Through the voices of the peoples of Africa and the global South, Pambazuka Press and Pambazuka News disseminate analysis and debate on the struggle for freedom and justice.
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Features
African world view on revolutionary ruptures and pace of change in 2012
Horace Campbell (2012-02-02)
cc M HProgressives must brace for intensified struggles in 2012 because people in all continents are seeking alternatives beyond neo-liberal domination. The current European struggles will sharpen the struggles in Latin America and Africa.
President Wade vs. the people: Senegal is in danger
Arame Tall (2012-02-02)
cc G PThe deadly violence that has broken out in Senegal seems surreal even to the most seasoned analysts of the West African nation’s political evolution. Angry Senegalese believe President Wade has executed a coup to stay in power.
Angola: CNN accepts ads from corrupt regime
Rafael Marques de Morais (2012-02-01)
The company contracted to market Angola overseas is owned by the president’s children. While two-thirds of the population survives on less than $2 a day, the president and his protégés plunder the country.
Angola: Public official goes shopping with state money
Rafael Marques de Morais (2012-02-01)
cc C RThe new hypermarket is one of many businesses belonging to a fast-growing empire owned by senior public officials, which over the last three years has become the biggest player in the national economy.
DRC: What next after corruption of truth and justice?
Jacques Depelchin (2012-02-01)
cc WikimediaAs in other parts of the world, there are signs of revolt of ordinary people against many decades of oppression and dispossession. The dictators leave, but the system which bore them remains.
Debate: Critiquing the critique on China in Zambia
Human Rights Watch and labour abuses in Chinese state-owned copper mines (2012-02-01)
cc P S 2011In December, Pambazuka News carried an article that critiqued a Human Rights Watch report that had exposed labour abuses in Chinese state-owned copper mines in Zambia. Here, Human Rights Watch responds to that critique.
Debate: The wrong answers to the wrong question
Barry Sautman, Yan Hairong (2012-02-02)
cc MerlinIn responding to a critique of their Human Rights Watch report, the authors make basic mistakes by ignoring key structural conditions, keeping alive racist myths about Chinese cruelty that prevent 'a focused effort on the actual causes of the grave human rights problems that exist in mining on the continent', argue the authors of the original critique.
Beyond ICC and Kenya’s divisive politics
Uche Igwe (2012-02-01)
cc M C FTime has come for politics of accountability and inclusion. The country’s top leaders need to move away from their ethnic enclaves and promote reconciliation and healing as Kenya heads to the next election.
Time to focus on post-election violence victims
Rasna Warah (2012-02-01)
cc A PWhat should concern Kenya is not the political and personal fate of the suspects whose charges have been confirmed by the International criminal Court, but the lives of the thousands of victims who are still nursing their wounds four years later.
The new landlessness and the lessons of Biafra
Abena Ampofoa Asare (2012-02-01)
cc C HUnlike the Biafra experience, indigenous peoples confronting land dispossession are looking beyond the nation-state for justice.
What Westerners don't understand about modern economy
Jean-Paul Pougala (2012-02-01)
cc W E CWhy is the Chinese economy thriving while that of the West is in crisis? The answer is of great relevance to Africans who have for decades embraced development models created in the boardrooms of Western capitals.
We blacks are failing our own people
Veli Mbele (2012-02-01)
cc DplanetIn just under two decades of liberation, South Africa is now gripped by the deadly politics of character assassination, rapacious self-enrichment and factionalism. The ideals of the anti-apartheid struggle have been lost in public life.
In defence of the new AU headquarters
Okello Oculi (2012-02-01)
cc C CHow genuine is the anger that has been expressed in some quarters about Africa accepting a gift of the new African Union headquarters from China? There are so many other issues of urgent concern around the continent that the critics should direct their wrath to as well.
New AU headquarters: A tribute to China-Africa relations
Antoine Roger Lokongo (2012-02-01)
cc PZNWhich other friend of Africa would be willing to fund, design, build and maintain a new $200 million AU headquarters in the middle of a global financial crisis?
LGBT: David Kato Award goes to Jamaican activist
Maurice Tomlinson (2012-02-01)
cc C DThe winner, who fled Jamaica a year ago following homophobic death threats, vows to continue with the struggle for LGBT rights in honour of the the fallen Ugandan activist.
Ethiopia: Concerns about Gibe 3 Dam
David Turton (2012-02-01)
cc I RThere is a powerful economic argument for Gibe 3 Dam. But there are also powerful arguments for ensuring that large-scale river-basin development projects provide genuine and sustainable development opportunities for the affected people.
We are building a new way of organising
Jared Sacks (2012-02-02)
cc K N‘While as a young movement we try to build radically new forms of direct democracy within by challenging the old guard, we will also be able to strengthen accountability and the authority of the decisions we make as a collective.’
South Africa: Charges against protesters withdrawn
Benjamin Fogel (2012-02-01)
cc V P‘While supporters of the protest argued that their meeting posed no threat to public safety, the city had declared the movement a threat.’
Kenya: Bunge la Mwananchi movement and its challenges
Julius Okoth (2012-02-02)
cc N HAlthough it remains one of the best known pro-poor social movements in Kenya, Bunge la Mwananchi faces serious internal challenges that hamper its effectiveness in mounting collective action. The problems need urgent attention.
Libya and Syria: Lizzie Phelan on her reporting
Lizzie Phelan (2012-02-02)
cc MREBRASIL‘I have been accused by some of being a mouthpiece for the [former] Libyan government but now the truth is coming out. We know that the essence of the former Libyan government's analysis has been proved correct.’