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UAACC Heal the Community Tour 2012
Charlotte Hill O’Neal
2012-05-16, Issue 585
Charlotte Hill O’Neal aka Mama C, visual and spoken word artist, musician, filmmaker, long time community activist and co Director of United African Alliance Community Center UAACC based in Tanzania, East Africa is pleased to announce that plans for UAACC Heal the Community Tour 2012 have begun! Mama Charlotte will be visiting the United States starting from late September for up to three months. She will be available to visit your community or school to speak on more than two decades of UAACC outreach in America and East Africa including the UAACC Leaders of Tomorrow Children’s Home program; screen unique and inspiring films; perform her music and poetry and spread the inspiration and love! To make arrangements to bring Mama Charlotte to your school or community contact her at: mamacharlottesmusic2@yahoo.com Mama Charlotte was born in Kansas City, KS in 1951 and has lived in Africa with her husband Pete O’Neal, founder of both UAACC and Leaders of Tomorrow Children’s Home (LTCH), since 1970. She is the mother of two children, Malcolm and Ann Wood ‘Stormy’.
All love begins with seeing
Poetry and justice for all
Shailja Patel
2012-05-17, Issue 585
Shailja Patel’s unique artistry is a provocative global mash-up of genres. She’s a slam poetry champion and star of her award-winning, one-woman play “Migritude” about the intricate webs of global migration and cultural identity. As an acclaimed poet of South Asian and Kenyan ancestry, through her fearless art she embodies the authentic voices of women, South Asians and Africans who are otherwise seldom heard. For her, the ultimate destination of poetry is justice -- too heart-breakingly beautiful to be denied. Listen Now Subscribe. It's free! Subscribe to the Bioneers Radio Series podcast. http://www.cyberears.com/podcasts/podcast_5566.xml
Africans in China
Adams Bodomo
2012-05-10, Issue 584
‘Africans in China’ is the first book-length study of Africans travelling to China and forming communities there. Employing a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods involving prolonged interaction with approximately 800 Africans across six main Chinese cities - Guangzhou, Yiwu, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Macau - Professor Adams Bodomo (The University of Hong Kong) has constructed sociolinguistic and sociocultural profiles that illuminate the everyday life of Africans in China. This unprecedented book provides insights into understanding issues such as why Africans go to China, what they do there, how they communicate with their Chinese hosts, what opportunities and problems they encounter in their China sojourn, and how they are received by the Chinese state. Learn more about the book, which was published by Cambria Press in 2012, at http://www.cambriapress.com/books/9781604977905.cfm Watch a six-minute [url= Video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkFa_yG9jrg]Video Clip[/url]. * Adams Bodomo is the African Studies Programme Director at the HKU School of Humanities.
China and Angola: A marriage of convenience?
Marcus Power and Ana Cristina Alves (eds)
2012-04-05, Issue 580
© Pambazuka PressThe first book to focus on China’s involvement in Angola presents perspectives from both countries.
Podcast on 'African Awakenings' book launch
2012-04-05, Issue 580
This is a podcast prepared by Mbonisi Zikhali based on the launch of the African Awakenings book that we held last night in Ottawa hosted by Octopus Books, Inter Pares, Carlton University and Friends of Pambazuka.
On ‘A wife’s neck saved’
Akwasi Aidoo
2012-03-14, Issue 576
‘Beyond the all-too-familiar message of violence against women, Amadi's epigram-clad poem is like the very best straight out of a Holy Book.’
A wife's neck saved
George Chijioke Amadi
2012-03-14, Issue 576
‘Beyond the all-too-familiar message of violence against women, Amadi's epigram-clad poem is like the very best straight out of a Holy Book’- Akwasi Aidoo...
New book: ‘Remunicipalisation: Putting Water Back in Public Hands’
2012-03-15, Issue 576
New book uncovers private failures leading cities to take back control of water worldwide.
Paper on Philippine water sector identifies critical situations; presents models for water service provision
2012-03-15, Issue 576
The authors of the paper ‘Treading Troubled Waters’ speak of the critical situations faced by the water sector on the strength of a process that involved partnerships, network of academic institutions, peoples and non-government organizations, and local communities. This process undertaken through the Development Roundtable Series (DRTS) program initiated and anchored by Focus on the Global South-Philippines, involved consultations, roundtable discussion, research and case studies across the country. These activities have produced both anecdotal information and hard data from the field and existing documents.
Opening Pandora's Box
New Report Exposes Land Grabbing by the Extractive Industries & the Devastating Impact this is having on Earth
Gaia Foundation
2012-03-01, Issue 572
The rapid global expansion and acceleration of the extractive industries presents an unprecedented & devastating land grabbing threat, claims a new report being launched in Westminster. The Gaia Foundation’s report, “Opening Pandora’s Box – A New Wave of Land Grabbing by the Extractive Industries and the Devastating Impact on Earth” has been produced in collaboration with GRAIN, the London Mining Network (LMN) and others. It looks at the global trends, dynamics and impacts of the extractive industries on the planets ecosystems and communities.
Mining Deep
Morley Nkosi
Yash Tandon
2012-02-22, Issue 571
A new book scrutinises the labour structure of the South African mining industry over the last 350 years.
'Robert Mugabe: What Happened?'
National roll-out of new film in February 2012
2012-02-15, Issue 570
In parallel narratives Simon Bright tells the stories of Rhodesia’s transition to Zimbabwe and the personal journey of Robert Mugabe, using one to explain the other and finally suggesting why Mugabe chose the road he has. ...
‘Over The Years’
Louis Bankole Jones
Roland Bankole Marke
2012-02-15, Issue 570
Louis Bankole Jones, a medical doctor, points his homegrown radar toward a new vision and perspective in a collection of poems on Sierra Leone.
Review of ‘African Awakening: The Emerging Revolutions’
Gary Blank
2012-02-09, Issue 569
© Pambazuka PressThe collection of spirited essays issues a trenchant and timely challenge to the widespread assumption that the Arab Spring can be understood in splendid isolation from the rest of Africa.
5th Talent Campus Durban
Talent Campus Durban calls for filmmakers and film critics
2012-02-09, Issue 569
The event entices filmmakers to enhance skills, develop collaborations and interface with the dynamic future of the film industry in Africa and the world.
'The Help' disregards agency of black women
Liepollo Lebohang 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.
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