Firoze Manji

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Today, May 25th, is Africa Liberation Day. It is a day to celebrate what has been achieved, and to remind us what is yet to be done.

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This interview, part one of three, was broadcast on April 9, 2011 on AfrobeatRadio on WBAI at WBAI 99.5 FM, New York.

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Transcript

An interview of an African in the French weekly news Politis (9 February 2011) caught our attention. It was titled ‘Emancipation not development’.

AZAD ESSA: There are often protests all over Africa – food riots have been the case over the past two years. What is the story this time? Is it possible to say that the protests in Gabon, Djibouti and those in Sudan (earlier in the month) are linked to the uprisings in Egypt?

In attendance at Dakar’s World Social Forum (WSF), the Kenyan scholar Firoze Manji gives us his thoughts on the renaissance of popular movements in Africa.

Today we publish the 500th issue of the English language edition of Pambazuka News and in a few months, we celebrate our 10th anniversary.

Possibly the most dangerous pamphlet to come out of Nigeria, this is the definitive manual of how to hoodwink citizens or ‘Mugus’ (people who fall for a scam), take the elections and stay in power.