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	<title>Black Looks &#187; Nigeria</title>
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		<title>Dogo Nahawa resident&#8217;s testimony on Jos violence</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/dogo-nahawa-residents-testimony-on-jos-violence.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/dogo-nahawa-residents-testimony-on-jos-violence.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jos massacre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria Liberty Forum]]></category>

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A resident of Dogo Nahawa described to Human Rights Watch what happened:
Dogo is a farming village several kilometers from Jos. They came at around 3 a.m. to attack our village. When they arrived, they immediately started shooting, so many of us ran outside to see what happened. Then others attacked us with machetes, killing so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria: Secrets and lies</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/nigeria-secrets-and-lies.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goodluck Jonathan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Umaru Yar'Adua]]></category>

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Last weeks return to Nigeria of President Yar&#8217;Adua in the dead of night has created even more intrigue and political back stabbing than when he was away in Saudi Arabia.   He is back but no one has seen him or at least if they have they are not telling the nation what they saw.   I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dance Analysis and Mis/Rules of Beauty&#8230;A pitch for the African and Indian Ocean choreographic encounters.</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/dance-analysis-and-misrules-of-beauty-a-pitch-for-the-african-and-indian-ocean-choreographic-encounters.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/dance-analysis-and-misrules-of-beauty-a-pitch-for-the-african-and-indian-ocean-choreographic-encounters.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Q&#39;dance</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa - Creative Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemporary Dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qudus Onikeku]]></category>

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Qudus Onikeku &#8220;Q&#8217;dance&#8221; was born in Lagos and is a graduate of National Higher School of Circus arts, France.  As a dancer, acrobat and writer, he is part of a new generation of critical thinkers and creators springing up from the African continent.  I spent 10 days with  Qudus in Lagos in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police murder with impunity on the streets of Nigeria</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/police_murder_with_impunity_on_the_streets_of_nigeria.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/police_murder_with_impunity_on_the_streets_of_nigeria.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boko Haram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights abuses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maiduguri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigerian Army]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=6693</guid>
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Last week Al Jazeera broadcast the executions of unarmed civilians in July last year in Maiduguri,  Borno State.    The context of the murders and a general statement on human rights abuses including extra- judicial executions, torture and beatings &#8211; is provided by Social Justice Advocacy Initiative, whose aim is to expose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The trees no longer hide the wood as Nolly arrives in Holly</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/the_trees_no_longer_hide_the_wood_as_nolly_arrives_in_holly.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/the_trees_no_longer_hide_the_wood_as_nolly_arrives_in_holly.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Podcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hilda Dokubo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nollywood]]></category>

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Nigerian actress Hilda Dokubo has been nominated for best actress in this year’s Oscars for her portrayal of Queen Amina of Zaria. Ms Dokubo [pictured below with her close friends and sistas, the mischievious peace activists Sokari Ekine and Emem Okon] is the first Nigerian to be nominated for the Oscars.

On Tuesday, thousands of Nigerian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seun on Fela</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/seun_on_fela.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afrobeat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fela on Broadway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seun Kuti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Umaru Yar'Adua]]></category>

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After intensive pressure from members of the National Assembly, the media, trade unions, political activists and the Nigerian people, President Yar&#8217;Adua has agreed to hand over the Presidency to his deputy, Goodluck Jonathan.   
I think Fela would have loved this &#8211; the beginnings of &#8220;people power&#8221; in Nigeria  &#8211; here Seun talks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigerian soldiers killing civilians</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/nigerian_soldiers_killing_civilians_.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/nigerian_soldiers_killing_civilians_.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Choba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jos]]></category>
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Nigeria soldiers shooting defenseless civilians Jos, Plateau State one year ago.  Viewer Discretion is Advised &#8211; Sahara Reporters.  
By late tomorrow dozens of Nigerian asylum seekers will be deported from the UK
Why do people flee Nigeria?
In its 2009 World Report, Human Rights Watch maintained that Nigerian state security forces &#8220;continued to commit extrajudicial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Responses to homophobia in Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/01/responses_to_homophobia_in_africa.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/01/responses_to_homophobia_in_africa.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African LGBTI]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill]]></category>

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I&#8217;m writing this post in response to number of articles on the prevalence of homophobia in Africa and to try and give some perspective and historical context.     In the last six months we have seen the expression of homophobia with the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill; the arrest of  gay Malawian couple, Tiwonge Chimbalanga [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigerian bloggers on the fallout from Abdulmutallab</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/01/nigerian_bloggers_on_the_fallout_from_abdulmutallab_.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/01/nigerian_bloggers_on_the_fallout_from_abdulmutallab_.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[al-Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boko Haram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knicker Bomber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Reid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terror Watch List]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab]]></category>

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I have been on a semi hiatus over the past few weeks which is one of the reasons I haven&#8217;t commented on the Nigerian &#8220;knicker bomber&#8221; Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.  The actions of Farouk have dramatic and serious implications for Nigerians in particular and Africans in general traveling to the US.   A number of  Nigerian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TEDxEuston</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/12/tedxeuston.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/12/tedxeuston.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TEDxEuston]]></category>

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Spoke: Some were bold, some italic, some  plain old blank!
Audrey Brown, Onyekachi Wambu, Bryan Pearson, Chika Unigwe, Funmi Iyanda, Bola Olabisi, Lawrence Mbugwa, Yvonne Ike, Nasir El Rufai, Segun Aganga, Remi Adeseun, Nuhu Ribadu
I am discovering in my old age,  albeit reluctantly [not the age, the revelation]  that I DO have some [...]]]></description>
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