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		<title>A history to remember: &#8220;Who says being queer is unAfrican?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In “The frightful development of this vice amongst the Natives”: Who says being queer is unAfrican?&#8221; Zackie Achmat traces the role of missionaries and the colonial state in the control and disciple of the African male body. He begins with a brief account of his own imprisonment at the age of 16 where he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012 Elections in Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robtel Pailey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa Elections]]></category>

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		<title>From Lifting Liberia to Lifting Liberians: Second Term Challenges for Ellen Johnson Sirleaf</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robtel Pailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Born in Monrovia, Liberia, Robtel Neajai Pailey is an activist/writer who spent her formative years in Washington, D.C.  Robtel moved to Liberia in July 2007 to work in the Office of the President, Republic of Liberia, as special assistant for communications, where she was engaged in speech writing and managing the Office of the President’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Feminism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Audre Lorde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Lesbian Feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[documentary film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cannot wait for this&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. &#160; Scheduled to make its world premiere in the Panorama Documentary section is Dagmar Shultz&#8217;s Audre Lorde &#8211; The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 is an untold chapter (the Berlin years) of the late writer, poet and activist, Caribbean child of immigrants from Grenada, who died rather young at 58 years old in 1992. Specifically, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Since We Are Afraid of Infinite Silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thoughts on Boko Haram Consider the danger of infinite silence. They come to us in the name of God, for evil has taken the guise of virtue. They say they are speaking a collective language, premised on restating the religious utopia created by their prophet. Their prophet. Clearly, their God and their prophet are imagined. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mbeki on Uganda AHB &amp; Africa&#8217;s selfish political classes</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/mbeki-on-uganda-ahb-africas-selfish-political-classes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Bahati]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thabo Mbeki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Former South African President,Thabo Mbeki has criticised the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill [AHB] in Kampala. Mbeki was speaking in response to a question by academic activist, Sylvia Tamale on what he would say to &#8220;Mr Bahati about the plight of a lesbian woman seeking recognition of her divergent sexual orientation&#8221;. Thank goodness there are still pockets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is This The End of The Nigerian Revolution?</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/is-this-the-end-of-the-nigerian-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/is-this-the-end-of-the-nigerian-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something dies in you. You feel disconnected from your dream of a glorious aftermath. For the first time in your life you felt whole, framed within a bigger picture. You spoke, chanted, demanded. You were a witness, you and a million others. You were a revolutionary. Now things have returned to normal. Normal because there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Needing This Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/needing-this-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fuel Subsidy Nigeria]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[OccupyNigeria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“La résistance est une forme de collaboration” – Albert Camus There are no groupings in my head. I am not being spoken for. No one will speak for me if I do not speak for myself. Tell this to those who have formed groups and begotten labels in my name: I will join you if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See, The Nigerian Revolution Has Begun</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/see-the-nigerian-revolution-has-begun/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/see-the-nigerian-revolution-has-begun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[revolution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You tell me that if I speak I will not be heard. No. I will speak and I will be heard. I am not a writer only by talent. I am a writer because I want to be a witness, a real witness. You recall Edward Said, “There was something wrong with how I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A List of Small Wonders</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/list-of-small-wonders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published on The Mantle I am making a list of small wonders, and it is five months long. In my work as Publisher and Managing Editor of an electronic literary magazine based in Nigeria, I have learned to listen closely for the sound of things to come. It is evident and without doubt that the [...]]]></description>
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