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Between the 25th of January and the 2nd of Feb 2008, the town of Butare, Rwanda, hosted its first International Arts Festival organized by the University Centre for Arts. Entitled ‘Arts Azimuts’. More...

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Haki Yetu

2008-04-09

Following is a video that the Kenyan media has 'censored' It is an artistic response to the situation our BELOVED thieves have put us in the song was recorded on 3rd Jan 2008. Some of the excuses by some of the media houses were that it has been over...

Arts Azimuts - International Arts Festival in Butare, Rwanda

ContactFM (2008-03-27)

Ugandan Women Speak about Women’s Protocol

2008-03-06

Marren Akatsa-Bukachi,Solome Nakaweesi-Kimbugwe and Patricia Munabi Babiiha speak to Firoze Manji about the challenges of persuading Uganda to ratify the AU Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa.

Interview with Peter Hallward

Peter Hallward (2008-02-28)

Peter Hallward, author of Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment, talks over the phone with Jacques Depelchin from the Ota Benga Alliance for Peace Healing and Dignity, and visiting Professor at the Centre for Afro-Oriental Studies at the Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, and Firoze Manji, founder and co-editor of Pambazuka News, about his book and the lessons of Haiti.

Interviews with women in south Kivu

2008-02-14

In this series of interviews, Rwanda’s Contact FM radio talks to activists in south Kivu fighting for justice for the women of Congo.

Interviews with women in north Kivu

Rwanda’s Contact FM radio talks to women in north Kivu in the forefront of fighting what has been described as “femicide” in eastern DRC. (2008-02-07)

In this series of interviews, Rwanda’s Contact FM radio talks to women in north Kivu in the forefront of fighting what has been described as “femicide” in eastern DRC.

"Sous les volcans"

Michael Gabriel Mudimbi (2008-01-31)

Prepared and presented by Michael Gabriel Mudimbi of Contact FM, "Sous les volcans" talks to women of the Kivus, the victims and the activists in an attempt to break the silence about what is happening to women in eastern DRC.

Kenya: Former anti-corruption czar speaks

2008-01-24

It was once a relatively stable African success story. Now Kenya has descended in to the sort of chaos which has often bedevilled many of its neighbours. The cause is December's disputed re-election of President Mwai Kibaki. African leaders continue ...

Post Election Violence in Kenya

2008-01-24

Since the December elections in Kenya an estimated 600 people have died as a result of the unrest, and another 100,000 at least have been displaced. The violence erupted after incumbent Mwai Kibaki was sworn into office in the midst of acusations th...

Flag and Future

Neema Ngwatilo Mawiyoo (2008-01-11)

Neema Ngwatilo Mawiyoo, a young writer and musician based in Nairobi,uses the image of the Kenya national flag to appeal for peace.

Uganda: Fighting for adequate livelihoods

2007-12-14

Women own only a small percentage of the world’s land, yet produce two-thirds of the food in developing countries. A a recent FAO-sponsored Technical Consultation on Gender, Property Rights and Livelihoods in the Era of AIDS (28-30 Nov 2007), in Rome, it was stated that women still account for 60% of all HIV infected adults living in sub-Saharan Africa....

I Stories

Gender Links (2007-11-29)

I Stories is a series of first hand accounts of gender violence from across Southern Africa produced by Gender Links for the Sixteen Days of Activism against Gender Violence.

Tanzania and the Protocol of the Rights of Women in Africa

Usu Mallya (2007-11-22)

Usu Mallya talks to George Njogopa about Tanzania and the Protocol of the Rights of Women in Africa.

Voudou Priestess Madame Evonne Auguste speaks to Pambazuka News

Madame Evonne Auguste (2007-10-18)

Voudou Priestess Madame Evonne Auguste spoke to Sokari Ekine last August, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Musicians against xenophobia

2007-09-13

Musicians from Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe are putting xenophobia on the cultural agenda in a musical initiative to get people talking about discrimination. South Africa, especially Johannesburg, is home to thousands of foreign Africans. S...

Global: George Monbiot on the history of direct action

2007-09-13

This World Development Movement podcast features George Monbiot, writer, broadcaster and academic, talking about the history of direct action – particularly relevant given the recent coverage of the climate change protestors near Heathrow this summer...

Rural Women's Radio

2007-09-06

As part of a three-part project with FAHAMU and local partners, CMFD is working with rural women in Southern, East and West Africa to produce radio/ podcast prgrammes about women's rights, especially related to rural women....

Africa: Taxing matters

2007-08-30

This programme considers net outflows of financial assets from Africa, the region with the fastest growth of millionaires in the world; and how the tax burden is being pushed back on to those who can least afford to pay.

Sudan: Darfur - Don't Turn Away

2007-08-09

Say ‘Darfur’, and many of us feel we just can’t confront the prolific slaughter and rape that is taking place there, in the African nation of Sudan. Yet those who don’t turn away will see an extreme example of how many of the world’s governments deal...

Police torture in Nigeria

Damien Ugwu (2007-08-02)

Damien Ugwu from the Nigerian Civil Liberties Organisation speaks to Sokari Ekine from Pambazuka News about endemic police torture in the Nigerian justice system.

The ravaging of Africa

Asad Ismi (2007-07-17)

The ravaging of Africa has been enriching Europe and North America for more than 500 years. First, European empires imposed slavery and colonialism on the continent. After 1945, the United States took over as the dominant neo-colonial power....

Madaraka Nyerere interview

Madaraka Nyerere (2007-07-19)

Madaraka Nyerere, son of former President of Tanzania Julius Nyerere talks to Adam Ma'anit from the New Internationalist magazine for Pambazuka News about the reasons why Nyerere's policies have been demolished by capitalism, and the relevance of his father's work for modern Africa and the women's rights movement.

Africa Today

2007-07-12

Amongst the finest regular radio programmes on Africa, and which are also available for listening online or for download as a podcast/audiofile, is Walter Turner's Africa Today at KPFA. The following are some of the recent programmes broadcast....

Mobile phone activism in South Africa

Sindy Mkhize (2007-07-06)

Sindy Mkhize from the Abahlali shackdwellers movement based in Durban, South Africa speaks to Sokari Ekine from Pambazuka News about the use of mobile phones in activism.

Interview with Madaraka Nyerere

Heidi Bachram & Adam Ma'anit (2007-06-29)

Madaraka Nyerere, son of former President of Tanzania Julius Nyerere talks to Adam Ma'anit from the New Internationalist magazine for Pambazuka News. In London to relaunch the Arusha Declaration with the Global Women's Strike, the document is the fou...

Charles Taylor trial

Stephen Rapp (2007-06-21)

Stephen Rapp, chief prosecutor at the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor speaks to Robtel Pailey from Pambazuka News about the complexities of the case.

Radical community radio in Soweto

Molefi Ndlovu (2007-06-07)

Molefi Ndlovu from the Center for Civil Society in Durban, South Africa speaks to Pambazuka News about the radical community radio project RASA FM in Soweto.

Freddy Macha speaks to Pambazuka News

Freddy Macha (2007-05-24)

Freddy Macha, Tanzanian writer and artist speaks to Robtel Pailey from Pambazuka News.

Environmental justice in Nigeria

Ifieniya Lott and Patterson Ogon (2007-05-10)

Ifieniya Lott and Patterson Ogon speak to Pambazuka News about the situation in the Niger Delta and what the future holds for environmental justice.

Firestone in Liberia

Kofi Woods and Ezekiel Pajibo (2007-04-26)

Ezekiel Pajibo and Kofi Woods speak to Pambazuka News about the role of Firestone tyre company in Liberia.

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