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	<title>Black Looks &#187; Africa </title>
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		<title>Interviews with Brenda Hollis &amp; Stephen Rapp, current and former chief prosecutors of the Special Court for Sierra Leone; Charles Taylor&#8217;s defense attorney and daughter &amp; others on the Charles Taylor guilty verdict</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/05/interviews-with-brenda-hollis-charles-taylors-defense-attorney-and-daughter-others-on-the-charles-taylo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/05/interviews-with-brenda-hollis-charles-taylors-defense-attorney-and-daughter-others-on-the-charles-taylo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 12:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robtel Pailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Taylor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ICC]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the recent guilty verdict delivered to Charles Taylor [read my commentary here]  I conducted a number of interviews in the Hague immediately following the verdict.  To listen to the interviews, visit SOAS Radio ]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on Charles Taylor and Justice</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/05/reflections-on-charles-taylor-and-justice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 21:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robtel Pailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflict Mining/Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence against women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Taylor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ICC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much has changed since I covered the first day of Charles Taylor’s trial for Pambazuka News on June 4, 2007. That day, he failed to show up to court, calling the case against him a “farce.” Today, he was in full view, stoic, resolute and somber. As I sat in the public gallery of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Promise of April 12: A Preface to Liberia’s Complicated Biography</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/04/the-promise-of-april-12-a-preface-to-liberias-complicated-biography-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/04/the-promise-of-april-12-a-preface-to-liberias-complicated-biography-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robtel Pailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[April 12, 1980 is often described as the beginning of Liberia’s end. I think of it as the preface to Liberia’s long, complicated biography, the beginning of our awakening. It was a day when our pomp and circumstance left a deafening echo; when we were all exposed, laid bear by the realization that being the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe we need an ECOWAS in Southern Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/04/maybe-we-need-an-ecowas-in-southern-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/04/maybe-we-need-an-ecowas-in-southern-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rumbidzai Dube</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alassana quattara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[andry rajoelina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coups in africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecowas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laurent gbagbo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mali coup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mamadou tandja]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marc ravalomanana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morgan tsvangirayi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Mugabe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SADC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tuareg rebels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unconstituional changes of government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Military governments found their most marked expression on the African continent recording an unprecedented eighty-five violent coups and rebellions from the time of the Egyptian revolution in 1952 until 1998.Seventy-eight of these took place between 1961 and 1997. Undoubtedly, West Africa was the worst affected region and it continues to experience more coups, rebellions and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Talk About Sex</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/04/lets-talk-about-sex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa - Creative Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9291</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you just cringe from this direct affront of a title? Then that might be the hypocrite in you, the sappy morality you probably incurred from a decent upbringing and/or  religious beliefs. I am of a modest upbringing too: a good childhood, a roof over my head and parental censorship, one of which included my mother [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving Africa, Building Egos</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/03/saving-africa-building-egos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/03/saving-africa-building-egos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clitoraid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kony2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raelians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saving Africa]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9284</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published on Pambazuka News 21-03-2012 &#160; I haven&#8217;t watched the Kony 2012 video but I note it has just under 84 million hits in two weeks which is to be expected considering the noise around the Invisible Children project.    I have nothing to add to the plethora of existing criticisms of the video [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving From Open Door to ‘Growth with Development’</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/03/moving-from-open-door-to-growth-with-development/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/03/moving-from-open-door-to-growth-with-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robtel Pailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During President William Tubman’s Open Door Policy, Liberia was averaging double-digit growth rates. Being open for business, however, did not mean growth was open to all. In the 1960s, it was claimed that we had ‘growth without development’—economic activities from large-scale foreign concessions in iron ore, rubber, palm oil, and timber did not improve the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Africa Regional Spotlights &#8211; Getting Somalia Right: Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/03/africa-regional-spotlights-getting-somalia-right-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/03/africa-regional-spotlights-getting-somalia-right-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robtel Pailey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social Justice Links]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second in the series on Somalia in which I discuss the UK conference on Somalia and the implications it might have for the future.  My guests are Quman Jibril, a Somali independent research consultant who has a special interest in international refugee protection and advocacy; Mary Harper, BBC Africa Editor and author of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is next?</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/03/who-is-next/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/03/who-is-next/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rumbidzai Dube</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections in africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[senegalese elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social uprisings]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9277</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is Africa changing? Is the politics changing? Are the people changing and are their demands for democracy and good governance becoming more solid? Are we finally claiming our space as the cradle of mankind and the beginnings of all civilisation? For years African citizens have suffered grave governance deficits at the hands of octogenarians who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Statement on President Johnson Sirleaf by LGBTI Liberians &amp; Allies</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/03/statement-on-president-johnson-sirleaf-by-lgbti-liberians-allies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/03/statement-on-president-johnson-sirleaf-by-lgbti-liberians-allies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Same Sex Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti Homosexuality Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Johnson Sirleaf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBTI Liberia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[March 22, 2012-PRESS STATEMENT / Immediate release from THE COALITION OF LGBTI* LIBERIANS AND ALLIES (CLA)  and THE INTERNATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian President and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, recently expressed in an interview opposition for LGBT rights—especially decriminalization—and was vague about support for increased criminal penalties for [...]]]></description>
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