EDITORIAL: It’s make or break time for Ugandans as they go to the polls February 23. Charles Onyango-Obbo surveys the landscape
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS:
- What impact has Sierra Leone’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission had on healing the country? A new report examines the issues
- Richard Kamidza writes about how the poor are excluded from trade agreements like Economic Partnership Agreements
- Black History Month in the US must evolve to consider a broader Pan-African historical context, argues Netfa Freeman
- South African local government elections are due next week
LETTERS: Readers tackle Kenya’s campaign against corruption
PAN-AFRICAN POSTCARD: The Ugandan elections are either the end or the beginning of the end for Yoweri Museveni, writes Tajudeen Abdul Raheem
BLOGGING AFRICA: Bloggers on the Ugandan elections, drought in East Africa and more
BOOKS AND ARTS: Nairobi’s first poetry slam takes off
CONFLICTS AND EMERGENCIES: Latest news on DRC, Sudan, Nigeria
REFUGEES AND FORCED MIGRATION: Remittances dwarf aid and investment in Kenya
WOMEN AND GENDER: New pressure needed to scrap gender-biased laws
ELECTIONS AND GOVERNANCE: All the news from Uganda
DEVELOPMENT: Questioning the links between economic growth and poverty reduction
CORRUPTION: Rights body honours 'Whistleblower' Githongo
HEALTH AND HIV/AIDS: A global campaign for the right to health
RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA: Citizenship and xenophobia in Southern Africa
ENVIRONMENT: Citizens space for democratic deliberation on GMOs
MEDIA AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: Ugandan elections website blocked
ADVOCACY AND CAMPAIGNS: Stop forced evictions in Angola
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WIN TICKETS TO UK SCREENING OF TSOTSI

Come to an exclusive preview of this year’s most critically-acclaimed film, Tsotsi, in the Magdalen College Auditorium (Longwall St entrance) in Oxford at 8.00pm on Friday 10 March, a week before the film goes on general release across the UK on 17 March.

ABOUT THE FILM
Set amidst the sprawling, crime-ridden streets of Johannesburg - where survival is the primary objective - this award-winning film traces six days in the life of a ruthless young gang leader, who ends up caring for a baby he accidentally kidnaps during a car-jacking. With the baby’s welfare at stake, he is compelled to confront his own brutal nature and face the consequences of his actions, if he ever wishes to find redemption in his life.

Nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and two BAFTA Awards, Tsotsi is an epic and uplifting drama about the ultimate triumph of love over rage.

Tsotsi is in cinemas nationwide from 17 March (certificate 15). For more information, go to www.tsotsimovie.com

In addition to its Oscar, Bafta and Golden Globe nominations, Tsotsi has already won numerous awards including: Audience Award, LA Art Film Festival; People’s Choice Award, Toronto International Film Festival; Audience Award, Edinburgh International Film Festival; Audience Award, Denver International Film Festival; Greek Parliament Award, Thessaloniki Film Festival.

Screening takes place on Friday 10th March at 8pm
At Magdalen College Auditorium (Longwall St entrance), Oxford
Entry £5 (£3 concessions)
Proceeds to Fahamu’s programme in South Africa

WIN FREE TICKETS!
Email [email protected] with the names of the countries that by 12 February 2006 had ratified the African Union's Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa. Closing date 6 March at 0900 hrs GMT. The first 10 correct entries picked out of a hat will each receive a free ticket.