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Women and Security Governance in Africa (book)

2012-01-27T12:47:00.000+01:00

Pambazuka
Women and Security Governance in Africa argues that human security cannot be achieved in Africa without putting women at the centre of public policy.

‘This is Africa to come’

2012-01-27T12:41:00.000+01:00

Pambazuka, Mandisi Majavu

‘The Mozambique food riots of 2010 and the recent mass protests in Nigeria show that people are capable of forcing governments to back down from enforcing policies that have a negative impact on their lives.’

Celebration and criticism as the ANC turns 100 Reflecting on Africa's oldest liberation movement

2012-01-15T10:11:00.000+01:00

Pambazuka, Danny Schechter
A group that fought against power became the power and in some cases was seduced by power. A new crusade against corruption, demagoguery and hypocrisy is needed.

Mozambique's 'Mr Guebusiness'

2012-01-07T22:07:00.000+01:00

Mail & Guardian, Luis Nhachote
The tentacles of Mozambican President Armando Emilio Guebuza's huge family business empire make Zuma Incorporated look like a spaza-shop operation.

A arte de ouvir

2011-12-20T06:03:00.001+01:00

Outraspalavras, Henning Mankell

Mozambique: Changing fortunes for the ruling party

2011-12-16T13:27:00.000+01:00

Pambazuka news
Recent municipal elections in Mozambique show that the ruling party in Mozambique, Frelimo, may not be as strong as it would like to think. Luca Bussoti reports that low voter turnout and an impressive showing by the opposition suggest all is not well for Frelimo.

A oposição A oposição por Machado da Graça

2011-11-04T19:33:00.000+01:00

SAVANA, A talhe de foice

O Conselho de Ministros constituiu uma comissão encarregada de aconselhar o Presidente da República em todas as questões relacionadas com as condecorações nacionais.
A comissão é formada por 11 elementos e, se bem percebi ao ouvir a lista na rádio, 10 deles são sólidos frelimistas e o décimo primeiro é o Presidente do PIMO, o senhor Yacub Sibindi. Se bem percebo o nome do senhor Sibindi aparece ali porque seria demasiado escandaloso a comissão ser formada totalmente por militantes da Frelimo. Isto é, ele está ali para se poder dizer que a comissão é formada por elementos da Frelimo e da oposição. Está ali, em resumo, a representar a oposição existente no país.
Ora em Moçambique há dois partidos da oposição representados a nível parlamentar, a
Renamo e o MDM. Não deixa de ser bizarro, portanto, que a oposição na tal comissão seja representada por um partido praticamente sem nenhuma representatividade eleitoral. A única explicação possível é que a Frelimo, nem estando em maioria de 10 para 1, aceita o risco de envolver a oposições verdadeiramente representativa nessa delicada questão das condecorações e reconhecimento pela Pátria daqueles que melhor a serviram. A Frelimo joga pelo seguro e o seguro é um dos porta-vozes da chamada Oposição Construtiva que, de oposição, não tem absolutamente nada.
De resto isso agora virou moda. Seja qual for o acontecimento solene que ocorra lá estará, como representante da Oposição, o senhor Sibindi ou, mais frequentemente nos últimos tempos, o senhor Mabote, dirigente de um outro partido sem nenhuma representatividade eleitoral, o Partido Trabalhista.
Quer um quer o outro fazem sempre discursos de circunstância, sempre bajulando o poder do dia, uma ou outra vez tocando, ao de leve, algum pequenino ponto em que declaram não estar de acordo com a política oficial, voltando logo a seguir aos elogios e salamaleques. E, com esta manobra, o Governo procura dar um ar de pluralidade, mal se apercebendo do ridículo em que este tipo de coisas o faz cair.
Falsa solução democrática, encontrada sem qualquer espécie de subtileza política, apenas tentando atirar areia para os nossos olhos.
Ora é sabido que areia nos olhos provoca irritação dolorosa.
E é a isso que eu me sinto sujeito neste momento

Empreiteiros do Niassa mais honestos do País

2011-11-04T13:28:00.002+01:00

Faísca

Os construtores de Niassa honram os seus compromissos com FUNAE, o que não aconteçe noutros cantos do pais. (Salvador Namburete)

Empreiteiros do Niassa mais honestos do PaísNiassa.

2011-11-04T13:27:00.000+01:00

Illegal diamond mining in Zimbabwe

2011-11-04T13:08:00.001+01:00

openDemocracy, Andrew Mambondiyani

And when I visited Manica, a town in Mozambique close to the border with Zimbabwe, it emerged that illegal diamond buyers have field players in the country who move around the small town looking for illegal diamond sellers.

Direct democracy in Kenya: a case to be made

2011-11-04T13:04:00.000+01:00

openDemocracy, Alan E Masakhalia,

Food for thought even for Moçambique?......... (BH)

A gargalhada de semana

2011-10-22T07:58:00.002+02:00

Não perca "Marco do Correio" no Correio da manhã (Nº 3682) por Machado da Graça, sobre Frelimo, distribuição de riquesas e obesidade. Da mesmo para rir.

BH

A propósito do Samora

2011-10-19T06:29:00.001+02:00

Uma vez participei num seminário na Beira. Durante um intervalo e um lanche um grupo começou a falar sobre corrupção.

Chegou-se a acordo que a situação teria sido diferente caso o Samora ainda fosse vivo.

Diz um: Oxalá fosse possível clonar o Samora!

Bosse Hammarström

O tempo em que podemos mudar o mundo

2011-10-15T07:03:00.001+02:00

Outraspalavras, Immanuel Wallerstein, provocador: capitalismo está condenado: resta saber quê irá substituí-lo. Transição não será apocalíptica: dependerá das escolhas que fizermos agora. Entrevista a Sophie Shevardnadze | Tradução: Daniela Frabasile.

Why dictators now face civilian revolt, from Syria to Swaziland

2011-10-02T10:08:00.002+02:00

CSM, Scott Baldauf

Protests in a growing number of countries show that citizens have more tools at their disposal to throw their dictators off balance, if not out of power.

Swazi citizens simply demand a government that functions.

The AU, the OAU and the UNESCO-Obiang Prize

2011-09-30T09:04:00.001+02:00

Pambazuka
Under pressure from campaigners, UNESCO last year rightly shelved a prize for research in the life sciences funded by Equatorial Guinea’s president of 32 years, the despotic Teodoro Obiang. Given Obiang's poor human rights record, why are African governments suddenly so eager to resuscitate the award, asks Tutu Alicante.

Why free, fair and transparent elections are not enough

2011-09-24T10:01:00.000+02:00

Pambazuka: Western powers preach democracy to African countries, but those same powers then undermine democracy in Africa, argues Antoine Roger Lokongo.

Mozambique - Swaziland ?

2011-09-16T08:28:00.002+02:00

I try to follow what is happening in Southern Africa. Can anyone inform me about what the position of the Mozambique government is regarding the political situation in Swaziland? What do people say and think? I see very few comments...?...

Qual é a posição do governo Moçambicano do que se passa em Suazilândia? O que pensam e dizem os Moçambicanos?

Samir Amin: A tribute to a fighter against global capitalism

2011-09-09T09:56:00.000+02:00

Pambazuka, Horace Campbell

Honouring Samir Amin as he celebrates his 80th birthday this month, Horace Campbell pays tribute to Amin’s tireless work ‘to strengthen effective forms of popular power’ and underlines his enormous contribution to our understanding of global capitalism’s increasing destructiveness.

Somalia's unholy alliance: Media, donors and aid agencies

2011-08-27T07:43:00.001+02:00

Pambazuka, Rasna Warah

Behind slick aid agency publicity campaigns designed to raise funds for famine in East Africa lies an aid industry that is complicit in corruption and the promotion of unaccountable government.

Donor aid also reduces countries’ sovereignty. Aid is the most effective (and cost-effective) way in which foreign donor countries control other countries without being labelled as colonialists.

However, neither the donors nor the aid agencies could play their part without the complicity of African governments, which have unquestioningly taken on the roles of victim and beggar.

Democracy is African too!!!

2011-08-25T13:51:00.001+02:00

Black Looks, Rumbidzai Dube

How free is the free press in Kenya?

2011-08-22T14:01:00.000+02:00

openDemocracy, Ron Singer

Kenya’s press freedom credentials are among the best in Africa, making the country a beacon for beleaguered journalists from elsewhere on the continent. But with the wane of investigative reporting, and the government's threatening 2010 Media Bill, can this reputation last?

Parasites of the poor? - International NGOs and aid agencies in Zimbabwe

2011-08-12T21:26:00.001+02:00

Pambazuka, Diana Jeater

‘The perception amongst workers who are trying to make a difference at the grassroots in Zimbabwe is that big aid agencies such as UNICEF and DfID don’t engage with communities to find out what they need; they deliver to them,’

The lack of local knowledge, amongst the ex pats who design and run development projects here, is a source of constant irritation.

Good governance is not enough

2011-08-09T12:14:00.000+02:00

Mail & Guardian, Amukelani Mayimele

Although necessary, good governance is not sufficient. Leaders must behave in an ethical manner.

Hear, hear. (BH)

Handling Mental Health in Africa: Biomedical and Traditional Models

2011-08-04T20:33:00.001+02:00

Huffington Post, Peter Byass

All around the world mental health care tends to get marginalised - and globally Africa always gets marginalised - so the combination of mental health and Africa must be one of the most neglected subjects imaginable!

How to lose goodwill and anger a republic (Malawi)

2011-07-27T06:29:00.000+02:00

Mail & Guardian, Levi Kabwato

... there is an urgent need for a sincere and brutally honest look the July 20 protests in Malawi and take appropriate action to prevent yet another dictatorship forming with drastic consequences to the region.

Magnus Malan and crimes against humanity in Africa

2011-07-26T07:11:00.000+02:00

Pambazuka, Horace Campbell reflects on Malan’s central role in the systematised discrimination of apartheid and the system’s troubling legacy.

Estado moçambicano ficou “dólar-crático”

2011-07-16T08:29:00.001+02:00

Pambazuka, Emídio Beúla

A construção da Democracia e o fenómeno da corrupção em Angola

2011-07-16T08:25:00.001+02:00

Pambazuka, Mihaela Webba

Conclusão
Tudo dito, a síntese da minha mensagem é: “o momento exige a intervenção do soberano para a restauração da república e a reformulação do Estado”.

Speaking truth to power: Africa and development

2011-07-16T08:22:00.001+02:00

Pambazuka, Yash

YASH TANDON: Today we live in a world of kleptocratic capitalism. Some “left” intellectuals call it “financialised capitalism” - finance is king; production takes a second place. But this term is limited to only its predominant economic characteristic. In essence, in political-economic terms, kleptocratic capitalism is a system of economic production and exchange based on fictitious wealth without going through production of real wealth and political governance controlled by “looters and daytime robbers”. It is “rent seeking” by the rich nations; and within each nation by the rich economic and power elite. This creates at the opposite polar end the dispossession and disempowerment of the masses of the people.

We have no youth leaders

2011-06-09T08:46:00.001+02:00

Mail & Guardian, Sandile Memela

Today’s young leaders are largely, arrogant, self-obsessed and concerned with position and power.

There are far too few young leaders who seem to be committed to meaningful change that will transform the status quo.

In Dar like Kenya, the generational leap is taking place

2011-06-04T18:20:00.001+02:00

The East African, Elsie Eyakuze

The old guard must find a way to cede to the new generation in intellectual and cultural terms as well as physical.It has already started in the North of the Continent — the Arab Spring is just as much a cultural and generational rebellion as it is a political one.

... what about Mozambique..?... (BH).....

In South Africa, Wal-Mart Refuses to Buy Local, Threatens WTO Action, and Wins

2011-06-02T07:56:00.001+02:00

Huffington Post, Stacy Mitchell

Two things seem particularly noteworthy about the approval Wal-Mart won yesterday to acquire Massmart, a Johannesburg-based chain that operates across 13 African countries.

One is that, despite the ample publicity Wal-Mart has engineered for its "buy local" efforts, the company in fact has zero interest in cultivating local suppliers beyond stocking a few token local veggies suitable for a nice photo-op.

And two: even in countries where the law clearly states that the public interest must be protected in large mergers, global trade agreements give corporations the upper hand, or at least give government authorities an excuse to ignore their own laws.

ANC vultures love money more than their country

2011-06-02T07:43:00.000+02:00

Mail & Guardian, Sandile Memela

The problem with South African politics, especially in organisations like the ANC, is that people who run for office see politics as a get-rich-quick scheme.

African solutions to African problems

2011-05-31T10:55:00.000+02:00

Mail & Guardian, Jacqueline Muna Musiitwa

My conclusion is, just as there is no one-size-fits-all in development agendas, there is no universal African solution to African problems.

Twitter diplomacy: The new face of foreign relations

2011-05-28T21:31:00.001+02:00

Mail & Guardian, Karl Ritter

When Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt couldn't reach his counterpart in Bahrain by traditional means of communication, he turned to Twitter.

Beyond the privatisation of liberation

2011-05-27T07:45:00.001+02:00

Pambazuka, Horace Campbell

Mozambique, Namibia and Angola followed similar paths of the privatisation of liberation. These governments renounced ideas of planned transformation of the colonial relations and embraced neoliberalism with gusto. This meant that in Mozambique the structures of the popular organs such as the women, youth, workers and peasants were weakened. International and western non-governmental organisations invaded the rural communities while the working people were denied the basic democratic rights for collective bargaining and industrial democracy. Journalists who attempted to expose the rampant corruption at the top leadership were warned, and one was killed in order to send a message that there should be no opposition to the privatisation of liberation.

Know your Africa, just watch Big Brother

2011-05-26T21:22:00.002+02:00

Mail & Guardian, Jacqueline Muna Musiitwa

Lusophones (Angolans and Mozambicans) are wild partiers, as can be the Tanzanians.

The show reflects a view of Africa we sometimes refuse to admit exists and I hope that continues. It also “forces” us to discuss the global culture shift Africans are experiencing (and caution our children of its existence). Not all of Africa’s infrastructure might be contemporary, but our culture is certainly globalising.

Change on the way for Angola

2011-05-24T07:08:00.000+02:00

Mail & Guardian, LOUISE REDVERS

Increasingly, anger is directed at President José Eduardo dos Santos and his wealthy circle of relatives and aides, a number of whom have been accused of looting the state through corrupt deals.

A peleja da Mulher Melancia com o Bispo Macedo em Moçambique

2011-05-20T21:15:00.001+02:00

Pambazuka, Marílio Wane

Este texto de Marílio Wane traz aos nossos leitores uma indagação interessante e nada inocente se não fossem os interesses econômicos do Brasil em relação ao continente africano e em especial os países de língua portuguesa. Afinal de contas, qual a relação entre a mulher melancia e o Bispo Macedo? Vejamos na leitura do texto como o sagrado e o profano se articulam dentro de um interesse multinacional brasileiro via uma grande rede de televisão.

Será que em Moçambique existiu uma transição democrática completa?

2011-05-20T21:10:00.001+02:00

Pambazuka, Joaquim M. Maloa

O autor neste artigo procura responder à seguinte pergunta: será que em Moçambique a transição democrática foi completa? Será que temos uma democracia consolidada? Crise de separação dos poderes, Executivos, Legislativos e Judiciários; violação dos direitos humanos; violação das liberdades civis e políticas; o medo de represálias das instituições políticas e governamentais; repressões violentas nas manifestações são temas tratados pelo autor com vista a responder a sua pergunta de partida.

Turkey moves into Africa

2011-05-12T20:04:00.000+02:00

Le Monde Diplomatique, Alain Vicky

Turkey relaunched itself on the international economic scene in 1998 when Ismail Cem, foreign minister in a coalition government led by Mesut Yilmaz, decided to redefine Turkey’s international identity so as to raise its status from that of an ally of the West to that of an active and constructive player on the global scene.

Malawi democracy in a test tube

2011-05-07T07:27:00.000+02:00

Pambazuka news, Akwete Sande

How healthy is Malawi's leader for democracy in that country?

The failures of Uganda’s democracy

2011-05-05T08:26:00.000+02:00

Independent, Andrew M.Mwenda
Local councils have undermined the effectiveness of public administration without fostering the expected accountability dividend.

Mutebi’s findings are both saddening and illuminating. They show that people have been able to effectively use their voting power to avoid the specific form of personal inconvenience that actually delivered the community’s good. Yet they have been unable to use this same power to force institutions of government to deliver public goods and services. Democracy had undermined the effectiveness of public administration without fostering accountability.

SA's poor must shun the polls

2011-05-03T06:11:00.001+02:00

Mail & Guardian, Andile Mngxitama, Editor of New Frank Talk

Access to the state as either senior public servants, MPs or, better still, Cabinet ministers, coupled with BEE and employment equity, contributed to the building of a tiny, privileged black social stratum. This new political and economic elite helped build new exclusions and entrenched apartheid when it came to access to the things the Constitution said were important for a life of dignity.

What the World Got Wrong in Côte D'Ivoire

2011-04-30T07:25:00.001+02:00

Foreign Policy, THABO MBEKI
Why is the United Nations entrenching former colonial powers on our continent? Africans can and should take the lead in resolving their own disputes.

How many blatant abuses of power will Africa and the rest of the developing world experience before the vision of a democratic system of global governance is realised?

Moda mocambicana na televisão sueca

2011-04-25T20:19:00.002+02:00

Africa's Worst Dictator How has Robert Mugabe been able to rule Zimbabwe for so long?

2011-04-18T08:06:00.000+02:00

Slate. Christopher Hitchens

Peter Godwin's most recent book, The Fear, updates the continuing story of popular resistance. In my opinion it's not quite as powerful as his earlier book, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, but it does convey the awful immediate reality of a state where official lawlessness and cruelty are the norm. It also maps the symptoms of regime-decay.

Violência Policial, ilegalismos e revolta popular em Moçambique

2011-04-17T08:27:00.000+02:00

Pambazuka
Joaquim Malola afirma que acontecimentos recentes de violência policial na cidade de Maputo, Moçambique, apontam desafios significativos em termos da afirmação do Estado de Direito nesse país.

Mozambique: Will new measures curb popular anger?

2011-04-17T08:22:00.000+02:00

Pambazuka
The Mozambican government has just introduced new subsidies to cushion the blow of rising food prices. But will they be enough to deflate popular protests? Alcino Moiana thinks not.

Without a Savior The staggering breadth of southern Africa's political dysfunction

2011-04-16T21:10:00.001+02:00

bookforum.com, Rian Malan

Year of the boomerang? Frantz Fanon and the Arab uprisings

2011-04-15T20:44:00.000+02:00

openDemocracy, Fatin Abbas

Zimbabwe: Reality check for Mugabe at SADC

2011-04-12T12:29:00.001+02:00

Zimbabwe Independent, Norwegian Council for Africa

However, Mugabe's luck ran out last week in Livingstone, Zambia. The Sadc Troika took him on. Presidents Rupiah Banda of Zambia (Troika chair), Jacob Zuma of South Africa (deputy Troika and also incoming chair and facilitator), Armando Guebuza of Mozambique (outgoing Troika chair) flogged Mugabe after years of tolerating his leadership and policy failures, as well as arrogance and disdain.

Time and place for hope? .... (BH)

Why presidents' sons are Africa's new crop of pariahs

2011-04-12T12:24:00.001+02:00

The East African (Kenya), Norwegian Council for Africa, Christine Mungai

Corruption and Dependence: South Africa’s road to ruin or salvation?

2011-03-31T12:29:00.000+02:00

openDemocracy, Moeletsi Mbeki

The presence of corruption from the top to the bottom rungs of the ANC government has detrimental consequences for the South African public sector and economy. These consequences may have important electoral implications for the ANC. Will corruption lead the country to ruin or will it lead to the ANC's own ruin?

Portugal's endgame?

2011-03-27T13:49:00.000+02:00

openDemocracy, Sofia Diogo Mateus

But don’t be fooled when the prime minister says that this political crisis was caused by ‘a negative coalition’. It was caused by several coalitions playing petty politics, in a country where that seems to be all that truly matters.

Portugal: no country for young men?

2011-03-27T13:47:00.001+02:00

openDemocracy, Susana Moreira Marques

It’s hard to translate the word “camarada”.

Quando dois mundos que se cruzam

2011-03-25T09:51:00.000+01:00

Outras palavras, Noam Chomsky

An African solution to the Libyan crisis?

2011-03-25T09:31:00.000+01:00

Pambazuka, 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.

Africa rising? - Will popular rebellions spread south of the Sahara?

2011-03-18T09:30:00.000+01:00

Pambazuka
Many an African dictator is trembling in his boots following popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. But are the elements in place for rebellion to spread farther south, asks William Gumede.

Nyerere, nationalism and Pan-Africanism

2011-03-18T09:17:00.002+01:00

Pambazuka news
Julius Nyerere was among ‘the most articulate, intense and militant’ of the first generation of African nationalists. Issa Shivji traces the development of a Pan-Africanist philosopher-king and his struggle to live a more principled politics.

Was Nyerere’s socialism then a strategy for political survival9 or a philosophical conviction of a vision for a future society or both?

The death of Nigerian progressive politics?

2011-03-18T09:09:00.000+01:00

Pambazuka news
Two weeks before Nigeria's election, Ike Okonta takes aim at progressive politics in Nigeria - or the lack thereof. He traces the crisis back to the rule of General Ibrahim Babangida in the 1980s, when universities were devastated by economic policy.

South Africa: The history and character of 'black economic empowerment'

2011-03-16T06:47:00.001+01:00

Pambazuka, Dale McKinley
Dale McKinley explains how black economic empowerment in South Africa has come to be associated with elite accumulation, corruption and extreme inequality.

Manyi is not alone in his racism

2011-03-05T06:40:00.000+01:00

Mail & Guardian, JONATHAN JANSEN
I was detribalised a long time ago -- and so I write here as a human being still committed to the rebuilding of our nation from the ruins of the apartheid past and still hopeful about the possibility of a non-racial and non-ethnicised South Africa.

Protests across Africa: Different attention for different countries?

2011-03-04T06:47:00.000+01:00

Pambazuka, Sokari Ekine
Focusing on Libya, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Gabon and Zimbabwe, Sokari Ekine provides a round-up of international and social media coverage of the multiple sites of sustained protests across Africa and considers the differences in media attention between each of them.

“Como mudar o mundo”

2011-02-26T05:09:00.000+01:00

Outras palavras, Terry Eagleton, do London Review of Books

Sweden pledges more aid for 'web activists'

2011-02-11T13:52:00.000+01:00

The Local
Sweden's minister for development cooperation has pledged to increase aid for social media and technical systems to prevent repressive regimes from shutting off the internet, such as the Egyptian government's measures last week.

The Inequality Wildcard

2011-02-06T11:05:00.001+01:00

Project Syndicate, Kenneth Rogoff

What is clear is that inequality is not just a long-term issue. Concerns about the impact of income inequality are already constraining fiscal and monetary policy in developed and developing countries alike as they attempt to extricate themselves from the hyper-stimulative policies adopted during the financial crisis.

More importantly, it is very likely that countries’ abilities to navigate the rising social tensions generated by gaping inequality could separate the winners and losers in the next round of globalization. Inequality is the big wildcard in the next decade of global growth, and not just in North Africa.

A skimming flight over Mozambican memory

2011-02-04T21:15:00.001+01:00

Pambazuka news, Review of ‘Memórias em Vôo Rasante’ (The memoirs of Jacinto Veloso) , Wilson Gomes de Almeida

Another election, another Museveni term?

2011-01-23T09:13:00.001+01:00

Mail & Guardian, Tinyiko Sam Maluleke

“We would rather be ruled by a python whose stomach is so full he can hardly move so he can do no more damage than to open the floodgates for a new pack of wild dogs every five years,” he concluded. At that point I had no words. Is that what democracy has come to mean in Uganda, South Africa, Cameroon and elsewhere? What a sad story we live in!

Malawi at a crossroads

2011-01-21T13:04:00.000+01:00

Pambazuka, Chifundo Phiri
Is Malawi on the verge of becoming Africa’s newest dictatorship?

O impacto da revolução na Tunísia

2011-01-18T20:29:00.000+01:00

Folha Online, Fábio Zanini,

The Kindest Cut - Swaziland turns to mass circumcision.

2011-01-09T06:05:00.000+01:00

Atlantic, Shaun Raviv

An embarrassment of riches

2011-01-02T09:47:00.001+01:00

Mail & Guardian, RAPULE TABANE
So the question is: Should we moralise and ask how the wealth was acquired and how it's being blown on trivial materialism or do we let people enjoy "their" money without seeking to burden them with a social conscience they do not have?

As curiosas cédulas do Sudão

2011-01-01T16:02:00.001+01:00

Pé na África

Me pareceu estranho o pessoal da separação não ter reclamado. Visualmente, a imagem pró-unidade é muito mais simpática do que a da mão espalmada, um tanto agressiva.

O que fazer na Costa do Marfim?

2010-12-25T19:48:00.000+01:00

Pá na África
O presidente Laurent Gbagbo perdeu a disputa em que tentava se reeleger, há pouco menos de um mês, mas se recusa a deixar o cargo.

‘Watajikaanga na mafuta yao’ - ‘They will fry themselves with their own fat’

2010-12-19T09:25:00.001+01:00

Pambazuka, Isaac Newton Kinity

Cote d’Ivoire: Laurent Gbagbo against the world

2010-12-19T09:21:00.000+01:00

Pambazuka, Uche Igwe
‘African leaders must learn to accept defeat with equanimity and put national interest and continental prosperity above selfish quest for power'

WikiLeaks cables: Antidote to corruption in Africa?

2010-12-19T09:13:00.001+01:00

Pambazuka, Cameron Duodu

The Valley of Taboos - V.S. Naipaul dares to discuss Africa's indigenous beliefs.

2010-12-18T15:24:00.001+01:00

Slate, Johann Hari

You’re not man enough!

2010-12-10T15:43:00.001+01:00

Mail & Guardian, By Lemos Magule* with Fed Katerere

My name is Lemos Magule and I am a 50-year-old man living in Chimoio, Mozambique’s fourth largest city.

O preço da luta para emancipação (BH)

Por um Estado que proteja as crianças negras do apedrejamento moral no cotidiano escolar

2010-12-10T06:31:00.001+01:00

Pambazuka, Eliane Cavalleiro
Quem se interessa por estudar o Brasil não deve olvidar de ler este texto da pesquisadora e educadora Dra. Eliane Cavalleiro, pois,ela escreve uma carta aberta ao presidente Lula em meio ao debate caloroso sobre um livro de cunho racista que talvez será distribuído nas escolas em todo o país para que nossas crianças leiam. Ela argumenta que, se o Ministério da Educação do Brasil, o MEC,levar a diante tal posição isso irá retroceder em muito a conquistas da luta anti-racismo no Brasil.

A recuperação de sementes é possível? Uma história vinda da aldeia de Kathulumbi, no Quênia

2010-12-10T06:30:00.000+01:00

Pambazuka, Anne Maina
Os habitantes da aldeia de Kathulumbi, no Quénia, estão a construir um banco de sementes com vista ao fortalecimento da biodiversidade e do acesso a variedades de sementes não contaminadas. Produtos básicos tradicionais como a mandioca e o milho-miúdo têm vindo a ser substituídos por variedades de milho geneticamente modificadas e de preço mais acessível. Preservando as variedades de sementes tradicionais, os habitantes de Kathulumbi pretendem tornar as sementes mais baratas, mais sustentáveis e mais nutritivas do que as suas congéneres geneticamente modificadas.

Geoengenharia do planeta: o que está em jogo em África?

2010-12-10T06:28:00.000+01:00

Pambazuka, Diana Bronson
A geoengenharia está desempenhando um papel cada vez mais proeminente nas abordagens dos países do norte para combater as alterações climáticas, provenientes de propostas que ignoram as consequências sociais e ambientais para as populações ao redor do mundo, escreve Diana Bronson.

Grande continente e pequena tecnologia: Nanotecnologia e África

2010-12-10T06:27:00.001+01:00

Pambazuka, Kathy Jo Wetter
Apesar dos apelos supostamente auto-evidentes sobre as habilidades da África em resolver problemas sociais e de saúde, o desenvolvimento da nanotecnologia deveria ser encarado a partir de uma séria e crítica reflexão, escreve Kathy Jo Wetter. Em uma discussão sobre o que é nanotecnologia e os riscos associados a ela, Wetter enfatiza que a nanotecnologia oferece novas oportunidades de controle monopolístico “sobre tanto matéria animada quanto matéria inanimada”, enquanto as regulações governamentais pelo mundo permanecem completamente inadequadas para responder aos seus riscos únicos.

Biopirataria, o regime de propriedade intelectual e os meios de subsistência em África

2010-12-10T06:26:00.000+01:00

Pambazuka, Oduor Ong’wen
Os países africanos apresentam, na sua maioria, uma tendência rápida para a privatização de plantas africanas, escreve Oduor Ong'wen. Ainda que os materiais vegetais patenteados sejam frequentemente oriundos de África, assim que são patenteados por empresas multinacionais, tornam-se virtualmente inacessíveis tendo em vista o bem comum.

Novas tecnologias e a ameaça à soberania na África

2010-12-10T06:23:00.001+01:00

Pambazuka, Firoze Manji e Molly Kane
Produzida em colaboração com o Grupo ETC, esta edição especial apresenta um conjunto de artigos que discutem a evolução impressionante na bio e nano tecnologia e suas implicações alarmantes para o continente africano e e para o Sul Global. Firoze Manji e Molly Kane delineiam a enorme dimensão deste "tsunami tecnológico", os imensos desafios para a autodeterminação da África e a ação dos ativistas para desafiar o assalto corporativo sobre a soberania da bioenergia.

Child brides, HIV and cultural rights

2010-12-02T08:02:00.000+01:00

Mail & Guardian, Jennifer Thorpe
In South Africa, the tradition of ukuthwala allows parents to arrange marriages for their children. This tradition originated out of parents’ interest in securing a good home for their children, but has unfortunately evolved into something more similar to child trafficking. It is a dangerous form of GBV that pays little attention to the rights of the child, specifically girl children.

Pambazuka News 507: Special issue: 5th Anniversary of the AU Women's protocol

2010-11-26T19:20:00.002+01:00

Features:
Looking back, looking forward, Five years of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, Mary Wandia

SOAWR: Lessons we have learned, Faiza Jama Mohamed

The next frontier: Legal action and the AU women’s protocol, Corey Calabrese and Caroline Muthoni Muriithi

African Women’s Decade: Strategic opportunities, Monica Ighorodje

Advocating for women’s rights in Africa: Any new insights?, Norah Matovu Winyi

State reporting key to implementation of women’s protocol, Karen Stefiszyn

The promise of the women’s rights protocol, What is right with Africa, L. Amede Obiora and Crystal Whalen

South Africa’s vote at the UN undermines its own Constitution

Um africano julgado por terrorismo

2010-11-21T21:10:00.001+01:00

Folha Online, Pé na África, Fábio Zanini
Ahmed Ghailani, de 36 anos, é um tanzaniano que estava preso na base norte-americana de Guantánamo, em Cuba, sob a acusação de ter participado da conspiração para explodir duas embaixadas norte-americanas em 1998.

O Brasil de Lula em Moçambique

2010-11-19T21:03:00.001+01:00

Pambazuka, Marilio Wane

Foreign Aid for Scoundrels

2010-11-18T08:43:00.000+01:00

William Easterly, The New York Review of Books

What the report on SA violence overlooked

2010-11-13T11:19:00.000+01:00

Mail & Guardian, Michael Baillie

Violence has something to do with the way boys and men are being socialised. It has something to do with what we are teaching our young men, and how they are brought up — in short it has to do with notions of masculinity and manhood.

Compatibilidades

2010-10-24T14:16:00.002+02:00

Savana, Machado da Graça

Recentemente o Magazine Independente reportou que a Assembleia da República andava à procura de uma residência para a sua Presidente ou, em alternativa, para o anterior Presidente, o dr. Mulembwe. Num ou noutro caso pretende-se uma casa de 6 divisões, com piscina e garagem para 6 viaturas. Segundo o autor do artigo, Lourenço Jossias, uma casa desse tipo custa uma renda de cerca de 6 a 7 mil dólares por mês. Isto, é claro, para além dos chorudos vencimentos e não menos chorudas outras regalias que o beneficiário considera compatíveis.
....
Há dias recebi um pequeno filme sobre as instalações que o parlamento da Suécia reserva aos deputados de fora de Estocolmo que têm que residir na capital para participarem nas sessões. Pois esses alojamentos ficam num prédio comum e cada deputado tem direito a um espaço pessoal que corresponde a um quarto de hotel, relativamente grande, onde pode dormir e ter uma pequena área para trabalhar ou
receber visitas. Depois existe uma cozinha grande, colectiva, onde cada deputado cozinha os seus alimentos e os come, numa enorme mesa comum para todos os moradores.
Por fim há uma lavandaria, com bastantes máquinas automáticas de lavar roupa, que os deputados podem utilizar, marcando antecipadamente, num calendário pendurado na parede, os dias e horas em que pretendem usar a lavandaria. Empregados não há. São os deputados que arrumam e limpam os quartos, que cozinham e lavam a sua roupa.
Mas isso é na Suécia, país cuja riqueza não se compara com a nossa... Após a Independência, Samora dizia que a Frelimo não tinha lutado para substituir os exploradores de pele branca por exploradores de pele negra. E, muito possivelmente, essa foi uma das razões porque o mataram. Para permitir enriquecimentos bruscos,
nada compatíveis com a pobreza do nosso país.

The Banana Republic — coming soon to a home near you

2010-10-24T10:30:00.000+02:00

Mail & Guardian, Siyabonga Ntshingila
The very idea that corruption could become a culture, be the way things are done, the norm. Not a shortcut for the desperate and unscrupulous, but the only way of getting things done. We have a term for THOSE countries — banana republics.

Mozambique: Women’s lives to tell, not to exploit

2010-10-24T10:07:00.001+02:00

Pambazuka, Mona Hakimi
This contrasts strongly with Noticia’s approach. In the case of the young Mozambican girl, a journalist put words to her situation in a way that exploited and made worse a personal tragedy.

Pambazuka News 501: Integration or federation? Towards political unity for Africa

2010-10-24T09:49:00.002+02:00

Pambazuka

Highlights from this issue
- ZIMBABWE UPDATE: Zim unity government must end in 2011, says Mugabe
- AFRICAN UNION MONITOR: Pan-African Parliament adopts recommendations on maternal, child health
- WOMEN & GENDER: Report probes impact of globalisation on women’s migration
- CORRUPTION: Diamonds (and corporates) are forever in Zimbabwe 
- LGBTI: Gay rights in Africa, now for the good news

The Swazis who dare to demand democracy

2010-10-21T10:12:00.000+02:00

Mail & Guardian, Alex Matthews
But as its approach to Zimbabwe shows, South Africa is notoriously reluctant to step on the toes of her neighbours. It will be up to the rest of the international community encourage Swaziland’s monarchy to modernise.

Sweden: Modern and realistic aid

2010-10-18T07:06:00.001+02:00

Press release 13 October 2010, Ministry for Foreign Affairs

"The Emperor's New Clothes" is a short tale by Hans Christian Andersen about two weavers who promise an Emperor a new suit of clothes that are invisible to those unfit for their positions or incompetent. When the Emperor parades before his subjects in his new clothes, a child cries out, "But he isn't wearing anything at all!" The tale has been translated into over a hundred languages.

South Africa's foreign policy - Human rights? What's that?

2010-10-17T15:37:00.001+02:00

Economist
Indeed, Mr Zuma seems as happy to hobnob with dictators as Mr Mbeki was.