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Liepollo Pheko
2012-02-01, Issue 568
The major weakness of a new film is that it removes the agency, courage and brilliance of black women.
Women and Security Governance in Africa
‘Funmi Olonisakin & Awino Okech, eds.
Kofi Johnson
2012-01-25, Issue 567
Women and Security Governance in Africa argues that human security cannot be achieved in Africa without putting women at the centre of public policy.
Reclaiming African History
Jacques Depelchin
Peter Limb
2012-01-26, Issue 567
Reclaiming African History jousts with the ruling ideas in society - or public history - to stimulate a re-think of Africans’ predicament and an understanding of its historical causes, and to encourage positive action to rectify current abuses.
Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti
Jeb Sprague
2012-01-26, Issue 567
Years of interviews, investigative reporting, and analysis of classified US government documents went into a book on right-wing paramilitarism in Haiti.
A woman, once a girl: Breaking silence
A review of Betty Makoni’s new book.
Trafford publishing
2012-01-26, Issue 567
The journey Betty Makoni has travelled leaves permanent and visible footsteps. Her poetry book takes a new approach to self-empowerment. Easy to read and yet very powerful for reflection.
The power tripper
Rafiq Hajat
2012-01-26, Issue 567
He changed our flag, With cavalier insouciance, He stood proudly to brag While we gaped in stunned trance, Like a rampant stag, It was the height of arrogance, He changes our laws with seeming impunity; He twists them to suit his ends, He c...
2011: End of the beginning in Swaziland?
Africa Contact
2012-01-18, Issue 566
A new book documents the struggle for democracy in Swaziland in the past year, highlighting the historic 12 April protests in the absolute monarchy in southern Africa.
Sudan’s shifting frontier
A review of ‘Sudan looks East: China, India and the politics of Asian alternatives’
Stephen Marks
2012-01-18, Issue 566
This collection of essays take a broader perspective beyond oil to look at the impact of the sector and of Asian partners on the rest of Sudan’s economy, society and politics.
Zimbabwe: Book Cafe and Mannenberg to close
Paul Brickhill
Book Cafe and Mannenberg
2011-12-22, Issue 564
Harare’s iconic music and performing arts centre will close its doors to the public in Fife Avenue Shopping Mall. It will be moved to new premises.
‘Time to Reclaim Nigeria’
Kwesi Pratt Jnr
2011-12-14, Issue 563
‘Time To Reclaim Nigeria’ is an excellent collection of essays which reveal the Nigerian reality, but also point to the fact that another reality of a society founded on the principles of social justice and meaningful democracy is possible, Kwesi Pratt Jnr writes.
Language of literature: The African Francophone novel
A review of ‘Indigenization of Language in the African Francophone Novel: A New Literary Canon’
Ken Walibora Waliaula
2011-12-08, Issue 562
Peter Vakunta’s new book, writes Ken Walibora Waliaula, ‘is remarkable both in its analysis of primary texts and synthesis of various strands of theoretical and critical debates on the core and inexhaustible question of the language of African literature’.
Final Declaration of filmmakers
Meeting of filmmakers from Africa, the Caribbean and their diasporas
2011-12-01, Issue 560
The first Encounter of Filmmakers from Africa, the Caribbean and their diasporas, spanning nine African countries and 18 countries in Latin America, North America and the Caribbean was held in Havana, Cuba, in September.
Somewhere to aim for
Hannah Gibson
2011-12-01, Issue 560
Sudanese-Italian singer/songwriter Amira Kheir’s ‘mesmerising’ first album ‘comes from a place of gritty determination and commitment by the artist to her art. And it may be that we can all learn something from that determination,’ writes Hannah Gibson.
Toronto is ready for its artistic renaissance
Kemba King
2011-11-29, Issue 560
Artists have been gathering in Toronto to share their varied experiences and talents and to network as people of colour living in the diaspora. Next week they launch a movement billed as a wave of cultural and artistic collaborations.
African folklore: Tradition and transformation
A review of 'The Uncoiling Python: South African Storytellers and Resistance'
Peter Wuteh Vakunta
2011-11-23, Issue 559
Harold Scheub’s new book on oral literature 'is a treasure trove of information for both the casual and the experienced reader', writes Peter Wuteh Vakunta.
State of the nation, according to Kudzi Chiurai
Charles Nhamo Rupare
2011-11-09, Issue 557
Armed with a brush and a strong desire for change, exiled Zimbabwean artist Kudzi has become something of a legend in the niche world of pan-African urban culture, writes Charles Nhamo Rupare.
Music, language and human rights in Cameroon
The voices of Elwood, Valsero and Lapiro
Peter Wuteh Vakunta
2011-11-10, Issue 557
Peter Wuteh Vakunta celebrates the works of three dissident Cameroonian musicians who are unafraid to tell President Paul Biya to his face about the sufferings of the people under his very long rule.
What makes Biya’s despotic regime tick
Review of ‘Au Cameroun de Paul Biya’
Peter Wuteh Vakunta
2011-10-27, Issue 554
Several books have been written in an attempt to capture Cameroonian President Paul Biya’s personality, and ‘the enigmatic aura that surrounds this African dictator’, but Fanny Pigeaud’s new account ‘surpasses them all’, writes Peter Wuteh Vakunta.
Rwanda 17 years later: what is the truth?
Gerald Caplan
2011-10-19, Issue 553
In this book review, Gerald Caplan takes a critical look at ‘Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence’, edited by Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf and published by University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 2011.
Review: ‘Fanonian Practices in South Africa’
Percy Mabandu
2011-10-19, Issue 553
Nigel Gibson’s book is a ‘refreshing and imaginative reading of Frantz Fanon’s groundbreaking thoughts regarding the theory and practice of revolutionary transformation,’ writes Percy Mabandu.
How to end domestic violence
Review of ‘Pulling the punches: Defeating domestic violence’
Ama Biney
2011-10-13, Issue 552
In this book, Luke Daniels explores the topical subject of domestic violence from the perspective of his own experience as a perpetrator. He links the vice to oppressive societal values and offers useful suggestions on how to build loving relationships within the home.
No court poet for Mugabe
A review of Tendai Mwanaka’s ‘Voices in Exile’
Philo Ikonya
2011-10-13, Issue 552
Court poets sung praise to power and excesses’ but Tendai Mwanaka ‘speaks truth to power directly’, writes Philo Ikonya in a review of a recent collection of works by the Zimbabwean writer, ‘filled with strong and open political poetry.’
Brazil’s Cotton Project: Alternatives do succeed
Review of ‘Cotton, Computers and Citizenship’
David Sogge
2011-09-28, Issue 550
‘For students and practitioners of hands-on development efforts, this handsomely designed and clearly written book merits attention as an illustration of what is possible, indeed what may be better done, outside the foreign aid system and its exhausted orthodoxies,’ writes David Sogge.
We got rid of the dictator, not dictatorship
Review of ‘Defeating dictators: Fighting Tyranny in Africa and Around the World’
Peter Wuteh Vakunta
2011-09-29, Issue 550
Peter Wuteh Vakunta seems convinced that George B. N. Ayittey has written ‘a blueprint for oppositional militancy, a veritable modus operandi for undoing dictators in the contemporary world’. He thinks it is a must read for every student of African politics.
‘That looming presence of life and death’
Interview with Professor Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Roland Bankole Marke
2011-09-21, Issue 548
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, professor of English and Creative Writing at Penn State University, prize-winning poet and vocal survivor of the Liberian civil war, speaks to Roland Bankole Marke about her work.
'Manilal Ambalal Desai'
The Stormy Petrel
Zarina Patel
2011-09-19, Issue 547
Zarina Patel a historian and activist provides here a well-researched work on Manilal Desai, one of the foremost political leaders of Kenya. She provides kaleidoscopic images of Manilal Desai's life in South Gujarat and eventual migration to Kenya in...
Zimbabwe's Book Cafe wins 2011 Prince Claus Award
Pamberi Trust
2011-09-15, Issue 547
Zimbabwe's Book Café, flagship venue of Pamberi Trust, is a laureate of 2011 Prince Claus Awards. These prestigious global awards in culture are presented annually to individuals and organisations for outstanding achievement in culture and the positive effect of their work on the wider cultural or social field.
'I Am Because We Are: African Wisdom in Image and Proverb'
Betty Press
2011-09-15, Issue 547
Betty Press has published a book of 125 of her black and white photographs of African daily life, combined with related proverbs collected by Annetta Millar over more than 30 years. The book aims to 'make a significant educational and artistic contribution to the appreciation and understanding of African culture and society'.
'The Non-Linearity of Peace Processes'
Theory and Practice of Systemic Conflict Transformation
Berghof Conflict Research
2011-09-15, Issue 547
This recently published collection of essays, edited by Daniela Körppen, Norbert Ropers and Hans J. Giessmann, aims to link the most recent debates in the peacebuilding field with various systemic discourses. It is the 'first comprehensive volume analysing the value added by integrating systemic thinking into peacebuilding theory and practice.'
Achieving economic, social and cultural rights
Review of ‘Haki Zetu: Economic, social and cultural rights in practice’
Hakim Mbanzamihigo
2011-09-06, Issue 546
In a review of ‘Haki Zetu: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Practice’, Hakim Mbanzamihigo writes that the ‘handbook could be a useful tool for the promotion of ESCR at the most local level’.
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