959 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 5 Pan-African Postcard IS LAURENT GBAGBO ‘PULLING A KIBAKI’? H. Nanjala Nyabola Are there clear similarities between leaders’ behaviour in the aftermath of Kenya’s 2007–08 election and the current impasse in Côte d’Ivoire, asks H. Nanjala Nyabola. Is Laurent Gbagbo ‘pulling a Kibaki’? http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/panafrican/71922 ****** CONDOLENCES TO LIBYA Cameron Duodu The ‘people of Libya deserve all our sympathy – for having been obliged to endure the calamitous rule of a man, apparently destined to inflict so much suffering on them,’ writes Cameron Duodu. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/panafrican/71996 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 6 Books & arts FILM SCREENING: 'INSIDE THE REVOLUTION' AwaaZ Magazine AwaaZ Magazine invites you to a FREE screening of Venezulan documentary 'Inside the Revolution' on 4 April in Nairobi. Filmed in Caracas in November 2008, on the eve of the 10th anniversary of Hugo Chavez’s controversial presidency, this full-length documentary takes a journey into the heart of Venezuela’s revolution to listen to the voices of the people driving the process forward. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/72003 ****** THE LONDON VIA LAGOS FESTIVAL AT OVAL HOUSE THEATRE London via Lagos is a daring festival of new plays by British-Nigerian playwrights offering three radically different visions of the relationship between Nigeria and the UK. Over ten weeks, from London via Lagos brings to the London stage three innovative and contemporary plays; each with its own perspective spanning the political, the personal, and the domestic. All three dramas investigate today’s Britain and all reflect the vigour and passion of Nigeria. Oval House Theatre Tuesday 3 May – Sunday 10 July, 2011 http://www.ovalhouse.com ****** PANDORA’S BOX by Ade Solanke On holiday with her streetwise son in Lagos, a British-Nigerian mother is in turmoil. Should she leave her only child in a strict Lagos boarding school, or return him to the ‘battlefields’ of inner London…? A family spanning three generations and two continents meet together in Lagos for the first time in over thirty years. But the joy of reunion also unleashes long-suppressed truths. An exuberant mix of comedy, tragedy and family drama, Pandora’s Box reveals the heartbreak behind the choices every parent must make. Oval House Theatre Tuesday 3 – Sunday 22 May, 2011 http://www.ovalhouse.com ****** LONG WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE Review of Nelson Mandela's 'Conversations with Myself' Peter Wuteh Vakunta Peter Wuteh Vakunta reviews Nelson Mandela’s ‘Conversations with Myself’. He underlines that ‘Countless books have been written and will continue to be written about this memorable man, but this one towers above them all on account of the intimacies and intricacies it contains.’ http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/71938 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 7 African Writers’ Corner CRACKING FRAGILITY Billene Seyoum Woldeyes The blood it flowed Down an undetermined path Washing with it The expressions of a non-violent wrath The fire it blazed Over the body of Bouazizi, vegetables he was selling Igniting a flame Of global freedom story telling... http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/African_Writers/71953 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 8 Highlights French edition PAMBAZUKA NEWS 182: LE SÉNÉGAL AU CARREFOUR D'UNE ALTERNANCE EN SOUFFRANCE Sénégal : Un rêve peut-il mourir? ( http://pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/71875 ) Amy Niang Sénégal : La démocratie d’élite a prévalu sur les griefs d’une justice sociale ( http://pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/71874 ) Pascal Oudiane Haïti : Le retour de Jean-Bertrand Aristide ( http://pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/71873 ) Claude Ribbe Il faut accompagner l’Afrique dans sa quête de liberté ( http://pambazuka.org/fr/category/comment/71867 ) Robert Lecou La pauvreté en Afrique est une insulte à la dignité humaine ( http://pambazuka.org/fr/category/comment/71863 ) Michel Hunault La libéralisation des échanges peut être mortifère pour l’Afrique ( http://pambazuka.org/fr/category/comment/71868 ) Jean-Pierre Dufau La vision stratégique attendue de la France en Afrique ( http://pambazuka.org/fr/category/comment/71865 ) Jean-Marc Ayrault Les enjeux autour de l’Afrique de demain ( http://pambazuka.org/fr/category/comment/71858 ) M. Jean-Paul Bacquet Initier un rapport rapport d’égal à égal avec l'Afrique ( http://pambazuka.org/fr/category/comment/71861 ) Jean-Paul Lecoq Néo-impérialisme français, appropriation, pillage et prédation des richesses naturelles en Afrique ( http://pambazuka.org/fr/category/comment/71859 ) Yves Cochet Un déclin symbolique, politique et culturel de la France en Afrique ( http://pambazuka.org/fr/category/comment/71864 ) Jacques Remiller Rompre avec les pratiques de la Françafrique ( http://pambazuka.org/fr/category/comment/71866 ) François Asensi Trois directions pour agir en Afrique du Nord ( http://pambazuka.org/fr/category/comment/71862 ) Axel Poniatowski ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 9 Cartoons GADDAFI THE BOMB Gado Gaddafi on a mission... http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/cartoons/71955 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ Fahamu - Networks For Social Justice http://www.fahamu.org Pambazuka News is published by Fahamu Ltd. © Unless otherwise indicated, all materials published are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. 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