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	<title>Black Looks &#187; African Women</title>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Johnson Sirleaf]]></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>Interview with the cast of Pray the Devil Back to Hell</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual violence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
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		<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>
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		<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>

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		<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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		<title>Words not necessary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all those who were murdered by bombs in Nigeria today. For my family scattered across the world [US, Ireland, UK, Ghana, Nigeria, Dubai, Pacific Ocean] &#8211; two here, one there, 10 over there, dozens over over there, three far away and most of all my grandson &#8211; I miss you all. Simphiwe Dana featuring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women of Liberia: &#8220;This cannot be our time&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/women-of-liberia-this-cannot-be-our-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nobel Peace Prize]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Liberian president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and activist, Leymah Gbowee  both received their Nobel prize in Oslo. Robtel Pailey like millions of Liberians across the world, celebrated the moment.  But all is not well for women in Liberian women. On the other hand, I couldn’t ignore a somber cloud that hung over the occasion, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poem for Zoliswa</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/poem-for-zoliswas-final-sentencing-hearing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sexual violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Township Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zoliswa Nkonyana]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On December 19th, those guilty of Zoliswa&#8217;s murder will be sentenced. This is a poem for Zoliswa by Elsbeth Engelbrecht © Dear Zoliswa; The undecided meaning of your life were impenetrable on the day your mother turned into a melting grief After so many years Her heart must have been surprised by an uninvited confirmation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For lovers who dance &#8211; Cesaria Evora: RIP</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/for-lovers-who-dance-cesaria-evora-rip/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/for-lovers-who-dance-cesaria-evora-rip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RIP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cesaria Evora]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A voice which spoke to us all &#8211; women, lovers, activists. Sensual and evocative, Cesaria you and your beauty are eternal. Thank you for giving meaning to romance, to dance.]]></description>
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		<title>Of course; they have a lot to hide!</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/of-course-they-have-a-lot-to-hide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/of-course-they-have-a-lot-to-hide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rumbidzai Dube</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence against women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[16 Days Against Violence Against Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[16 days of gender activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender Violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miliartism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Militarism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=8580</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first heard this piece of news I was shocked, then I became angry and then I turned defiant and decided that I would chart my own destiny. The piece of news is that out of the 192 member states of the United Nations, Zimbabwe has decided to declare itself so special, setting itself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women bleed:  An artist responds to rape</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/women-bleed-an-artist-responds-to-rape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Township Stories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isilumo siyaluma (2006-2011) by Zanele Muholi Isilumo siyaluma is a Zulu expression that can be loosely translated as “period pains/ periods pain&#8221;. Additionally, there is an added meaning in the translation that there is something secretive in and about this blood/“period in time.” At one level, my project deals with my own menstrual blood, with [...]]]></description>
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