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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 664: AFRICA'S MENDICANT RULERS AND BEAUTIFUL LAWS FAILING THE PEOPLE 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 #PambazukaNews Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Announcements, 3. Comment & analysis, 4. Advocacy & campaigns, 5. Books & arts, 6. African Writers' Corner /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features CHINA'S OIL SAFARI CROSSES JAPAN'S ENERGY DIPLOMACY IN AFRICA Narcisse Jean Alcide Nana China may view the Japanese leader's recent tour of Africa as an attempt to contain its own influence in Africa. Japan is focusing on developing trade with Africa, particularly Mozambique's natural gas. How will China adjust to a new competitor? http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90446 ****** WHICH AFRICAN RENAISSANCE ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? Motsoko Pheko Does the African Union confuse the term 'African Renaissance' with Pan-Africanism? These terms cannot mean the same thing when the 'European Renaissance' brought slavery, colonialism and racism to Africa http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90447 ****** ETHIOPIA: AN ANALYSIS OF RECENT ECONOMIC GROWTH AND POTENTIAL CHALLENGES FikreJesus Amahazion Ethiopia's much vaunted recent economic growth belies the reality on the ground. Suggestions of rapid socioeconomic transformation to a middle-income economy are likely to prove fanciful, unless urgent significant national concerns are addressed http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90435 ****** WHY AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT 'PRINCIPLES' MUST BE BURIED Rahul Goswami The FAO draft principles have little local basis and less community future. That is why they are very likely to be employed to obscure the power imbalances that exist to deepen industrial control of the means of agricultural production - and that is why these will not be acceptable as a measure of food growers' and food consumers' rights http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90436 ****** LORD'S RESISTANCE ARMY POLITICIZING SEXUAL VIOLENCE Tabu Butagira and Barbara Among Sexual and gender based violence in Uganda fails to be adequately addressed by the Ugandan government that fails to consult with women on this issue. It seems sexual and physical attacks on women are new 'weapons to discipline women' in to submission http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90445 ****** INVOLUNTARY RELOCATIONS: GLENCORE'S UMSIMBITHI MINE Franz Fuls Mining companies in South Africa, including Glencore seem to consider the Marikana massacre allows them to ride roughshod over the rights of miners and farmworkers. South Africa continues to have 'beautiful laws' that fail to be implemented in the interests of ordinary people http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90449 ****** THE TINDOUF REFUGEE CAMPS: A MOROCCAN'S REFLECTIONS Nadir Bouhmouch This Moroccan filmmaker and human rights activist had the opportunity to visit the camps in southern Algeria occupied by Saharawi people. Bouhmouch describes his observations and measures these against the predominant narrative of 'territorial integrity' so vigorously promoted by Morocco, which illegally occupies Western Sahara http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90434 ****** 50 YEARS SINCE FREEDOM SUMMER: AFRICAN AMERICANS STILL FACING NATIONAL AND CLASS OPPRESSION Fannie Lou Hamer remains a symbol for her role in the Freedom Movement Abayomi Azikiwe There are many lessons to be learned from the events of 1964 in the Southern states of America when many activists campaigned for political rights for black people. Among them was the valliant Fannie Lou Hamer. Many of those rights are being eroded today in America http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90448 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Announcements FEBRUARY 2014 ISSUE OF THE FAHAMU REFUGEE LEGAL AID NEWSLETTER The February 2014 issue of the Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter is now available: http://frlan.tumblr.com/post/75310536177/february-2014 Please help us distribute it, and consider contributing in the future. You can also like our Facebook page, and follow us on Twitter! http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/Announce/90457 ****** LGBTI IN AFRICA: A CALL FOR ARTICLES In February, Pambazuka News plans to carry a special issue dedicated to the LGBTI situation in Africa. Send in your contribution http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/Announce/90255 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 3 Comment & analysis AFRICA'S MENDICANT RULERS AND THEIR INTELLECTUAL ENABLERS Olufemi Taiwo There is no nice way of stating an ugly truth. As at this writing, the entire continent of Africa, from Cape to Cairo and all points in-between, is under the rule of mendicants enabled by a coterie of intellectuals who are either in profound denial or otherwise think there is something inevitable about Africa's begging ways in world affairs. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90438 ****** AFRO-OPTIMISTIC PESSIMISM AND THE CHALLENGE OF ARMED CONFLICT IN AFRICA'S NEWEST NATION Odomaro Mubangizi Given the history of nation-building in Africa, the violent conflict in South Sudan is not entirely surprising. To end it and lay the ground for lasting peace, the protagonists together with regional players and the international community need to isolate and boldly address the deep-rooted causes of the conflict http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90440 ****** AMERICAN STATE OF THE UNION: A FESTIVAL OF LIES Glen Ford Before the nation and the world, President Obama pledges to take "action" against "economic inequality," while simultaneously holding secret negotiations on a Trans Pacific Partnership trade scheme that will quicken the pace of the global Race to the Bottom, deepening economic inequalities. "Lies of omission are even more despicable than the overt variety, because they hide." http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90453 ****** BARACK OBAMA, THE STATE OF THE UNION AND THE PRISON STATE Bruce A. Dixon For a generation now, predatory policing, the war on drugs and the prison state have been government's most frequent intersection with young black Americans. The gossip before this year's State of the Union was that the president would now do by executive order all those good things Republicans have blocked him on the last 3 years. Does that include reining in or rolling back the prison state? Should we hold our collective breath? http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90452 ****** KENYATTA AT THE ICC: IS JUSTICE DEFERRED JUSTICE DENIED? Alemayehu G. Mariam Are all the delays, postponements and deferrals gentle hints and winks that some kind of a political deal has been cut between the ICC, Kenyatta, the African Union and the UN Security Council to eventually let Kenyatta off the hook for 'lack of evidence'? http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90437 ****** OAU: THREE YEARS WITHOUT A STUDENTS UNION Kola Ibrahim Vibrant student unionism has been repressed in campuses across Nigeria. It is a pitiful state of affairs as university administrators run dictatorships that silence student voices. What societies are these universities preparing the students for? http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90441 ****** REPATRIATION OF SOMALI REFUGEES FROM KENYA AND THE PRINCIPLE OF NON-REFOULEMENT Hawa Noor While Kenya has the right to pursue its security interests and protect its people from terrorist attacks, it is important that the country adheres to relevant international conventions it is a signatory to in the repatriation of refugees http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90439 ****** SINO-AFRICAN TRADE: MODERN-DAY BROBDINGNAG AND FLYING GEESE Zaki Harare Trade volumes between China and Africa have increased tremendously in recent years and close ties between the two are growing fast in a number of areas. Whether China will be a catalyst for massive transformation of Africa in the next few decades entirely depends on the strategic decisions taken by African nations http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90443 ****** STATE OF THE UNION: AWFUL Margaret Kimberley Do not expect honesty, accuracy, or even a semblance of reality from U.S. presidents' reports on the State of the Union. Better to call it the State of Delusion address. So, skip the charade, here are the facts: "The state of the union is not very good for anyone except the ruling 1%." http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90451 ****** ZAMBIA: NO NEED TO CUT POPULATION GROWTH NOW Henry Kyambalesa Zambia is not over-populated. On the contrary its small population is an economic disadvantage. A sensible population policy should let the country's population grow to about 20 million people, after which the government can institute appropriate population control measures http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90442 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 4 Advocacy & campaigns KENYA: STATEMENT ON THE VIOLENCE AT MASJID MUSA MOSQUE, MOMBASA Muslim Human Rights Forum Muslim Human Rights Forum calls for an independent inquiry into the causes of the extreme violence at Masjid Musa and other places and the putting in place of civil and legally acceptable measures of detecting and dealing with manifestations of violent extremism from any quarter be they religious or secular, state or non-state actors http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/90450 ****** ON THE RECALL OF MADIBENG MAYOR AND THE CHIEF WHIP: ANC ELECTION POSTURING The decision to only recall the mayor and chief whip of the Madibeng municipality is nothing but election posturing by the ANC. It shows that the ANC leadership are tied hand and foot to Anglo American and are indeed a lackey of imperialism. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/90455 ****** US TAKES HISTORIC STANCE AGAINST LAND GRABS-RELATED FORCED EVICTIONS IN ETHIOPIA Oakland, CA - In a historic move, the US Congress has taken a stance on land grabs-related human rights abuses in Ethiopia. The 2014 Omnibus Appropriations Bill contains provisions that ensure that US development funds are not used to support forced evictions in Ethiopia http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/90454 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 5 Books & arts NEW BOOK POINTS TOWARDS A NEW SWAZILAND Peter Kenworthy The new book are many more or less thinly veiled criticisms of the fictional Soshangane society - and by extension Swaziland - and the absolute monarchy that controls everything from the economy to the definition of culture http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/90444 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 6 African Writers' Corner POET SAYS WRITERS ARE FULL-TIME WORKERS Moses Magadza In this exclusive and wide-ranging interview with MOSES MAGADZA, BEAVEN TAPURETA, a well-known Zimbabwean poet says, inter alia, that too many people all over the world continue to turn their noses at writers, perpetuating the mistaken belief that they are essentially unemployed people. He says far from being part of the lumpen proletariat, writers are full-time workers and unless and until they are regarded as such, their rights would continue to be violated. Tapureta is the founding Director of Win Zimbabwe, an organisation that networks Zimbabwean writers through the internet and through workshops and readings. He was one of the key staffers at Budding Writers Association of Zimbabwe (BWAZ) when it folded a decade ago. Tapureta is a trained journalist. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/African_Writers/90456 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ Fahamu - Networks For Social Justice http://www.fahamu.org Pambazuka News is published by Fahamu Ltd. (c) 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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