Featured This Week
This week we had planned a special issue of Pambazuka News, in collaboration with the Pamberi Trust, focusing on literature and poetry from Zimbabwe, with Brian Chikwava as guest editor. Then the US bombings happened in Somalia. Consequently, the content of the special issue have been moved to the Comments and Analysis section, and these are accompanied by a podcast and videocast (details below). We are sorry if our Zimbabwe colleagues feel down graded, but they can blame the neo-cons in the US for upstaging them with this invasion.
FEATURES:
- Conflict escalated in the Horn of Africa this week. Harun Hassan writes on how the Somali conflict fits into the far larger narrative of the ‘war on terror’
- Issa Shivji fears that the US will “paint our lands red with blood”
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: SPECIAL ISSUE ON ZIMBABWEAN LITERATURE
- Brian Chikwava introduces the special issue on literature from Zimbabwe
- Stanley Makuwe looks at what it means not to have access to basic services
- Nyevero Muza relives Operation Murambatsvina
- Christopher Mlalazi explores the consequences of dissent in an intolerant society
- Chaltone Tshabangu interrogates the social role of women in traditional African marriages
- Jane Morris argues that writing in Zimbabwe seems to be experiencing an upsurge
PODCASTS: features podcasts and video of Zimbabwean poets
PAN-AFRICAN POSTCARD: Tajudeen rushes to the defence of this 10 theses on leadership
BLOG ROUNDUP: Sokari Ekine looks at African bloggers comments on Sadam Hussein's hanging
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Tens of thousands expected at WSF 2007
CONFLICT AND EMERGENCIES: Links to news on Somalia, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Uganda
HUMAN RIGHTS: UN raises Somalia bombing concerns
WOMEN AND GENDER: The legacy of rape
REFUGEES AND FORCED MIGRATION: Management of internal displacement in Nigeria
ELECTIONS AND GOVERNANCE: International support vital to new DRC government
DEVELOPMENT: Africa might be China’s next imperial frontier
HEALTH AND HIV/AIDS: Breastfeeding and HIV/AIDS
EDUCATION: Africa’s schools are a scandal
ENVIRONMENT: Why Lake Vic Water Levels Are Dropping
MEDIA AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: What you didn't see on television...
NEWS FROM THE DIASPORA: Disaster in Iraq, Haiti, and Jamaica
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