Pambazuka News 641: Trayvon Martin, Egypt and the quest for human dignity

The authors examine the past four years of the coalition government through diverse critical lenses. There is no sugar coating

Is Africa really rising?

For whom does it rise?

It rises for neoliberal and neo-colonial African governments selling off large tracts of land to outsiders for food or bio-fuel jatropha while their people go hungry and landless

Ask the widows of the Marikana miners ‘is Africa rising’ or those in the Unemployed Peoples Movement, Abahlali, or those living in the black townships of South Africa and across the rest of Africa

Is Africa really rising for the women and yo...read more

Sierra Leone's successive governments since independence have institutionalized bribery and other forms of corruption

The statements created a climate of intolerance, fear, coercion, intimidation and acts of vengeance directed at gays and lesbians

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Egypt is in the midst of a neocolonial reality in which the army is co-opting the 25 January revolution. Liberals, the Brotherhood and the generals are vying for power but power must lie with the people to advance the revolution

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