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Publications
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April 15, 2009 in San Francisco
2009-04-03, Issue 426
On April 27, 2009 relatives of Ken Saro-Wiwa and other MOSOP members will bring Shell to trial in New York for the company’s complicity in the death of the Ogoni 9. Join us at this benefit for Justice in Nigeria Now (JINN) to support JINN while socia...
Class struggle and resistance in Africa
2009-03-26, Issue 425
The African continent has been central to the project of capitalist globalization, and the dominance of Western economic and geopolitical interests continues to profoundly shape Africa's internal dynamics in the postcolonial period. This collection o...
Class Struggle and Resistance in Africa
2009-03-20, Issue 424
The African continent has been central to the project of capitalist globalization, and the dominance of Western economic and geopolitical interests continues to profoundly shape Africa's internal dynamics in the postcolonial period. This collection o...
HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and Law
Network for Justice and Democracy
2009-03-04, Issue 422
The Network for Justice and Democracy, a Nigerian based NGO dedicated promoting and defending reproductive rights, gender equality and advancing the cause of democracy through advocacy, education and research, is pleased to announce its publication t...
International Perspectives and Nigerian Laws on Human Trafficking
Network for Justice and Democracy
2009-03-04, Issue 422
The book is intended to serve as a practical aid to the understanding of the problem of trafficking in persons and aims to encourage effective actions taken by the various international, regional and national initiatives to curb the menace of human trafficking. It also contains an exhaustive list of Appendices on international conventions, treaties and national legislation on human trafficking to serve as useful reference materials for research....
Reproductive Health and Rights (African Perspectives and Legal Issues in Nigeria)
Network for Justice and Democracy
2009-03-04, Issue 422
This book is produced on behalf of the Network for Justice and Democracy, a non-governmental organization that is dedicated to the promotion of reproductive rights, women empowerment, advancing the cause of democracy and access of women to justice in Nigeria. The book documents laws and policies, which impact women's...
Global: New Tactics in Human Rights: A Resource for Practitioners
2009-02-27, Issue 421
New Tactics are pleased to announce that our workbook, ‘New Tactics in Human Rights: A Resource for Practitioners’ is now available for download in Arabic. The New Tactics’ book is a collection of 100 innovative tactics being used by the internationa...
Global: 200 Years Later…
Awarded new publication on African resistance against the Slave Trade
2009-02-05, Issue 418
This catalogue was published on the occasion of the Event Series “200 Years Later…”, commemorating the 200 year anniversary of the official Abolition of the Maafa (Transatlantic Slave Trade), Berlin, 23-30.11.2008. It was awarded UNESCO's Toussaint L...
Africa: Africa Policy Outlook 2009
2009-02-05, Issue 418
The outpouring of emotion across Africa when President Barack Obama was sworn in had as much to do with his heritage as with the possibility that he might reverse some of the Bush administration's disastrous policies. President George W. Bush trumpet...
Switzerland and Slavery
2009-02-06, Issue 418
After some five years of research, Hans Fässler's book on Switzerland's links with slavery and the slave trade was published in 2005 under the title "Reise in Schwarz-Weiss. Schweizer Ortstermine in Sachen Sklaverei" (Rotpunkt-Verlag, Zurich). It has...
'A New Paradigm of the African State: Fundi wa Afrika' by Mueni wa Muiu & Guy Martin
2009-01-09, Issue 414
The authors introduce a new paradigm to study the African state, Fundi wa Afrika. According to this paradigm, the current African predicament may be explained by the systematic destruction of African states and the dispossession, exploitation, and ma...
Africa: New Amandla! out in hard copy
South Africa: From financial crisis to anti-capitalist alternatives
2008-10-18, Issue 402
In previous issues Amandla! introduced a feature called ‘It’s the Economy Stupid, echoing former US President Bill Clinton. We are of the view that coming to terms with the economic situation is crucial to successful political strategy. We also did t...
Fahamu New Titles: Ending Aid Dependence, by Yash Tandon
2008-10-03, Issue 399
In his new book Ending Aid Dependence, Yash Tandon reviews the possibilities for change in the architecture of aid. The author explores the extent to which many developing countries reliant on aid wish to escape dependence, and yet are constrained fr...
Pan-Africanism and African Nationalism
2008-09-07, Issue 395
The first edition of this publication was based on the proceedings of the 17th All African Students’ Conference (AASC) held in 2005 in Windhoek, Namibia, which series began in 1988. It covered the major issues arising for the unity movement from the ...
Sierra Leone: A framework for citizenship education
2008-09-12, Issue 395
This book has been written to lay the foundations of a single curriculum framework for citizenship education in Sierra Leone. It is a direct result of a consultative process aimed at complementing and consolidating a number of citizenship-related ini...
Global: September issue of Alliance
2008-09-12, Issue 395
The September issue of Alliance, just published, has a special feature on ‘philanthrocapitalism’ and international funding; guest editors are Michael Edwards and Olivier Kayser. The new issue also has an interview with Luis Ubiñas, President of the F...
Journal of African Cinemas
2008-09-12, Issue 395
The Journal of African Cinemas will explore the interactions of visual and verbal narratives in African film. It recognizes the shifting paradigms that have defined and continue to define African cinemas. Identity and perception are interrogated in r...
Africa: African Research and Resource Forum (ARRF) - New Path
Call for articles
2008-09-13, Issue 395
The New Path: The African forum for intellectual thought is published quarterly by the African Research and Resource Forum (ARRF) and provides a forum for innovative thinking about our common future and about how we need to tackle the most intractabl...
IkamvaYouth's photography and poetry book FOR SALE!
2008-09-13, Issue 395
Through Our Eyes, Ikamvanites' book of photography and poetry has just been released! The photographs and poems showcase some of IkamvaYouth's best creative talent, and provide unique windows into the lives of South African township youth....
Ending Aid Dependence: New book from Fahamu Books
2008-09-04, Issue 394
In September 2008, ministers from over 100 countries, heads of bilateral and multilateral development agencies, donor organisations, and civil society organisations from around the world will gather in Accra for the Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effe...
Gangs, Politics & Dignity in Cape Town
2008-07-24, Issue 390
This is a vivid study of the day-to-day experience of living in a working class neighbourhood on the Cape Flats. It deals with issues of criminality and the search for dignity in a harsh, economically depressed urban landscape. Gangs are the main foc...
Awaaz Magazine
2008-07-02, Issue 385
The latest issue of Awaaz Magazine features a 40 page tribute to Apa Pant, India's first post independence envoy to Kenya. Coming into Kenya at the height of the st...
Tunakataa! We say no!
New publication from Vita Books for 2008
2008-06-06, Issue 378
In history, people reach a stage when they say “no” to oppression and exploitation. During the colonial period in Kenya, the Mau Mau liberation movement developed appropriate strategies and tactics of saying “no” to colonialism”. Besides armed stru...
Human Sexuality in Africa: Beyond Reproduction
2008-04-10, Issue 361
The Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Centre has recently published a book “Human Sexuality in Africa: Beyond Reproduction”. The book is structured into four parts comprising of some papers presented at the quarterly ARSRC organized Understanding Hu...
African Sacred Groves: Ecological Dynamics and Social Change
2008-02-27, Issue 349
African sacred groves are often described as the remains of primeval forests, ethnographic curiosities, and cultural relics from a static pre-colonial past. Their continuing importance in African societies, however, shows that this 'relic theory' is ...
Slavery in The Great Lakes Region of East Africa
2008-02-15, Issue 345
This new book from James Currey publishers looks at the perceptions of one of the main themes of African history: slavery. There was no single form of slavery and the line between enslaved and non-slave labour was fine. This book challenges the asser...
War in Pre-colonial Eastern Africa
2008-02-15, Issue 345
This new title from James Currey publishers examines the nature and objectives of violence in the region in the 19th century. It is particularly concerned with highland Ethiopia and the Great Lakes. It will be of interest to those interested in pre-c...
Cyril Ramaphosa
2008-02-15, Issue 345
Will Cyril Ramaphosa run for President at the end of 2008? He is one of the most popular political figures in South Africa, admired both within the ANC and outside. He came to prominence as the general secretary of the mineworkers' union in the 1980s...
Constructive Engagement?
Chester Crocker & American Policy in South Africa,
2008-02-15, Issue 345
The idea of 'constructive engagement' is forwarded by governments as a method whereby pressure can be brought to bear on these countries to improve their record on human rights, while diplomatic and economic contacts can be maintained. But does this ...
New From James Currey Publishers: Imperial Formations
2007-11-06, Issue 327
Is there only one model for empire, based on European empires? How might the critique of European empires serve to understand imperial forms elsewhere? This collection by Ann Laura Stoler, Carole McGranahan and Peter C. Perdue moves beyond the Euro-c...
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