Pambazuka News 256: Africa Day: Who says slavery is dead?

To: H.E. Professor Alpha Oumar Konare, Chairperson of The Commission of the African Union

We write as representatives of African Civil Society to draw your attention to our serious concerns about the exclusion of organised and independent civil society organisations from last two Summit meetings of the African Union, and the non-organisation of the AU pre-summit CSO meetings. Like the 2005 Tripoli Summit before it, the last Khartoum Summit of the African Union in January 2006 excluded ...read more

Carolina for Kibera, Inc. (CFK) is a 501(c)(3) international non-governmental organization housed at the University Center for International Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Supported by private donations and grants from the Ford Foundation, CFK has established a youth sports association, girls' center, and medical clinic in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya.

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COMMENT AND ANALYSIS:
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- Youth meets wisdom: Amy Niang visits Joseph Ki-Zerbo
- Ndungu Wainaina reflects on the challenges to democracy in Kenya
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Former MP of South Africa’s ruling party, ANC, and well-known gender activist Pregs Govender said the Jacob Zuma rape trial that rocked the country this month raised important questions about the role and responsibility of leaders worldwide. Govender, who spoke at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, last week closely investigated the global context in which the trial against South Africa’s former deputy president Jacob Zuma took place.

Ndungu Wainaina reflects on the succession politics presently waging in Kenya. He argues that the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) rose to power owing to the public desire for broad constitutional reforms in the sphere of governance to guarantee among others, human rights. Sadly, the coalition is now disintegrated and concludes that the task of completing the constitutional review and democratic transition in the country remains with all Kenyans.

The Kenyan state is in transition. The...read more

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