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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 568: RUPTURES AND CHANGES IN 2012 The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Advocacy & campaigns, 3. Books & arts /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features AFRICAN WORLD VIEW ON REVOLUTIONARY RUPTURES AND PACE OF CHANGE IN 2012 'Egypt's popular revolution will change the world' Horace Campbell Progressives must brace for intensified struggles in 2012 because people in all continents are seeking alternatives beyond neo-liberal domination. The current European struggles will sharpen the struggles in Latin America and Africa. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/79610 ****** PRESIDENT WADE VS. THE PEOPLE: SENEGAL IS IN DANGER Arame Tall The deadly violence that has broken out in Senegal seems surreal even to the most seasoned analysts of the West African nation's political evolution. Angry Senegalese believe President Wade has executed a coup to stay in power. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/79608 ****** ANGOLA: CNN ACCEPTS ADS FROM CORRUPT REGIME Rafael Marques de Morais The company contracted to market Angola overseas is owned by the president's children. While two-thirds of the population survives on less than $2 a day, the president and his proteges plunder the country. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/79587 ****** ANGOLA: PUBLIC OFFICIAL GOES SHOPPING WITH STATE MONEY Rafael Marques de Morais The new hypermarket is one of many businesses belonging to a fast-growing empire owned by senior public officials, which over the last three years has become the biggest player in the national economy. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/79588 ****** DRC: WHAT NEXT AFTER CORRUPTION OF TRUTH AND JUSTICE? Jacques Depelchin As in other parts of the world, there are signs of revolt of ordinary people against many decades of oppression and dispossession. The dictators leave, but the system which bore them remains. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/79580 ****** DEBATE: CRITIQUING THE CRITIQUE ON CHINA IN ZAMBIA Human Rights Watch and labour abuses in Chinese state-owned copper mines In December, Pambazuka News carried an article ( http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/78660 ) that critiqued a Human Rights Watch report ( http://www.hrw.org/reports/2011/11/03/you-ll-be-fired-if-you-refuse ) that had exposed labour abuses in Chinese state-owned copper mines in Zambia. Here, Human Rights Watch responds to that critique. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/79570 ****** DEBATE: THE WRONG ANSWERS TO THE WRONG QUESTION A response to HRW Barry Sautman, Yan Hairong In responding to a critique ( http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/78660 ) of their Human Rights Watch report, the authors make basic mistakes by ignoring key structural conditions, keeping alive racist myths about Chinese cruelty that prevent 'a focused effort on the actual causes of the grave human rights problems that exist in mining on the continent', argue the authors of the original critique. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/79602 ****** BEYOND ICC AND KENYA'S DIVISIVE POLITICS Uche Igwe Time has come for politics of accountability and inclusion. The country's top leaders need to move away from their ethnic enclaves and promote reconciliation and healing as Kenya heads to the next election. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/79589 ****** TIME TO FOCUS ON POST-ELECTION VIOLENCE VICTIMS Rasna Warah What should concern Kenya is not the political and personal fate of the suspects whose charges have been confirmed by the International criminal Court, but the lives of the thousands of victims who are still nursing their wounds four years later. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/79586 ****** THE NEW LANDLESSNESS AND THE LESSONS OF BIAFRA Abena Ampofoa Asare Unlike the Biafra experience, indigenous peoples confronting land dispossession are looking beyond the nation-state for justice. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/79569 ****** WHAT WESTERNERS DON'T UNDERSTAND ABOUT MODERN ECONOMY Jean-Paul Pougala Why is the Chinese economy thriving while that of the West is in crisis? The answer is of great relevance to Africans who have for decades embraced development models created in the boardrooms of Western capitals. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/79578 ****** WE BLACKS ARE FAILING OUR OWN PEOPLE Veli Mbele In just under two decades of liberation, South Africa is now gripped by the deadly politics of character assassination, rapacious self-enrichment and factionalism. The ideals of the anti-apartheid struggle have been lost in public life. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/79581 ****** IN DEFENCE OF THE NEW AU HEADQUARTERS Okello Oculi How genuine is the anger that has been expressed in some quarters about Africa accepting a gift of the new African Union headquarters from China? There are so many other issues of urgent concern around the continent that the critics should direct their wrath to as well. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/79583 ****** NEW AU HEADQUARTERS: A TRIBUTE TO CHINA-AFRICA RELATIONS A response to Chika Ezeanya Antoine Roger Lokongo Which other friend of Africa would be willing to fund, design, build and maintain a new $200 million AU headquarters in the middle of a global financial crisis? http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/79584 ****** LGBT: DAVID KATO AWARD GOES TO JAMAICAN ACTIVIST Maurice Tomlinson The winner, who fled Jamaica a year ago following homophobic death threats, vows to continue with the struggle for LGBT rights in honour of the the fallen Ugandan activist. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/79585 ****** ETHIOPIA: CONCERNS ABOUT GIBE 3 DAM David Turton There is a powerful economic argument for Gibe 3 Dam. But there are also powerful arguments for ensuring that large-scale river-basin development projects provide genuine and sustainable development opportunities for the affected people. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/79590 ****** WE ARE BUILDING A NEW WAY OF ORGANISING Jared Sacks 'While as a young movement we try to build radically new forms of direct democracy within by challenging the old guard, we will also be able to strengthen accountability and the authority of the decisions we make as a collective.' http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/79606 ****** SOUTH AFRICA: CHARGES AGAINST PROTESTERS WITHDRAWN Benjamin Fogel 'While supporters of the protest argued that their meeting posed no threat to public safety, the city had declared the movement a threat.' http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/79582 ****** KENYA: BUNGE LA MWANANCHI MOVEMENT AND ITS CHALLENGES Julius Okoth Although it remains one of the best known pro-poor social movements in Kenya, Bunge la Mwananchi faces serious internal challenges that hamper its effectiveness in mounting collective action. The problems need urgent attention. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/79603 ****** LIBYA AND SYRIA: LIZZIE PHELAN ON HER REPORTING Lizzie Phelan 'I have been accused by some of being a mouthpiece for the [former] Libyan government but now the truth is coming out. We know that the essence of the former Libyan government's analysis has been proved correct.' http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/79604 ****** SOMALILAND AND THE LONDON CONFERENCE ON SOMALIA Ahmed M.I. Egal Listening to Somaliland - and deploying some of its methods in achieving stability - is crucial to addressing the crisis in Somalia. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/79567 ****** WILL NEOLIBERALISM MAKE A COMEBACK IN AFRICA VIA TUNISIA? Patrick Bond and Khadija Sharife IMF held up Tunisia under Ben Ali as a model, yet ordinary people fed up with his excesses overthrew the regime. Now IMF appears to be courting the new leadership. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/79625 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Advocacy & campaigns ANNOUNCEMENT: TRANSITIONING AFRICA The main focus of this new entity is to support a growing transgender and intersex movement and to engage regionally in advocacy for the human rights of transgender and intersex people. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/79627 ****** ETHIOPIA: DEATH PENALTY FOR BLOGGER, PRISON FOR JOURNALISTS A US-based journalist convicted on politicised terrorism charges in Ethiopia was sentenced to death in absentia recently, while two other Ethiopian journalists received heavy prison sentences in connection with their coverage of banned opposition groups, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned the sentences. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/79572 ****** RECENT STRIPPING OF WOMEN IN MALAWI CONDEMNED Statement by the Solidarity of African Women's Rights (SOAWR) Coalition 'The 39 members of the Solidarity for African Women's Rights Coalition based in 18 African countries vehemently condemn the stripping of women wearing trousers and short skirts by male vendors in three major cities in Malawi, namely Lilongwe, Mzuzu and Blantyre.' http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/79605 ****** STATEMENT ON THE GOVERNMENT'S PLAN TO RELOCATE REFUGEES BACK TO SOMALIA The Refugee Consortium of Kenya The Kenyan government plans to move hundreds of thousands of refugees to Somalia, a plan condemned by the The Refugee Consortium of Kenya. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/79571 ****** STATEMENT TO THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PROVINCES HEARING ON THE SECRECY BILL Unemployed People's Movement 'As the Unemployed People's Movement we reject all provisions in this bill which will hinder the free flow of information.' http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/79609 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 3 Books & arts 'THE HELP' DISREGARDS AGENCY OF BLACK WOMEN Liepollo Pheko The major weakness of a new film is that it removes the agency, courage and brilliance of black women. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/79568 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ Fahamu - Networks For Social Justice http://www.fahamu.org Pambazuka News is published by Fahamu Ltd. 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