PAMBAZUKA NEWS 208: Global Call to Action against Poverty: Why I Wear White

Fahamu has been sent a great collection of books published in Australia by Spinifex Press, an award-winning independent press publishing innovative and controversial books across a wide variety of subject areas. Spinifex publishes fiction, poetry and non-fiction. The books include:

* Unity Dow: The Screaming of the Innocent
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EDITORIALS: Hellen Tombo, executive director of the Kenya Youth Education and Community Development Programme, issues a call for debt cancellation and trade justice on behalf of African children and youth
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS:
- Yassine Fall writes on Africa Day and the Global Call to Action Against Poverty
- Makeda Tsegaye asks why the international community hasn't made a fuss about the handling of recent elections by the Ethiopian government
- What out Africa! The ...read more

Since the defeat of apartheid, South African capital has begun a brutal march northwards that is reminiscent of a “Second Great Boer Trek”. South African supermarket chains have sprung up across Africa, as have cell phone companies, mining groups and even South African style water front developments. The next big sector being eyed by Afrikaner farmers is land, writes Issa Shivji.

Nature did not create a group of people with capital on one side and another group with only muscle-power...read more

In May elections, Ethiopian voters made their mark for change, but shortly after the elections the government declared a state of emergency, banned demonstrations and declared victory. Makeda Tsegaye questions why the international community has chose to remain silent about these actions. "Why is the hotly contested election in Ethiopia not getting even one third of the attention that the former Soviet Republic of Georgia received via popular media such as CNN and BBC, which reported the even...read more

The African Women Millennium Initiative on Poverty and Human Rights (AWOMI), recently launched in Nairobi, Kenya. In this article, Yassine Fall, an economist and President of AWOMI, reflects on its significance in the context of the 42nd Africa Day and the Global Call to Action Against Poverty.

Today we commemorate the 42nd anniversary of Africa Day. The Africa Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is using this day to organise a number of events to launch the anti-poverty campa...read more

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