http://www.pambazuka.org/images/articles/298/blogs_otherafrica.gif [4] is a new blog from Senegal by Ndeyefatou. Her latest post “Discover Dakar, she posts a photo essay showing places and monuments in the city – one of my favourites is a piece of modern art depicting “Mother Africa”
“The Millenium Door. This was constructed in 2000 on the Corniche of Dakar. It has a ...read more [5]
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[11] http://www.altmuslim.com/perm.php?id=1894_0_24_0_M]Alt.muslim</a> writes on “the growing acceptance for anti-Arab prejudice and discrimination that remains politically correct in the US and the West”. Alt.Muslim is concerned about what he perceives as a growing anti-Arab movement that separates Arab Muslims from non-Arab Muslims and what that elevates the second group over the first – he uses Malcolm X’s analogy of “house niggers” versus “field niggers” with the Arab Muslims being the latter.</p> <p>“America's battle for
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[13] http://ekwuruke.tigblog.org/post/174925?setlangcookie=true]Henry 2015</a> confirms the above plans in his post, African urbanization: Cities without limits. </p> <p>“Johannesburg, South Africa's business capital, is facing similar problems. Over 20% of the city's population are thought to live in shacks and the city cannot build cheap houses fast enough. In places like Alexandra, one of the city's townships, shacks have been built dangerously close to the river and people drown when it swells. Plans are under way to move some people to new houses elsewhere. But what happens when the people do not want to move? That is the problem facing the city in the old central business district. For years it has been kicking out poor people who had moved into the many abandoned buildings, claiming that they are unsafe. But now lawyers acting for 300 people fighting eviction argue that the city must provide alternative accommodation, preferably in the same area.”</p> <p>The movement to kick out the poor in cities such as Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town is a systematic one that has been taking place for years and is a form of apartheid – this time economic which does translate into racial as most poor people are people of colour (in SA terms, Blacks, Indians and coloureds). There are two informal settlements in Durban that are presently fighting the local government against removal after promises to build new houses for them on nearby land was rescinded and sold to local business men for development. </p> <p><img width=
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