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	<title>Black Looks &#187; African Women</title>
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		<title>Unpacking the layers of Sweden&#8217;s racist-misogynist cake</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/04/unpacking-the-layers-of-swedens-racist-misogynist-cake/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/04/unpacking-the-layers-of-swedens-racist-misogynist-cake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lena Adelsohn-Liljeroth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Makode Linde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stockholm’s Museum of Modern Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sweden]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shailja Patel writing in Pambazuka News responds to the shockingly brutalisation of African women&#8217;s bodies by the Swedish Artists Organisation  &#8211; Lets be clear this action and the response by the artists in question does not stand alone.  It should be studied closely in itself AND  along with the growing acceptance of racism and racist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powerful Ugandan response to Kony 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/03/powerful-ugandan-response-to-kony-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflict Mining/Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DRC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dumb America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E-Activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender Violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Invisible Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IWD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Kony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LRA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saving Africa from Africans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An excellent response to Invisible Children by Ugandan blogger Rosebell and very pertinant for her to speak on this International Women&#8217;s Day.]]></description>
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		<title>#IWD: What does it mean to you</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/03/iwd-what-does-it-mean-to-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/03/iwd-what-does-it-mean-to-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transgender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Women's Day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[International Women&#8217;s Day is here once again and this time I decided to ask recent guest bloggers on Black Looks to write a few sentences on International Women&#8217;s Day and what it means to them.   For everyone it was a day of honouring, celebrating, remembering and recognising the struggles of the past and preparing for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IWD: We the poor women in this rich world</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/03/iwd-we-the-poor-women-in-this-rich-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 05:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rumbidzai Dube</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender Violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence against women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotional abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harmful cultural practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Women's Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physical abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rural women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9224</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[*I would like to sincerely apologise to those who follow my writings for my long absence. Among other things I have spent the past month focused on lobbying the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, (the CEDAW Committee) to, in its review of the state of Zimbabwe, take on board [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IWD: Seek Ye First the Economic Kingdom, Woman</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/03/seek-ye-first-the-economic-kingdom-woman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/03/seek-ye-first-the-economic-kingdom-woman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robtel Pailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Women's Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microcredit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Africa’s first post-independence president, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, urged colonial Africa to “seek ye first the political kingdom, and all else shall be added onto you.” Nkrumah was alluding to the biblical verse, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto.” He would later revise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberia Anti-Homosexuality Bill: An open letter to Leymah Gbowee</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/liberia-anti-homosexuality-bill-an-open-letter-to-leymah-gbowee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/liberia-anti-homosexuality-bill-an-open-letter-to-leymah-gbowee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Homosexuality Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kill Queers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9154</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Piece of the Peace: Leymah, Please Speak Out for Human &#38; Civil Rights for All Liberians Dear Leymah, Your courage is legendary. You are an icon in your own time for peace-building. In answer to a question about what worries you, you said: “The safety of my children and their future. The conduct of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Lifting Liberia to Lifting Liberians: Second Term Challenges for Ellen Johnson Sirleaf</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/from-lifting-liberia-to-lifting-liberians-second-term-challenges-for-ellen-johnson-sirleaf/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/from-lifting-liberia-to-lifting-liberians-second-term-challenges-for-ellen-johnson-sirleaf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robtel Pailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Johnson Sirleaf]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9104</guid>
		<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>Interview with the cast of Pray the Devil Back to Hell</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/interview-with-the-cast-of-pray-the-devil-back-to-hell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/interview-with-the-cast-of-pray-the-devil-back-to-hell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence against women]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Pray the Devil Back to Hell&#8221; Robtel Pailey interviews the cast and members of the production team. The film is available in full on PBS along with four other films in the series &#8220;Women War and Peace&#8220;. Listen here]]></description>
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		<title>A film by Nikyatu Jusu</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/a-film-by-nikyatu-jusu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/a-film-by-nikyatu-jusu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nikyatu Jusu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War Conflict]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9084</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was excited to come across [Via Shadow and Act] &#8220;Say Grace Before Drowning&#8221; a film by Sierra Leonean/American Nikyatu Jusu. The film tells the story about a woman&#8217;s struggle to overcome the insanity of war as she tries to adjust to a life in exile. Whatever positive expectations Grace had about her new life, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the condition of Nigeria by Nigerians….</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/nigeria-by-nigerians/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/nigeria-by-nigerians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uprisings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boko Haram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fuel Subsidy Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goodluck Jonathan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion and the Nigerian state]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9053</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Three excellent insightful articles by Nigerians on Nigeria with my brief comments. “People In The Niger Delta Now Recognize That Jonathan Is A Waste Of Time” – Isaac Osuoka Issac Osuoka is a long time environmental and social justice activist from the Niger Delta and a founding member of the IYC and more recently Social [...]]]></description>
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