Africa: Occupy Africa

Senegalese musician Baaba Maal has put his voice behind the 99 per cent figure cited as demanding justice in the Occupy Movement. But, the post notes, 'BTW, Maal could have added that Africans have been going on about global Apartheid for a while. If you take the anti-privatization social movements of the early 2000s in South Africa, the role of activists like Dennis Brutus, the various World Social Forum meetings held in Dakar last year and Nairobi before that, the AIDS movement, the films of Abdourahmane Sissako (‘Bamako‘) or the protests against Shell in Nigeria, etcetera.'