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Friday, March 9, 2018
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CONTENTS: 1. Features  2. Announcements


Features


"Don’t stop! Keep pressing for progress"

Dinah Musindarwezo

On this year's International Women's Day, Dinah Musindarwezo, Executive Director of FEMNET, calls on us to continue fighting for women's rights and to do so with the clarity and tenacity that will finally end all forms of discrimination against women and girls and sustainably instigate gender equality across all spheres.
 

 

Reflection of this year’s International Women’s Day

Faiza Jama Mohamed

As the world celebrates this year’s International Women’s Day, Faiza Jama Mohamed, who has immensely contributed to the
struggles for African women’s rights for many decades. 

 

Agrarian reform is needed to slay apartheid’s land demons

Aisha Bahadur

The controversial announcement by the African National Congress that land will be expropriated without compensation has raised contentions on land reform in South Africa. Land is symbolic of the discontent at post-apartheid transformation but it is real agrarian reform to improve income and livelihoods that is desperately needed for the black majority that are living below the poverty line. 

 

Poor black South Africans are ready for real land reform, but who will benefit

Boaventura Monjane

The South African parliament has voted for a motion to amend the constitution that will allow the government to expropriate private land without compensation. However, a true resolution of the land question must be in accordance with the needs of those who work and live off the land. This means the destruction of all existing
tribal and feudal relations in the rural areas and the nationalisation of the land.
 
 

Remembering Nyakane Tsolo: The true history of Sharpeville must be told

Thando Sipuye

Post-1994 South Africa has a theatrical crisis of selective amnesia and partisan remembering of history. History telling, whether at school, university, in the media or public celebrations and commemorative events, is biased towards a singular political trajectory and one particular school of thought that is portrayed as the sole agents of the socio-economic and political transformations that have apparently occurred in the past 24 years. 
 
 

Black Panther and the problem of the black radical

The article critiques Black Panther movie’s narrative as dictating the terms of black people’s responses to systematic violence. It does this by critically examining the imagery and story around ancestral connections. I argue that the movie is used to craft a modern colonial imagination of Africa’s future. I delve into the symbolisms in this movie and analyse them in light of the arguments made.
 

 

Why President Museveni won’t or can’t implement electoral reforms ordered by Uganda’s Supreme Court

This brief commentary seeks to explain why President Museveni will never carry out the necessary electoral reforms. To do so would amount to Museveni committing political suicide for he will lose all subsequent elections. As a strong believer in the zero-sum game theory, Museveni, as an experienced and seasoned manipulator, kleptocrat and dictator cannot permit electoral reforms that will limit his current advantages in successfully rigging presidential and parliamentary elections. Fundamentally, Museveni is in power not because of the electoral process. It is because of his military victory and control over the National Resistance Army (NRA), his personal army.
 
 

One-man rule in China: Africa should be worried

Charles Mwewa

Power is sweet, even unavoidable, at times. Call him president, commander-in-chief, head of the security council, party chief, and chairman of everything from innocuous intra-governmental agencies to multi-lateral conglomerates baptised into China’s mainstream socialistic agenda; Xi Jinping may be brewing a
cocktail too detrimental to the future of democracy in Africa.
 
 

Chief imperialist power (USA) has to listen to Russia

Farooque Chowdhury

This article describes and comments on Russian President Vladimir
Putin’s 2018 “State of Nation Speech”. 
 

 

African traders in China: is the honeymoon over?

Daouda Cissé

Since 2016, news about African traders leaving China has spread. According to analysts, the world commodity price drop rather than China’s economic restructuring is a contributing factor in making African traders leave China. 


 

 

Interview with Her Excellency Hanna Simon, Ambassador of the Republic of Eritrea to France

Hanna Simon

In this interview, Her Excellency Hanna Simon, Ambassador of the Republic of Eritrea to France talks to Pambazuka News correspondent, Sarraounia Mangou Tete, in Paris on wide-ranging issues, key among which include the sanctions imposed on this young horn of Africa nation by Western imperialist powers.
 

 

Buhari and transforming Nigeria’s military

Olurotimi Osha

Although the Nigerian military repeatedly overthrew civilian governments to combat corruption, its reign of terror was wasteful and institutionalised corruption in Nigeria left the country more divided than ever. To build a world-class military that Nigerians deserve, President Buhari, a former military officer, must first purge the military of corruption.
 

   Announcement


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