Dorothy-Grace Guerrero and Firoze Manji (ed) (2008) China’s New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective. 
Obituaries
RSS FeedNgugi wa Mirii - Africa has lost a dreamer
Wanjiku Wa Ngugi (2008-05-05)
Wanjiku Wa Ngugi remembers Ngugi Wa Mirii
Homage to Aimé Césaire
Lazare Ki-Zerbo (2008-05-02)
Lazare Ki-Zerbo pays tribute to the life and work of Aimé Césaire
Ivan Toms found dead
2008-03-27
Stunned friends have remembered Ivan Toms as a larger than life character who had tremendous energy and huge passion for the country he loved and served. Toms was on Tuesday morning found dead in his Mowbray, Cape Town home after he failed to pitch f...
A Tribute to Nyar Okuyu - Daughter of the Kikuyu
Sukuma Kenya (2008-03-12)
Fidelis Wainaina passed away from cancer as our country's own cancer dug itself deeper into our entrails. Personally, I think she lost her faith - not in her God - but in humanity. She had worked relentlessly for over 15 years in rural Luo land to br...
Civil Rights Activist Johnnie Carr Dies
2008-02-27
Johnnie Carr, who joined childhood friend Rosa Parks in the historic Montgomery bus boycott and became a prominent civil rights activist over the past half century, has died. She was 97. Baptist Health hospital spokeswoman Melody Ragland said Carr di...
Tony Hall - 3 June 1936 - 31 January 2008
A life lived from the hearty (2008-02-15)
Tony Hall lived his life from the heart. He had a heart that embraced a life-long commitment to human freedom, absorbed large doses of self-sacrifice and enveloped those whom he loved and respected. In some kind of serenely symbolic and beautifully p...
Norman Reynolds
2007-12-19
Pambazuka is saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Norman Reynolds, erstwhile contributing author to the newsletter. He passed away on Saturday, December 15, 2007 following a hiking accident in the Drakensburg mountains. There will be a memorial se...
When a Pan-Africanist Library Burns: Kanyama Chiume, 1929-2007
Steve Sharra (2007-11-30)
When in 2003 I wrote on the Malawi discussion listserv Nyasanet, asking if anybody knew the whereabouts of Kanyama Chiume, somebody responded and said Kanyama had sold his property around 1996 and left Malawi for good, announcing that he would never ...
South African Journalist Margaret Legum passes away
2007-11-05
Margaret Legum, best known for her call to sanction apartheid South Africa, died in Cape Town at the age of 74 on November 1. She died of complications arising from a cancer-related operation. She leaves behind two sisters, three daughters, five gran...
Cyprian Ekwensi, famed Nigerian author passes away
2007-11-07
One of Nigeria’s most famous authors, Cyprian Ekwensi has passed away after an undisclosed ailment. Cyprian Ekwensi was aged 84 years and has been a doyen of the Nigerian literature scene for over 50 years....
David Martin - 40 years of service to African liberation
2007-09-21
David Martin was a writer and photographer, and later in life, a publisher. He was a rigorous researcher and investigative writer who exposed the calamity and cost of South African economic and military destabilization in southern Africa in the 1980s...
Paying tribute to Sajida Khan (1952-2007)
Patrick Bond and Rehana Dada (2007-07-17)
Paying tribute to Sajida Khan (1952-2007), who threatened a moneyspinner at the continent’s largest rubbish dump – at the cost of her life.
Tribute to Sembene Ousmane
2007-06-13
One of Africa’s most respected and famous filmmakers Ousmane Sembene, also known as the Father of African Cinema, passed away on 9 June. Messages of condolence have been pouring into the office of the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers (FEPACI), an institution that Sembene co-founded in 1969....
Farewell Sembene
Firoze Manji (2007-06-14)
It is with an angry sadness that we learned of this giant's death over the weekend. If there was one book that I could name that had such a profound effect on my thinking, it was God's Bits of Woods. We named our son after Sembene Ousmane. We have lo...
Fathia Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah's widow died in Cairo (2007-06-07)
After a prolonged illness, Fathia Nkrumah, widow of Kwame Nkrumah, died in hospital in Cairo, Egypt...
A giant has moved on …: Tribute to Archie Mafeje
Adebayo Olukoshi, Executive Secretary CODESRIA (2007-04-02)
Wednesday, 28 March, 2007 will go down as a sad day among social researchers all over Africa and beyond: It was the day Professor Archie Mafeje passed away in Pretoria in what was a most quiet exit that has left the very many among us whom he touched...
The Great Iroko has Moved On
Adebayo Olukoshi, Executive Secretary, CODESRIA (2006-12-07)
The Great Iroko has Moved On: Joseph Ki-Zerbo, 1922 – 2006 The Council for the development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) regrets to announce the death in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on 04 December, 2006, of one of Africa’s most i...
John Moru, Another World Is Still Possible!
Emman Ozoemena (2006-10-26)
On the first anniversary of the late John Moru who lost his life in the Bellview plane crash on October 22, 2005 at Lisa, Ogun State, Emman Ozoemena writes that Moru, a social activist and an anti-poverty campaigner, was the Secretary of the Steering Committee of the Nigerian Social Forum and would have been happy to participate in the 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya.
Wanjiru Kihoro: Sister, Comrade, Friend
Wangui wa Goro (2006-10-19)
It is hard to write about Wanjiru in the yesterday. Her indefatigable, vibrant energy, her love of freedom, justice and equality defy that. I met Wanjiru in those grim Nyayo years and did not realise what a huge impact she was going to have not o...
Wanjiru Kihoro: an activist, feminist, patriot, visionary, leader, friend
2006-10-19
Dr.Wanjiru Kihoro’s brave battle from the coma which she has been fighting since January, 24 2003 came to an end at 10pm on Thursday October 12 at Kenyatta National Hospital. Dr. Kihoro went into a coma following the Busia plane crash in which thre...
Chachage Seithy Loth Chachage
Firoze Manji (2006-07-12)
Pambazuka News is deeply saddened to learn of the untimely death of Chachage S.L. Chachage. Africa has lost a comrade and fighter for freedom, someone who has not only contributed to the struggle for justice and emancipation, but has also been a majo...
Chachage Seithy Loth Chachage Lives On in Our Daily Struggles
Adebayo Olukoshi, Executive Secretary, CODESRIA (2006-07-13)
The news of the sudden death on Sunday of our esteemed colleague and comrade-in-arms, Professor Chachage Seithy Loth Chachage came to us in the CODESRIA Secretariat as a rude shock that will take us a while to come to terms with. During the last two ...
Buriani Kamaradi
Issa Shivji (2006-07-13)
Ndugu yangu Rafiki yangu Kamaradi Chachage: Nani kasema umetuacha? Eti umefariki! Kwani mwili ndiyo maisha? Maisha ni fikra. Maisha ni vitendo. Maisha ni ubinadamu. Fikra zako, Vitendo vyako, Ubinadamu wako, Utadumu. Le...
The meek shall also inherit the mineral rights!
Mike Neocosmos (2006-07-13)
I lost a brother today, a friend, ndugu, comrade, a human being. I always thought I would see him again... Sadness overwhelms me. He walked through life his head held high speaking up against injustice and laughing at the stupidity of o...
Global: WHO chief dies
2006-05-25
Dr. Lee Jong Wook, the head of the World Health Organization whose gamble to greatly expand AIDS treatment to the poor around the world helped give new life to hundreds of thousands of people, died suddenly Monday, two days after emergency surgery to...
Bigger Than Fear: Remembering Ellen Kuzwayo
Shailja Patel (2006-05-17)
Ellen Kuzwayo, South African activist, writer, feminist, icon, died 3 weeks ago. Obituaries and tributes to her ran in every major media outlet on the African continent, not to mention the New York Times, Washington Post and Britain’s Guardian newspaper. So what can I possibly add to the chorus?...
John La Rose (1927-2006)
Jenny Bourne (2006-03-08)
1 March 2006 - A stalwart of Black struggle in Britain, John La Rose, has died. As a writer, publisher and political organiser, his contribution to the development of Black cultural expression in the UK cannot be rivalled. It is with great sadness that the staff of the Institute of Race Relations heard the news of John's death on 28 February from a heart attack. As a member of IRR's Council, and its Chairman in the early 1970s, he helped to guide the organisation during a particularly turbulent time in its history; its transformation from an establishment body into a radical think-tank. ...
The Eagle has flown away: A tribute to Dr Bekololari Ransome-Kuti
Sonny Onyegbula (2006-03-02)
It was with sadness that I learnt of the death of Dr Bekololari Ransome-Kuti. Beko died at the time in our life as a nation that we needed him more that ever before. His contributions to the enthronement of democracy, respect for the rule of law and human rights were monumental. He was both a leader and a follower. His passion for fairness, justice and due process were legendary. His love for the ordinary Nigeria was unimaginable. No wonder his doors at his Imariam close residence in Lagos were open to all and sundry. His loss is a national loss and a personal one for me and for most of us....