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“Black Gold: The Struggle of the Niger Delta” is a feature film written and directed by Nigerian filmmaker, Jeta Amata. Based on the film synopsis, Black Gold sounds fairly straightforward. A community protests against multinational oil companies and the Nigerian government but to little effect. Enter militants and war is declared. Its not possible to [...]
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Olaniran Osotuyi, one of my closest friends and colleagues, appeared before a court for the first time on Monday 27. Earlier, a few days earlier, another friend, Abimbola, had also made her first appearance. We were amongst a total of 3726 Lawyers that were called to the Nigerian Bar on Valentine’s Day. When Olaniran updated [...]
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An excellent article by Gary Younge in which he traces the struggles for marriage equality through first race and now through sexual orientation. Younge rightly emphasises that to compare the two struggles is not to equate them but there are parallels which are worth highlighting and he focuses on three of these. First, is the use [...]
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How to use media to amplify community voices – Knight Foundation Ethan Zuckerman told the hundreds gathered for Knight’s Media Learning Seminar that the sociological phenomenon of homophily — the tendency to gravitate toward people with similar traits — also governs our Web habits and online conversations. “We find the same ways to sort ourselves [...]
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Three Roads to Tomorrow – a BP promotional film uses three students from the three different regions of Nigeria to depict the transition from the past to the modernity – from colonial dependence to petro dependence. And the trains ran too. I even suspect there was electricity or at least there weren’t any generators. View the film [...]
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Wonderful to see these two inspiring young Africans engaging with each other on “the art of creating“. With Emmanuel, Donald and other artists like them, our future is set in motion EMMANUEL IDUMA: Is there some sense in thinking that being an artist cannot mean being just one thing? That creativity transcends technique or form? [...]
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In the continuing African election series, I discuss the intersection of politics and music in Senegal with Senegalese activists and artists. Listen to the show here
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Destroyed on 12thJanuary, 2010, the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de L’Assomption remains majestic, it’s pink and cream walls towering over the city of Port-au-Prince. The Cathédrale is now open to the sky – a direct view to the mythical heavens. It remains a place of refuge to thousand of Port-au-Prince residents. In December 2010, I walked through [...]
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Kadialy Kouyate performs at TEDx the music of Senegal, Mali, Guinea and Gambia which dates back to the 13th century. One of the oldest instruments is the Balafon whilst the Kora is newer and dates back to 17th, 18th century when it became one of the main instruments of the Girots. Kadialy’s plays and sings [...]
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Pambazuka – Fuel scarcity and renewable energy option for Nigeria’s South-South The Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN, announced on its 7:00am network news of 14 February 2012, perhaps, as a Valentine gift to the people of Rivers State, that the nearly four days of painful experience of staying without fuel for transportation and power [...]
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A Piece of the Peace: Leymah, Please Speak Out for Human & Civil Rights for All Liberians Dear Leymah, Your courage is legendary. You are an icon in your own time for peace-building. In answer to a question about what worries you, you said: “The safety of my children and their future. The conduct of [...]
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The following Ugandan and African human rights organisations have condemned the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill 20009: Ugandan Law Society. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill proposed to Parliament in 2009 would, if enacted into law, in its current state violate international human rights law and lead to further human rights violations. The bill has been received with mixed feelings [...]
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The anger is still in me. Pure rage at certain people for failing to understand diversity beyond their narrow subjective paradises at the expense of those they claim to support through their activism. I ought to have written these words after Oxford 2011. At the time I was still too raw to review myself never [...]
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Uganda’s Homophobic Parliament vs Concerned Spiritual leaders | Return of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill A renowned spiritual leader and outspoken proponent for fairness and justice, former Anglican Bishop Christopher Ssenyonjo of West Buganda seems to think it is excluded. He said he is very disappointed with the return of the bill. The Bishop noted that [...]
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The best rendition of “Aint I A Woman” I have heard!
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In “The frightful development of this vice amongst the Natives”: Who says being queer is unAfrican?” Zackie Achmat traces the role of missionaries and the colonial state in the control and disciple of the African male body. He begins with a brief account of his own imprisonment at the age of 16 where he [...]
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Call for Papers: Murderous inclusions special issue Guest editors: Jin Haritaworn, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies Adi Kuntsman, The University of Manchester Silvia Posocco, Birkbeck, University of London Sexual citizenship is usually examined though the lens of inclusion – into rights, legal and political subjecthood – through sexuality. What has received less scholarly attention is the problem of [...]
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The Anti-Homosexuality Bill which was first introduced in 2009 and included the death penality has been tabled for debate in the 2012 parliamentary session. The Bill which did not get a reading in last years session is carried over. The Bill is being read in it’s original form and it is unclear whether it will [...]
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I was sitting amongst a bunch of teenagers in an internet café when the things I observed inspired this article. I peeped at the screens of the computers they were using and made some interesting observations. Two were playing games. One was hiding his screen and from the corner of my eye I saw naked [...]
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How do you lie dead for three years in a London flat? In 2006, a 38 year old black woman, Joyce Carol Vincent was found dead or rather her skeleton sitting in front of a stlll blaring TV, wrapping Christmas presents. She was wrapping presents. She had lovers, friends even family. How did this happen? [...]
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The house in the middle of our street is open again… Why are the windows so wide open? Been round back? Why? What’s happened round back? Tell what, Gems? We were hanging out on our veranda trying to see trying What were you trying to see? Happened round back? What? What happened? Laughter, suspense, alright! [...]
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Born in Monrovia, Liberia, Robtel Neajai Pailey is an activist/writer who spent her formative years in Washington, D.C. Robtel moved to Liberia in July 2007 to work in the Office of the President, Republic of Liberia, as special assistant for communications, where she was engaged in speech writing and managing the Office of the President’s [...]