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20 January 2014 will mark 41 years since the assassination of Amilcar Cabral who hailed from Guinea-Bissau.

We welcome critical and reflective articles; anecdotes, memories and photographs of particular moments of our herstory; poetry, stories, letters, speeches, conversations, diary and journal entries, media reports; mobile text messages (cellphone, facebook, twitter, blogs etc); and creative visioni

We deeply regret to inform you that Leslie Sacks, founder and principal of Leslie Sacks Fine Art and Leslie Sacks Contemporary, passed away on September 26th after a long and courageous battle with cancer.

Jessica and her husband Eric Huntley were already politically engaged in their native Guyana before coming to Britain in the late 1950s.

The end of the Cold War saw Kenya’s leverage as the bulwark against the spread of communism in the East African region wane. Kenya until then was held up as the poster child for stability that comes with being in the Western camp as opposed to being in the Eastern bloc.

A decades-long struggle by various people within the Black Liberation Movement, human rights and prisoner support organizations resulted in the release of Herman Wallace from the Angola prison plantation in Louisiana, US.

I am certain there are others who, like me, received invitations to the recent edition of the Storymoja/Hay Literature Festival in Nairobi, but could not attend. My absence was particularly regrettable, because I had planned to make up for my failure to turn up for the immediate prior edition.

To say that the new state of South Sudan, a country with over 80 percent of its population illiterate and more than 50 percent living below the poverty-line, is facing huge challenges in kick-starting her economic development is no exaggeration.