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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 589: SQUEEZING AFRICA DRY 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. Comment & analysis, 3. Advocacy & campaigns, 4. Books & arts, 5. African Writers’ Corner, 6. Cartoons /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features SQUEEZING AFRICA DRY: BEHIND EVERY LAND GRAB IS A WATER GRAB GRAIN Hidden beneath today’s global scramble for farmland is a growing scramble for control over water. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82903 ****** NATO IN LIBYA: WHEN PROTECTOR TURNED KILLER Vijay Prashad NATO has consistently blocked any attempt to scrutinise the war crimes it committed during the ‘humanitarian intervention' in Libya. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82895 ****** ZIMBABWE: POLITICAL PARALYSIS OF COALITION GOVERNMENT STALLS NATION Mary Ndlovu Zimbabwe’s transition to a new democratic government remains a difficult challenge, given the current regime’s culture of corruption and military intransigence. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82894 ****** COMPLICIT NEIGHBOURS: RWANDA, UGANDA AND EAST DRC Antoine Roger Lokongo The troika of Rwanda, Uganda and the international community continue to get away with destablising the east of the DRC. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82928 ****** ASSESSING THE POLITICAL OPPOSITION IN DR CONGO Abbot José Mpundu If the Congolese political opposition wants to be efficient and reach a convincing outcome in terms of bringing about change in the country, it must first unite around a common vision. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82946 ****** WHAT CHINA’S DIRECT COMPUTER LINK TO US TREASURY MEANS Horace Campbell The fact that China has been given a terminal to buy US debt directly, bypassing Wall Street, must be viewed in the context of the "architecture" of global capitalism which is a product of recent decades of the rise of financial-driven capitalist globalization. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82947 ****** THE NEXT PHASE OF BOKO HARAM TERRORISM Wole Soyinka Boko Haram is completely political. But with the toxic element of religion infused into it, it gives them the leg to ally with international terrorist bodies based on religion, who are only too happy to be of assistance. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82899 ****** CONGRATULATIONS NIGERIA: YOUR WAR BOAT HAS ARRIVED Fidelis Allen Nigeria has a war boat, but it raises numerous questions in the minds of the inquisitive. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82934 ****** NEW FILM SOWS SEEDS OF FREEDOM African farming voices challenge the GM myth Teresa Anderson At the heart of the film “Seeds of Freedom” is the story of seed and its transformation from the basis of farming communities’ agriculture to the property of agri-business. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82940 ****** WOMEN AND PROPERTY: SOME INSIGHTS FROM AFRICAN HISTORY Ng’ng’a wa Muchiri Although the overarching view that Africa is a hyper-masculine society with no social space for women persists, numerous examples show how resilient and innovative women reacted when faced with patriarchal hegemony. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82930 ****** FORTY YEARS OF ‘HOW EUROPE UNDERDEVELOPED AFRICA’ Nigel Westmaas Walter Rodney’s seminal work remains a compelling and persuasive living history and totem of critical resistance to the exploitation and underdevelopment of the African continent. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82937 ****** MALAWI: RIGHT DECISIONS, WRONG REASONS? Sokari Ekine President Banda’s recent decisions seem honourable and pragmatic. But we should be concerned in the way Western aid is being used to keep Malawi under donor colonization. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82938 ****** THE TURNING POINT FOR INTERNET FREEDOM Jane Duncan Media freedom in South Africa has been receiving bad press recently, although most of the attention has focused on threats to print and broadcasting freedom. Little attention has been paid to creeping censorship of the supposedly most democratic medium of all, namely the Internet. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82907 ****** MALAWIAN SEX WORKERS FIGHT FORCED HIV TESTING Chi Mgbako Forced HIV testing of sex workers violates their rights to privacy and dignity, can lead to stigma, discrimination and violence, and produces bad public health outcomes. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82936 ****** HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE GREAT AFRICAN IDENTITY HEIST Aubrey Masango ‘It is not too long ago that being African was ignorantly believed to be an aberration, an abnormality, in much the same way that some Africans are choosing to label African homosexuality an aberration today.’ http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82896 ****** WESTERN SAHARA : REALPOLITIK TO THE RESCUE OF COLONIZATION? Malainin Lakhal Is it possible to cure cancer with aspirin? Can we do justice in a murder by relentlessly “assaulting” the victim's body looking for excuses to the murderer? http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82897 ****** SOUTH AFRICAN YOUTH WAGE SUBSIDY A FALSE SOLUTION Democratic Left Front press statement, 9-11 June 2012 A meeting of the Democratic Left Front (DLF) in South Africa discussed a proposed youth wage subsidy, the crisis of democracy, organising women and building the movement. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82929 ****** INDIA AND HER AFRO-INDIANS Okello Oculi A glimpse of the African side of India shows people with severe psychotic problems apparently related to their poverty and intense subjection to racist contempt. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82935 ****** HOW AFRICA CAN RAISE MONEY THROUGH DIASPORA BONDS William Gumede, David Monyae and Kamo Motshidi The idea of issuing diaspora bonds should be considered a viable alternative to raise finance for Africa’s development. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82906 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Comment & analysis SOCCER, AN EXPRESSION OF LOVE AND HOPE Ayanda Kota The president's address to the Makana Local Football Association, Zondani Townhall, Grahamstown, Saturday 9 June 2012. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/82905 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 3 Advocacy & campaigns BRINGING THE U.S. BEFORE THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT Amadi Ajamu Judges at the International People's Tribunal at Columbia University Law School on January 14, 2012 found that the evidence presented made a prima facie case of crimes against humanity committed by Western powers. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/82933 ****** CALL FOR COORDINATED INTERNATIONAL PROTEST AGAINST RESTART OF OHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANT The Japanese government is bowing to pressures of the nuclear lobby in Japan. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/82912 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 4 Books & arts PERSEVERANCE, AND SURVIVAL AGAINST THE ODDS: WITH RELEVANCE AND SUCCESS? John Saxby Review of: Mary Ndlovu, 'Against the Odds: A History of Zimbabwe Project Trust ' (Harare: Zimbabwe Project Trust and Weaver Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-77922-168-1) http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/82932 ****** TIKUR SEW: A MUSIC VIDEO BY TEDDY AFRO Elyas Mulu Kiros An Ethiopian musician has just released an upbeat song and a tribute to Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia, the first African leader who defeated the Italian colonial forces at the battle of Adwa in 1896. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/82931 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 5 African Writers’ Corner ETHIOPIA TODAY Elyas Mulu Kiros Sea of nostalgic generation River of Facebook nation In and out migration Limited freedom of expression No room for innovation, But for incarceration, Parroting, or imitation ... Strong interest in destruction, Not in building a lasting foundation Almost impossible to tolerate difference And to still be friends Lack of political moderation Torpedoes in silent ocean Radicals left and right Few with a practical mission statement, Vision, and commitment Almost all stuck in the past Not too many visionaries But plenty of revolutionary wannabes And swarms of counterrevolutionaries, Comrades, cadres, copycats, bullies, Elitists, opportunists, ideologues, Egotists, character assassins, and rogues Relics of the bygone years Most anachronistic Few original or unique Little or no political compromise But bravado and false promise Fake democrats Allergic to alternative viewpoints Almost everyone wants to lead, but few followers Not too many look forward—thus, stagnant progress Confused youth Trapped in a maze … Have we learned at all from the past: >From the red blood or feudal mindset? ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 6 Cartoons AL BASHIR CORNERED Gado The Sudanese president who is wanted by the International Criminal Court to face war crimes and crimes against humanity charges over Darfur could not travel to Malawi to attend an AU summit. 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