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At the Heart of Resistance

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Made up of footage gathered in Zimbabwe, At The Heart of Resistance captures the spirit of a unique campaigning group - Women of Zimbabwe Arise - whose clarion call is 'The power of love can conquer the love of power'.

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This is a call for applications for volunteer researchers for the Southern Refugee Legal Aid Network (SLRAN), a new FAHAMU global project.The SLRAN project is co-ordinated by Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond. Find out more (pdf file)

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Where is Uhuru?Issa G. Shivji (2009) Where is Uhuru?.

Neoliberalism promised to correct multiple distortions in the African postcolonial environment, pledging to engineer liberalisation and expand democratic space. But following decades of unrealised reforms, Issa G. Shivji asks Where is Uhuru?

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Pambazuka broadcasts feature audio and video content with cutting edge commentary and debate from social justice movements across the continent.

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AU MONITOR

This site has been established by Fahamu to provide regular feedback to African civil society organisations on what is happening with the African Union.

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Africa: The impacts of climate change in Africa

2008-11-28, Issue 408

Climate change is a global phenomenon that affects different populations around the world in different ways. In South Africa, for example, there are situations caused by global warming, as in the rest of the African continent. Siziwe Khanyile, member...

Women majority in parliament

Rwandan women come out on top in parliamentary elections

Contact FM

2008-11-13, Issue 406

This programme looks at the significance of the recent Rwandan elections which made history as women gained a majority in parliament - what do ordinary Rwandan women think of and expect from this success and what inspiration or message for the rest o...

Ubud Writers and Readers Festival - Shalini Gidoomal

2008-10-24, Issue 403

Shalini Gidoomal is a freelance journalist, writer, businesswoman and inveterate traveller, born, and currently living in Nairobi. She has worked extesively on various UK and international magazines and newspapers....

Black History Month - Interview with Horace Campbell

Contact FM

2008-08-07, Issue 392

The final interview of the Black History Month series is with Horace Campbell, professor of African American studies at Syracuse University, and author of Rasta and Resistance, from Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney, and Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of Liberation....

'Resource Intensity, Knowledge and Development: Insights from Africa and South America'

2008-07-30, Issue 391

Are Africa and South America destined to be 'resource-rich underachievers', or can knowledge intensification change all that? 'Resource Intensity, Knowledge and Development: Insights from Africa and South America' was launched at the Cape Town Book F...

Black History Month - Interview with Dan Lyndon

Contact FM

2008-07-23, Issue 390

Black History Month is also celebrated each October in the United Kingdom, which has had a substantial black population since the 16th century. In this interview Contact FM talks to Dan Lyndon, history teacher and member of the British and Asian Stud...

Black History Month - Interview with Patricia Sluby

Contact FM

2008-07-18, Issue 389

The history of African American science is still today an area not widely known about. Contact FM take a brief plunge into this history talking with writer Patricia Sluby, author of The Inventive Spirit of African Americans: Patented Ingenuity....

Black History Month - Interview with Gabrilla Ballard

Contact FM

2008-07-03, Issue 385

In this episode Contact FM leave Chicago and go down South, where they talk with Gabrilla Ballard, singer, songwriter and activist, who tells them what it is like living in New Orleans after the massive 2005 flooding....

Information for change

2008-06-25, Issue 384

This podcast examines the promise of new media and which features extracts from the proceedings at the Information for Change workshop held recently in Cape Town, including the keynote address delivered by Firoze Manji of Fahamu....

Black History Month - Interview with Floyd Webb

Contact FM

2008-06-25, Issue 384

Taking a closer look at the origins of Black History Month, Contact FM talks to Floyd Webb, film-maker and web designer based in Chicago, about the relevance of Black History Month and his predictions for the future....

Zimbabwe: Amandla! interviews Tsvangirai

2008-06-27, Issue 384

Amandla interviewed Morgan Tsvangirai MDC president on the current impasse in Zimbabwe and on the future policies an MDC orientated government would like to see implemented. Tsvangirai sheds light on their current strategy of seeking a negotiated set...

The situation in Zimbabwe

2008-06-19, Issue 382

FAMEDEV is deeply concerned by the situation in Zimbabwe. As a result of this concern, FAMEDEV dedicated 35 minutes in their online radio to Zimbabwe and its current social, economic and political events. On this programme which was aired under our A...

Charles Taylor and the assasination of Sankara

2008-06-19, Issue 382

This radio interview addresses the question of Charles Taylor's possible involvement in the assassination of Thomas Sankara....

Anti-Immigrant Violence in South Africa

2008-05-30, Issue 376

More than 18,000 people have fled xenophobic violence around Cape Town since mobs began attacking foreigners and burning and looting their homes and businesses one week ago. Thousands more were chased out of their homes in the central Gauteng Provinc...

Haki Yetu

2008-04-09, Issue 361

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

Contact FM

2008-03-27, Issue 357

Ugandan Women Speak about Women’s Protocol

2008-03-06, Issue 351

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, Issue 349

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, Issue 345

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, Issue 343

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, Issue 341

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, Issue 339

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, Issue 339

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 uses the image of the Kenya national flag to appeal for peace.

Neema Ngwatilo Mawiyoo

2008-01-11, Issue 335

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, Issue 332

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, Issue 330

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, Issue 329

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, Issue 324

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

Musicians against xenophobia

2007-09-13, Issue 319

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, Issue 319

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...

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