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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 586: AFRICA LIBERATION DAY AND THE NEW SCRAMBLE FOR OUR LANDS The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. KEEP PAMBAZUKA FREE AND INDEPENDENT! BECOME A FRIEND OF PAMBAZUKA NOW! http://www.pambazuka.org/en/friends.php Follow Pambazuka @pambazuka Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Announcements, 3. Comment & analysis, 4. Advocacy & campaigns, 5. Books & arts /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features AFRICAN UNITY: REVISITING THE POPULAR UPRISINGS OF THE NORTH Awino Okech The most important question post-uprising is how to entrench a Pan-African agenda led by citizens that addresses the fundamental challenges hampering African unity. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82400 ****** TIME TO RECALL THE LAND GRABBERS An extract from 'The Great Food Robbery': Right Livelihood Award 2011 GRAIN's acceptance speech, 5 December 2011 People who just want to grow food and make a living from the land are being expelled, criminalised, and sometimes killed, to make way for land grabbers. It is nothing less than an assault on peasants. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82378 ****** THE GREAT FOOD ROBBERY TARGETS AFRICA Interview with Devlin Kuyek by Molly Kane Devlin Kuyek 'Who gets to eat and who doesn't is decided in a few rooms by boards of directors composed mainly of rich men. A handful of people in Northern countries deciding whether Africa is going to eat or not is insane.' http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82375 ****** GROUPS REJECT FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN AFRICAN FARMING This letter from African civil society critical of foreign investment in African Agriculture at G8 Summit was presented by Mamadou Cissokho, Honorary President of ROPPA, President Steering Committee CDP/CSO, on behalf of farmers who are members of the organizations listed below. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82382 ****** AFRICA MUST UNITE: BUT BEHIND WHOM? Kofi Ali Abdul Yekin With the 54 leaders of the African Union due to try again to elect a new Chairperson of the AU Commission in July, isn't it time the African had a say in the election, rather than the outcome being influenced by outside interests? http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82406 ****** THE DA/COSATU FRACAS: APPRECIATING THE MORAL HIGH GROUND Steven Friedman There is a sustained ideological assault on trade unionism in South Africa. But why should millions of unemployed people be expected to see trade unions as the cause of their problems when there are more obvious targets? http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82413 ****** THE PRESIDENT'S PENIS Gillian Schutte The piece of art reinforces the Eurocentric notion that it is okay to infer that the Black president is a rampantly savage sex fiend and publicly shame him in what is probably the most insulting manner a man in his culture can be affronted. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82381 ****** ANOTHER MISSIONARY IN AFRICA: THE BILL GATES MYTH Clairmont Chung Africa needs equality in trade and the exchange of technology, not myth-making charity. This scathing indictment tracks the predatory career of Bill Gates and paints his high-profile philanthropy as capitalist adventurism that further impoverishes the continent. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82410 ****** THE CAINE PRIZE AND LITERARY TENSIONS Sokari Ekine Accusations are flying about African writers and intellectuals telling lies about the continent to their Western audiences, thus confirming age-old racist stereotypes. There are claims of plagiarism as well. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82401 ****** PLOTTING FOR A SHARE OF THE OIL IN OBIANG'S GUINEA Agustin Velloso Follow super-secret agent 86 Maxwell Smart in Mission Equatorial Guinea http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82379 ****** ROARING FLAMES ON THE BIGHT OF BIAFRA Nnimmo Bassey Offshore oil and gas exploitation is accident-prone. Yet the response mechanisms of the oil companies as well as the government's regulatory agencies remain dismal in Nigeria. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82377 ****** ROADMAP FOR ENDING SOMALIA TRANSITION: AN OBVIOUS FOOL'S ERRAND Ahmed Ali M Khayre Somalia's Roadmap, including the proposed constitution, is anti-democratic and should be abandoned. It will probably produce another illegitimate, unworkable transitional entity and lead to further violence. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82403 ****** 'CLOSING THE DOORS OF LEARNING' (TO ISRAEL) OPENS THE DOORS OF FREEDOM Patrick Bond and Muhammed Desai The academic activists who have raised the stakes by educating South Africa about solidarity ethics will hopefully continue to 'terrorise' the Israeli apartheid regime. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82374 ****** SOME ODD RESPONSES TO OBAMA'S STATEMENT ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE Bill Fletcher Jr. The American president has opened up a discussion not just about same-sex marriage but about democracy and tolerance unlike anything we have had in years. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82380 ****** MY PERSPECTIVE ON THE ON-GOING PREPARATIONS FOR A NATIONAL LAND AUDIT A discussion paper in the Zimbabwe Land Series by Sokwanele Mandivamba Rukuni The land issue is still very much politically sensitive. But now there is greater pressure to rehabilitate the land for productivity, investment and economic recovery than just fulfil a political process. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82411 ****** 'THE REAL ENEMY IS HUMANITY ITSELF' Ben Pile At Rio+20 next month, the world's elites will meet in Brazil with the aim of holding back human progress. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82402 ****** WHY CHARLES TAYLOR DESERVES 80 YEARS IN PRISON Lansana Gberie As Charles Taylor awaits sentencing for his conviction for war crimes and crimes against humanity, Lansana Gberie responds to Taylor's attempt to defend his actions in Sierra Leone. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82412 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Announcements CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF THOMAS SANKARA Revival of Pan-Africanism Forum presents: Celebrating the Life of Thomas Sankara with a roundtable discussion on Revolution and Counterrevolution in Africa The 25th anniversary of the assassination of Thomas Sankara provides a moment for reflection upon Sankara's life and his contributions to PanAfrican thought and the relevance of his thinking to the uprisings currently in North Africa and beyond. Speakers include: Patricia Daley, Lecturer in Geography at Jesus College, University of Oxford Jeremy Keenan, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, London School of Oriental and African Studies Gnaka Lagoke, Founder, The Revival of PanAfricanism Forum Firoze Manji, Editor in Chief, Pambazuka News Carina Ray, Department of History, Fordham University Date: 8 June, 2012 Time: 2.30pm - 6.30pm Location: Habakkuk Room, Jesus College For more information, please contact Joseph Kangah [email protected] Amber Murrey [email protected] or visit us at http://www.revivalofpanafricanism.org ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 3 Comment & analysis UNITARY LABOUR AND THE REST OF US: DOCTORS AND THE POOR IN LAGOS STATE Fidelis Allen What the national executive body of the doctors need to know is the need to constructively explore all available options for resolving the conflict in Lagos State. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/82405 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 4 Advocacy & campaigns CIA RENDITION DATABASE RELEASED Press release New collection of rendition data brings together records of over 1100 victims and shows involvement of 45 countries http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/82376 ****** GUINEA BISSAU NGOS JOINT STATEMENT On the impact of the April 12 coup d'etat on vulnerable communities http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/82386 ****** OUR REPUDIATION OF WITS UNIVERSITY'S MANAGEMENT'S RESPONSE TO OUR MEMORANDUM About 40 students at Wits University in Johannesburg have gone on an indefinite hunger strike to protest the unfair dismissal of 17 female workers. They were joined by 2,000 students who boycotted the canteen staffed by outsourced workers from the offending company. This is part of a larger campaign to fight the externalisation and casualisation of labour at Wits, and in South Africa generally. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/82385 ****** SAHRAWI GOVERNMENT CONDEMNS MORROCAN DECISION ON UN ENVOY Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Ministry of Information Press release http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/82384 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 5 Books & arts THE "YES" AND "NO" OF FEMALE SEXUALITIES Ng'ang'a wa Muchiri Blaming victims of rape largely misses the mark: when does the onus begin to fall on those who carry out the crime, instead of it perpetually falling on those who have been assaulted? http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/82404 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ Fahamu - Networks For Social Justice http://www.fahamu.org Pambazuka News is published by Fahamu Ltd. 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