Tweet INVITATION TO ATTEND AN EVENT EXPLORING AFRICA’S FUTURE As foreign countries increasingly become involved in Africa both commercially and militarily, young academics from across the continent debate fundamental questions about the dividend…
On Sunday a dream came true. Organized by Rea Dol, women from Le Phare in Jalouzi and SOPUDEP including volunteer nurses came together to provide the women of Canaan with their first mobile clinic. One hillside community coming to support women from another hillside community and together they climbed mount Canaan or as Jacques Roumain puts it
Tweet From Afro-Europe, a documentary “Hope in my Heart“, on the late Afro-German poet, May Ayim [in German and English] in which she speaks of her life, her poetry and racism in Germany. May Ayim’s father was Ghanian at the…
Tweet Linking news and action | … My heart’s in Accra These values aren’t in conflict so long as you accept a particular theory of change: give people information they need to see what’s wrong in the world, and they…
Tweet It started as a one year project and ended up taking us three years but finally Hakima and I are able to announce the publication of the Queer African Reader published by Fahamu Books. REVIEWS A richness of voices,…
Tweet Sexuality and Social Justice in Africa: Rethinking Homophobia and Forging Resistance by Marc Epprecht The persecution of people in Africa on the basis of their assumed or perceived homosexual orientation has received considerable coverage in the popular media in recent…
Tweet Last Wednesday residents of Camp Bristou in Peguy Ville were forcefully evicted by agents of the state and local police. Bristou is overlooked by Mojub school which is part of SOPUDEP community and many of the women, men…
Tweet The Racial Politics of Atheism | RD10Q | Religion Dispatches In the book I push back against the myth of the accessible American dream and look at the devastating impact that the recession has had on communities of color….
Tweet Recently I passed through the high security zones of Petion-Ville and Delmas on my way to Cite Soleil where policing is limited to the neighbourhood parameters. It’s very possible I was missing something and the police were hiding…
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Tweet The Nigerian SSMB 2013 was passed by the house of representatives on the 30th May. It is now in the hands of President Goodluck Jonathan who must decide whether or not to sign it into law. The…
Tweet Power Politics: Arundhati Roy | A Judgment Call Roy’s Power Politics compiles speeches and essays concisely. And I enjoy the trite style, cogent arguments, and the extra time to think about the passage or due some further researching of…
Tweet Following the death in police custody of camp resident, Civil Meris on April 15th 2013, Jean-Louis Elijah [Elie] Joseph and Esther Pierre of Camp Acra and Adoquin in Delmas 33, along with the camps lawyer, Patrice Florvilus of Defenders…
Tweet This is not a story of great revolutionary heroes nor is it a story about Haitian elections, political parties, NGOs, the UN or even cholera though no doubt many of the residents have suffered from the illness…
Tweet Sexuality and gender taboos challenged by Haifa project | The Electronic Intifada “This project was able to push [the artists] even farther, to touch more taboo questions and to play on sexuality, sexual minorities and gender in a new…
Tweet ‘Des Hommes et Dieux’ [Of Men and Gods"] A documentary on the struggles of Haitian trans women by Anne Lescot and Laurence Magloire
Tweet The Racial Politics of Atheism | RD10Q | Religion Dispatches In the book I push back against the myth of the accessible American dream and look at the devastating impact that the recession has had on communities of color….
Tweet I recently met with Ernest Gaubert of KOURAJ Ayiti which is a grassroots organization with members in Cap Haitian, Gonaïves, St Marc, Port-au-Prince and Jacmel. It began as a social organisation Ami – Ami [friend to friend] in 2010 but…
Tweet What Do I Get For Getting Old? [A beautiful poem by Alice Walker on the joys and freedom of getting old - I followed instructions and supplied my own photo - see Alice Walker's photo here] A Picture Story…
Tweet We will bite our tongues no more | Education | Mail & Guardian Suren Pillay’s recent contribution to the debate on the humanities and social sciences is important because it places the task of “decolonisation” at the centre of…
Tweet From Inkanyiso – Greeted with an everlasting smile by a body that doesn’t seem to age, Phumla Rose Masuku welcomes us to her home. Present is Phumla’s life partner Nombulelo ‘Bulie’ Vimbelela. For a person in her mid 30s Masuku…
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